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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BBQBluesMan" data-source="post: 245360" data-attributes="member: 1007">TTT.. I haven't posted in awhile, but still like to come check things out. I am glad some people have taken the initiative to post information about this bill. Thanks Mark and Nick. Folks, the committee hearing is this Friday (1/25) at 8:30 am. If you value our ND hunting heritage, please take the 10 minutes it takes to send a short email to the Senate Ag Committee, your local Representatives, and hell the rest of the Senate whom may very well be voting on SB 2315. Come to the hearing if you are able to make it, and consider testifying. This bill won’t stop criminals from trespassing and poaching, but will be detrimental to the law abiding sportsmen and women whom love to hunt North Dakota (both residents and non-residents). Let’s enforce existing laws and increase the fines and penalties for trespassing and poaching. Let’s not hinder access to a large amount of land.In your email, be courteous. Here are some potential talking points:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">This bill will seriously restrict hunting access and reduce hunter numbers, therefore reducing funding for Game and Fish Department, spending in small towns. and spending in big towns (Scheels)</li> </ul><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">This bill will put much more pressure on public lands and PLOTS, degrading, and leave wildlife populations unmanaged on posted private land, creating depredation problems.</li> </ul><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">NDWF and the Game and Fish Department provide free “Ask Before You Enter” signs to landowners.</li> </ul><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">While not dismissing the problems landowners have with hunting on posted land, it is a relatively small issue. Approximate 106 violations per year for over 100,000 hunters over a 4+ month hunting season.</li> </ul><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">This bill will not fix the problem!  If unethical people hunted on posted land without permission, will there be less trespassing if no land is posted?</li> </ul><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Under this bill, if passed; landowner or renter will still have to file a complaint, appear in court, the State's attorney may or may not decide there is enough evidence to pursue, or may not have the time or want to prosecute no trespass if he/she has more serious cases.</li> </ul><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">This bill takes a property rights away from those landowners who do not post.</li> </ul></blockquote>

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