http://www.njoutdooralliance.org/index.htmlHot News!enwebmaster@njsfsc.orgCopyrights as stated in article2007-11-28T17:00:49-05:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 Tue, 29 Apr 2008 19:47:12 -0400webmaster@njsfsc.orgNone2007-11-28T17:00:49-05:00http://www.njoutdooralliance.org/press/press/room_files/12d2daedf704e9732c82a454500eb810-16.html#unique-entry-id-16http://www.njoutdooralliance.org/press/press/room_files/12d2daedf704e9732c82a454500eb810-16.html#unique-entry-id-16
For the first two months of its existence, the New Jersey Outdoors Alliance (NJOA) was in firefighting mode. Formed in late August, the NJOA scrambled to raise money and muster aid with only the upcoming November elections on its radar screen.

The fledgling political action committee's goal, one it succeeded in attaining, was to help secure the Election Day defeat of two incumbent District 12 state legislators who support a bill sportsmen believe will politicize the state Fish and Game Council.

]]>webmaster@njsfsc.orgNone2007-11-04T10:51:01-05:00http://www.njoutdooralliance.org/press/press/room_files/985a1db26c5e3bf89740a7c17dcd7f45-15.html#unique-entry-id-15http://www.njoutdooralliance.org/press/press/room_files/985a1db26c5e3bf89740a7c17dcd7f45-15.html#unique-entry-id-15New Jersey's second-most-popular hunting season will open Saturday -- small game.

When an estimated 35,000 hunters go out for pheasants, rabbits, quail, foxes and coyotes at 8 a.m. that day, they'll join bowhunters who have been hunting our most popular game, deer, since September. The Division of Fish and Wildlife will stock about 60,000 pheasants at 23 wildlife management areas, including Black River and Berkshire Valley in Morris County, as well as at the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area.

In addition to a hunting license, a $40 pheasant and quail stamp is required to hunt these birds at the state stocked areas, but don't look for any quail up here. About 11,000 will be stocked at Greenwood Forest and Peaslee WMAs in South Jersey. Wherever you hunt, remember there are a lot of people waiting for anyone who does anything wrong, so observe no-trespassing signs and be sure of your targets.

]]>webmaster@njsfsc.orgNone2007-11-08T06:26:14-05:00http://www.njoutdooralliance.org/press/press/room_files/0080c9463d586c1799a37b5483825fb0-14.html#unique-entry-id-14http://www.njoutdooralliance.org/press/press/room_files/0080c9463d586c1799a37b5483825fb0-14.html#unique-entry-id-14Thank goodness the election is over. The signs are gone from the lawns and poles, the ranting and ravings on the radio and TV have ceased, and there are no more mailings or letters under the doors that tell us how to vote. Maybe we can get down to some serious living.

The election was favorable to sportsmen in New Jersey. The two sponsors of the bills that would have gutted the N.J. Fish and Game Council and thus killing fishing and hunting in our state, Senator Karcher and Assemblyman Panter, both of District 12 in Monmouth County, were defeated in their bid for re-election, hopefully by sportsmen who finally shook off their apathy.

According to Anthony Mauro of the New Jersey Outdoor Alliance, those who replaced them are favorable to sportsmen's' wishes.

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Unhappy with that mission, animal activists are lobbying to sharply alter the council's du ties and balance of power.

Unfortunately, the legislation proposed to make these changes goes too far. Currently, most council members are re quired to be sportsmen who represent each section of the state. A bill by Assemblyman Michael Panter and Sen. Ellen Karcher, both Monmouth County Democrats, would authorize the governor to name seven people who merely have an interest in conservation of fish and wildlife.
]]>webmaster@njsfsc.orgNone2007-10-29T21:22:55-04:00http://www.njoutdooralliance.org/press/press/room_files/00e7e38a544c89f0af10667adb1179bd-12.html#unique-entry-id-12http://www.njoutdooralliance.org/press/press/room_files/00e7e38a544c89f0af10667adb1179bd-12.html#unique-entry-id-12800 ATTEND: Hunters, fishermen, families
Posted by the Asbury Park Press on 10/29/07
BY SAMETTA M. THOMPSON
STAFF WRITER

MILLSTONE TOWNSHIP - Charles "Chuck" Lindstrom trekked to the Clarksburg Inn on Sunday to take part in a rally opposing two bills that would change the scope and political climate of the state's Fish and Game Council.

"I can't take my grandson fishing if these bills are passed," said Lindstrom, an avid hunter and fisherman from Jackson. "The Fish and Game Council members are doing an excellent job, and none of this stuff should be changed. Why fix it if it's not broken?"

The bills under question are Assembly bill A3275, and its Senate companion, S2041, which were introduced about a year ago in Trenton by Assemblyman Michael J. Panter and Sen. Ellen Karcher, both D-Monmouth. The bills would reduce the number of members on the Fish and Game Council from 11 to 7.

]]>webmaster@njsfsc.orgNone2007-10-19T08:13:56-04:00http://www.njoutdooralliance.org/press/press/room_files/f3e272c7dc63704ca1711a54fbbe1788-11.html#unique-entry-id-11http://www.njoutdooralliance.org/press/press/room_files/f3e272c7dc63704ca1711a54fbbe1788-11.html#unique-entry-id-11Daniel Suarez can't understand the thinking.

"Do you have any idea how many billions of dollars they would cost the state?" he asked incredulously.

"They" would be Assemblyman Michael Panter and state Sen. Ellen Karcher, the sponsors of matching bills in the state Assembly and Senate that would alter the state's Fish and Game Council.

While much has been made of the changes those bills” A3275 and S2041” would make to who actually sits on the council, there is a more insidious change deeper in the bills that is, in some ways, more of a threat than just changing who sits on the councils.

]]>webmaster@njsfsc.orgNone2007-10-14T19:08:40-04:00http://www.njoutdooralliance.org/press/press/room_files/f5aa83afe124623a67ee2ad5d0b68a7a-10.html#unique-entry-id-10http://www.njoutdooralliance.org/press/press/room_files/f5aa83afe124623a67ee2ad5d0b68a7a-10.html#unique-entry-id-10
The New Jersey Outdoor Alliance (NJOA), which was formed in August, is a political action committee (PAC) focused on helping elect political candidates who are supportive of the outdoor pursuits.

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Perhaps, but that has been said before, with little or no action on the part of the state s hundreds of thousands of hunters and fishermen when threatened with legislation that could deep six their favorite activities.

Well, finally, there seems to be an organization that realizes that it not is too late to act when the barbarians are at the gate or the bombers are swarming overhead, and is doing the most as far as activism for sportsmen that I have seen in nearly 40 years of outdoor writing.

]]>webmaster@njsfsc.orgNone2007-10-11T10:07:19-04:00http://www.njoutdooralliance.org/press/press/room_files/c01035ba904895e33f97f2136d76d408-8.html#unique-entry-id-8http://www.njoutdooralliance.org/press/press/room_files/c01035ba904895e33f97f2136d76d408-8.html#unique-entry-id-8Bridgeton News

In the past there has been much concern for the lack of support by sportsmen when meetings about laws and regulations pertaining to them were held. It certainly looks as if the pendulum is now swinging the other way -- if last Tuesday's meeting in Mullica Hill is any indication.

At the Grange Hall, there was a standing-room-only crowd, augmented by a large gathering that had to remain outside. The parking lot of the nearby Harrison House was filled with sportsmen's cars and trucks as well. Those assembled outside listened to the program as it was piped to them and also peered through the windows of the hall. ]]>webmaster@njsfsc.orgNone2007-10-10T07:48:52-04:00http://www.njoutdooralliance.org/press/press/room_files/f16ff790527ee5ce8b5554605c31edfb-7.html#unique-entry-id-7http://www.njoutdooralliance.org/press/press/room_files/f16ff790527ee5ce8b5554605c31edfb-7.html#unique-entry-id-7
By RICHARD PEARSALL
Courier-Post Staff

HARRISON
Upward of 300 men crammed the Mullica Hill Grange on Tuesday evening, while an additional 200 or so crowded around doors and windows to listen to the proceedings within.

Hunters and fishermen all, they were there to demonstrate that they are "mad as hell" at their treatment by Trenton and don't plan to take it anymore.

"For a long time we've waited on the sidelines," said Ed Markowski, president of the N.J. Federation of Sportsmen's Clubs. "We no longer have that luxury."

"Ladies and gentlemen," rally organizer Ed Cuneo said at the start of the meeting, "you are making N.J. sportsmen's history tonight."

The sportsmen contend they are under attack from animal-rights activists. They pointed with particular ire Tuesday night at legislation that would change the way hunting and fishing in the state are regulated.

That bill, sponsored by two Monmouth County Democrats, would change the way members of the state's Fish and Game Council are appointed, depriving sportsmen of the control they are now guaranteed.

]]>webmaster@njsfsc.orgNone2007-10-10T07:47:39-04:00http://www.njoutdooralliance.org/press/press/room_files/3219585d10aea3a3ed9f46fa78020fa3-6.html#unique-entry-id-6http://www.njoutdooralliance.org/press/press/room_files/3219585d10aea3a3ed9f46fa78020fa3-6.html#unique-entry-id-6lmurray@sjnewsco.com
HARRISON TWP. A room full of camouflage hunting hats and boating club T-shirts filled every room at Mullica Hill's Grange Hall Tuesday night as sportsmen from across the state rallied in protest of two bills that would change the makeup of New Jersey's Fish and Game Council.

"It is a bald-face assault on the people in this state who fish, hunt and trap," Anthony Mauro of the New Jersey Outdoor Alliance said. "It's an attempt to take that right away."

The bills, A-3275 and S-2041, call for members of the council to be chosen based on their "knowledge of and interest in the conservation of fish and wildlife" without consideration of their address.

]]>webmaster@njsfsc.orgNone2007-09-19T14:40:46-04:00http://www.njoutdooralliance.org/press/press/room_files/8614fbc51501f8b9da6dcc68c361efa8-5.html#unique-entry-id-5http://www.njoutdooralliance.org/press/press/room_files/8614fbc51501f8b9da6dcc68c361efa8-5.html#unique-entry-id-5
TRENTON — Hunters and anglers across the state are up in arms over a proposal in the legislature they say will stack the state Fish and Game Council with anti-hunting and anti-fishing activists.

The proposal, they say, would make a profound shift in state law with devastating impact on hunters, trappers and fresh water anglers and the businesses that they support.

Assembly Bill A-3275 was released from the Assembly Environment and Solid Waste Committee on June 14. Along with its companion Senate bill, S-2041, it would change the composition of the council to seven members appointed by the governor with the advice and consent of the Senate, without regard to geographic representation.

]]>webmaster@njsfsc.orgNone2007-09-18T07:23:45-04:00http://www.njoutdooralliance.org/press/press/room_files/504d841fa4444e31c80876691221ceb1-4.html#unique-entry-id-4http://www.njoutdooralliance.org/press/press/room_files/504d841fa4444e31c80876691221ceb1-4.html#unique-entry-id-4Posted from the Daily Record newsroom

Last week's bear attack on a sheep in Denville was considered unusual by all involved. And it probably was.

Here are the facts: A 300-pound bear scaled a wire fence and dragged a large sheep into the woods. The sheep was badly injured and had to be destroyed. The bear was found and killed, which is standard procedure for a problem bear.

The farmer, Jimmy DiGuiseppi, made his point this way: "If you lose a sheep or two, you buy another one. (But) we have an awful lot of children up here. That's the thing that disturbs me."
]]>webmaster@njsfsc.orgNone2007-09-15T16:07:03-04:00http://www.njoutdooralliance.org/press/press/room_files/01139cf2d1a15bf993644d34274ecd0e-3.html#unique-entry-id-3http://www.njoutdooralliance.org/press/press/room_files/01139cf2d1a15bf993644d34274ecd0e-3.html#unique-entry-id-3
BY ROB JENNINGS
DAILY RECORD
Saturday, September 15, 2007


DENVILLE -- Police shot and killed a 300-pound black bear on Friday morning after it scaled a wire fence, invaded a 15-acre farm and dragged a large sheep into nearby woods, said township Lt. Christopher Wagner.

The 100-pound sheep survived the grisly attack but was badly injured and had to be put down by police, Wagner said.

Jimmy DiGuiseppi of 6 Wood Road, a self-described "hobby farmer," said he awakened on Friday to find the bear "tearing the sheep apart." His seven other sheep were unhurt.

]]>webmaster@njsfsc.orgNone2007-09-13T06:34:21-04:00http://www.njoutdooralliance.org/press/press/room_files/528164bb4d5e9379e295c25759bde9ed-2.html#unique-entry-id-2http://www.njoutdooralliance.org/press/press/room_files/528164bb4d5e9379e295c25759bde9ed-2.html#unique-entry-id-2Asbury Park Press on 09/13/07
BY ANTHONY P. MAURO SR.

Instituting a law to prohibit fishing would be unimaginable only a generation ago. Fishing is so intertwined in New Jersey's recreational and economic past and present that it is hard to imagine living without it. Sadly, Monmouth County politicians may outlaw this essential part of our outdoor heritage.

Legislative bills A-3275 and S-2041 have been introduced by Assemblyman Michael Panter and Sen. Ellen Karcher, both D-Monmouth. These bills will eliminate freshwater fishing, hunting and trapping in New Jersey. It will be achieved by changing the structure of the Fish and Game Council.

The council now includes 11 people knowledgeable about conservation principles and wildlife management techniques. Represented are farmers, sportsmen, a person with an understanding of land management and soil conservation, and the chairman of the Endangered and Nongame Species Advisory Committee. To ensure the integrity of the selection process, people are recommended by the state agricultural convention and the state Federation of Sportsman's Clubs to the governor.

]]>webmaster@njsfsc.orgNone2007-08-29T07:11:19-04:00http://www.njoutdooralliance.org/press/press/room_files/b0f9e725e8188eb7efad58715f507698-1.html#unique-entry-id-1http://www.njoutdooralliance.org/press/press/room_files/b0f9e725e8188eb7efad58715f507698-1.html#unique-entry-id-1 (August 29, 2007)


A newly formed political action committee is working to put its money where its mouth is in fighting a bill it calls an outright assault on the rights of the state's hunters.

The New Jersey Outdoor Alliance bills itself as the first major political action committee dedicated to electing "outdoor minded" candidates to office in the state.

"In a mostly urban state like New Jersey, people begin to lose touch with their dependence on ecology," said Anthony Mauro, NJOA's Chairman. "It allows animal activists to convince people that hunting, fishing and trapping are bad, when in reality these things provide an important ecological balance."
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For the Star-Ledger

There is irony in the fact that, because Anthony Mauro lives in Colts Neck, he is represented in the state by Assemblyman Michael Panter.

Mauro is an avid sportsman, an author and chairman of New Jersey's first pro-sportsmen political action committee (PAC), the newly formed New Jersey Outdoor Alliance. Panter, a Shrewsbury Democrat, is the prime sponsor of a bill (A-3275) that would significantly change the form and function of the state Fish and Game Council.

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