Hunting On Sundays In Pennsylvania

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HB 779 SUNDAY HUNTING

There are 3 million hikers in Pennsylvania, plus 621,000 backpackers. Add the 1.4 million wildlife-watchers who enjoy our forests and you have a pretty good resident constituency of forest-users. That's not even counting the many others who visit our state to hike, go birding and stroll on our thousands of miles of footpaths.

The economic value of those numbers far outweigh that of our one million hunters.
But we're not as vocal as the hunters. This has to change, or the woods won't be as quiet anymore on Sundays.

HB 779 was introduced on March 19.
It would repeal the prohibition on Sunday Hunting.

Please contact your legislator by going to http://www.legis.state.pa.us/

1 ] Type your zip code in the upper-right hand corner
2 ] It will then provide the name, address, e-mail and phone number of your State Representative and Senator.

Tell him or her what you think about Sunday Hunting. Make it well-thought out and original. You might mention that hikers maintain the trails (KTA provides over 30,000 hours of trail maintenance per year - much of that on Sundays).
In addition Sunday is the only day that many of us have to enjoy the trails.

Oh, and be sure to mention that you're a constituent - and you vote. You might also specifically request that your representative keep you updated on the bill.

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You can see HB 779 at http://www.legis.state.pa.us/CFDOCS/Legis/PN/Public/btCheck.cfm?txtType=...

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