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asked. “I say let the people shoot the deer and use the meat. ”
Mr. Henry countered that orchardists could allow hunters on theiy property to use the tickets to harvest excess deer.
Tickets are non-transferable, issued to orchardists and farmers and by law, shared only with household members and tenants on the orchard or farm, Mr. Estes explained.
A higher bag limit will attract even more hunters to the county, maintained Supervisor Nelson Lane, whose Stonewall-Hawthome District is particularly plagued by trespassing, hunting on posted property and illegal hunting from roads.
He recalled that a hunter was recently shot and killed in a hunting accident here. "And I understand that no one’s even going to be charged,” he criticized. “That will be showing people that if you don’t like someone, all you have to do is go out in hunting season, track him and shoot him.”
Enforcement of existing game laws is difficult when the county is patrolled by only a single warden, Mr. Lane said. He noted that game wardens, worked with other law enforcement officers on a drug investigation and arrest in neighboring Orange County. If wardens assist the state police and sheriffs departments with non-game laws, then “I don’t see why it can’t go the other way,” Mr. Lane said, calling on those two departments to enforce game laws.
He pointed to a recent enforcement offensive here as a model of effective control. According to Supervisor Lane, the game commission set up a “dummy” deer along a road in Stonewall-Hawthorne District. Every vehicle which passed the stuffed animal fired, he noted, reporting further that the violations were recorded on video camera. According to Mr. Lane, 25 citations for game law violations resulted from this dummy deer “sting.” “We don’t have a problem with deer in my district destroying fruit trees; we have a problem with hunters!”
(Game Warden Jim Bankston confirmed that a decoy deer was set up on three county roads during the hunting season which ended Monday, resulting in “somewhere around” the number of citations reported by Supervisor Lane. He declined to release further information, noting that charges are pending against a number of individuals.)
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