Post by JC on Sept 30, 2011 17:39:07 GMT -5
Be quiet. Be still long enough, and your camera-phone can capture one of the more breathtaking natives of Enterprise South Industrial Park, mere yards from the outer gravel road that rings the 2800 acres of nature park within it.
Joan Farrell calls that too close, to dodge too many arrows. "Eighty hunters on this small an acreage will be running into each other," Farrell tells Hamilton County Commissioners.
"With all their gear and ATV's. An observer of December's hunt calls it chaotic!"
The Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency has granted 160 permits, 80 for each of the two-day hunts scheduled for October 10-11 and 24-25, according to spokesman Ben Layton. Each hunter will be allowed to take two deer, but the first must be a doe. They also may take one wild turkey.
"In past years, they've made only a quarter to half of the quota," Layton says. "If they take 100 doe, we'll get what we tried to accomplish."
The issue, Farrell says, and Layton admits; nobody knows how many deer call Enterprise South home.
"Before any future hunt, TWRA should be required to provide the county with an accurate verifiable head count and accurate optimal head count," Farrell says.
"This hunt has been going on for a number of years,"Hamilton County Mayor Jim Coppinger says. "There is an agreement in place."
The contract has been in place since 2005.
Joan Farrell calls that too close, to dodge too many arrows. "Eighty hunters on this small an acreage will be running into each other," Farrell tells Hamilton County Commissioners.
"With all their gear and ATV's. An observer of December's hunt calls it chaotic!"
The Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency has granted 160 permits, 80 for each of the two-day hunts scheduled for October 10-11 and 24-25, according to spokesman Ben Layton. Each hunter will be allowed to take two deer, but the first must be a doe. They also may take one wild turkey.
"In past years, they've made only a quarter to half of the quota," Layton says. "If they take 100 doe, we'll get what we tried to accomplish."
The issue, Farrell says, and Layton admits; nobody knows how many deer call Enterprise South home.
"Before any future hunt, TWRA should be required to provide the county with an accurate verifiable head count and accurate optimal head count," Farrell says.
"This hunt has been going on for a number of years,"Hamilton County Mayor Jim Coppinger says. "There is an agreement in place."
The contract has been in place since 2005.
Read more: www.wrcbtv.com/story/15582393/neighbors-seek-to-block-enterprise-south-deer-turkey-hunts?clienttype=printable
The only thing worse then damn idiots are organized damn idiots.
People have been hunting these grounds since, when, the early 80s? But non of these concerns have ever been a problem in all those years. But, now all of the sudden a bunch of idiots are worried.
