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We need continued calls to the Governor’s office (304- 558-2000 or 1.888.438.2731) requesting a veto of Senate Bill 237 (transfers regulation of deer farms to Department of Agriculture).

If you need to understand why this is important, look at what has happened in other states.

And view http://noaccidentfilm.com

Please continue to get friends and family to call the Governor requesting a veto of Senate Bill 237. The Governor has until Saturday to make his decision. We need calls every day until he keeps his word about not supporting the transfer of captive cervid regulation away from the Division of Natural Resources.

House Bill 2658 – On House Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee agenda tomorrow (Tuesday) at 10:00AM. This will remove the requirement that nontraditional agriculture animals (deer) will not have to be slaughtered in an inspected facility.

Calls are needed to Chairman Evans, 304-340-3399 Tuesday before 10:00am to table this bill. Also need to call every member on this committee and tell them you do not support this legislation.

CROSSBOWS:

House Bill 2144 - Continue to make calls to the Judiciary Chair, John Shott (304) 340-3252, asking him to not put House Bill 2144 on the agenda. This bill completely changes the definition of a bow to include a crossbow. Information was shared with all Committee members which illustrates why a crossbow is not a bow.

Senate Bill 278 will allow crossbows to be used in big game firearms seasons and require the DNR Director to establish a separate season for crossbow hunting and identifying the wildlife species that can be hunted with a crossbow. This puts the crossbow where it belongs (own season).

If you support this bill, calls can be made to Senate Judiciary Chair, Charles Trump, (304) 357-7980, asking him to pass this without amendments for a full Senate vote.

The House Ag and Natural Resources Committee passed this bill out of committee today. The members listened to several incorrect statements and on the advice of the Chair "to get this out of their committee and let it be fixed in Health and Human Resources committee" it passed. That is not an exact quote but was pretty darn close to what was stated.

I guess this the truest example of "passing the buck".

Despite what the committee was told, there is a definition of "non traditional agricultural products" and it includes more than "rabbits". It includes captive deer as defined in Article 29 of the captive cervid act that the House passed.

Folks, we have a serious problem when our elected officials don't know what they are passing.

Calls should be made to Health and Human Resources Chair, Joe Ellington (304) 340-3269 asking him to kill this bill before it not only becomes a huge public health issue (venison slaughtered in noninspected facilities) and sold for human consumption, but also the possibility for this to create that black market for whitetail venison. With no one watching, whose to say a few or more wild deer wouldn't be mixed in with the slaughter.

The link to that bill is in the above post.

I sincerely hope the news or gazette picks up on this story and gets this issue in the public's eye.

Fresh road kill deer butchered on the hood of an F-150 at your local grocery store for only 4.99 a pound.

Instead of the local methheads taking a chance of getting caught robbing a 7-11 they can now go spotlight a few deer and sell them to the local uninspected, no record keeping slaughterhouse.