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Hoodlum hunters’
Enforcing game laws is at best a difficult proposition — especially in rural areas. One game warden simply can’t watch every hunter and fisherman in Rappahannock County. Fortunately, he doesn’t need to; most are decent, law-abiding sportsmen. But, the few who play outside the rules create serious problems.
That’s especially true of those who hunt illegally during deer season. They shoot from state roads, run dogs across posted property and generally have little respect for authority or safety.
Dissallowing the use of dogs for deer hunting may be a step in the right direction. The game commission prohibits hunting with dogs west of the Blue Ridge. But at a hearing Friday in Richmond a commission member told Supervisors Nelson Lane it’s up to counties east of the mountains to regulate dog use in hunting.
Loudoun County, for example, prohibits deer hunters to use dogs.
If localities indeed have authority to regulate hunting with dogs — and it deserves thorough investigation — Mr. Lane said he’s re-' ady to consider a local ordinance. It wouldn’t solve all the problems associated with hunting season here, but such an ordiance could be a step in the right direction. It would take away a favorite weapon of the “hoodlum hunter,” who unleashes his canines without regard for property lines or time of day and who terrorizes local folks who deserve some peace and quiet — even during hunting season.
Season of rebirth
We knew it eventually would happen. Mother Nature had tea1 sed us with unseasonably warm days among periods of winter chill. Robins arrived ahead of schedule and daffodils poked through the frost.
And finally, spring officially arrived last Thursday. This week we’re sure of the change and we gladly stow down parkas and ash buckets in favor of windbreakers and rototillers.
With the boys of summer taking to the diamonds, there is but another reason to smile about the season of rebirth.
—-:Quotable
... Frosts are slain and flowers begotten,
And in green underwood and cover
Blossom by blossom the spring begins.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
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