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Hunting At Night Conducted by WFF #612977
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I just received my July issue of AON magazine. I thumb through and what do I find? Beginning on page 28, there is an article describing how employees of the WFF are hunting and killing does at night, with the aid of spotlights. There is even a picture of this occuring in the magazine. They are doing this in the name of finding out when the does have been bred in a n effort to extend deer seasons in more counties.

Is this legal?

Section 9-11-231 allows for the collection of protected wild animals for scientific purposes by obtaining a permit from the Commisioner, but it doesn't say that the other game laws may be broken to do this.


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Re: Hunting At Night Conducted by WFF [Re: Jack Fate] #612978
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I'm sure it's okay, because they only shot does mad

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Re: Hunting At Night Conducted by WFF [Re: Jack Fate] #612983
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People would be shocked at how many were killed by hired guns last Summer at Bellefonte Nuclear Plant. Won't let them be hunted in season, but will hire gunslingers to shoot them in summer. These deer were killed for crowd control, not fetal studies.

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Re: Hunting At Night Conducted by WFF [Re: Jack Fate] #612984
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USDA holds "Scientific collection" permits that they use to shoot deer at night to reduce population numbers on specific properties. They do this without notifing the Montgomery DCNR office or the local GWs. Since when does population reduction and scientific collection mean the same thing??? Since when do we allow the Federal government (USDA) to kill Alabama resident game (DEER) at the request of private enterprises with the knowledge of DCNR???


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Re: Hunting At Night Conducted by WFF [Re: Jack Fate] #612986
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Game Warden and biologist have been doing this around here on private farms that are on state regulated management programs for a while around here. I know of them doing at least 10-15 years ago.


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Re: Hunting At Night Conducted by WFF [Re: BhamFred] #612991
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Originally Posted By: BhamFred
USDA holds "Scientific collection" permits that they use to shoot deer at night to reduce population numbers on specific properties. They do this without notifing the Montgomery DCNR office or the local GWs. Since when does population reduction and scientific collection mean the same thing??? Since when do we allow the Federal government (USDA) to kill Alabama resident game (DEER) at the request of private enterprises with the knowledge of DCNR???


Wow! I had not heard of this going on either. I don't think scientific collection has anything to do with population control either.

Question though..how did they get the permit if they haven't notified Montgomery? Or did they just permit themselves?


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Re: Hunting At Night Conducted by WFF [Re: REALTREEZ71] #612992
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Originally Posted By: REALTREEZ71
Game Warden and biologist have been doing this around here on private farms that are on state regulated management programs for a while around here. I know of them doing at least 10-15 years ago.


Doesn't make it legal though.


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Re: Hunting At Night Conducted by WFF [Re: Jack Fate] #613050
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It's perfectly legal............till Mr Green Jeans shows up laugh


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Re: Hunting At Night Conducted by WFF [Re: Jack Fate] #613060
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Code of Alabama 1975

Section 9-2-6
Commissioner of Conservation and Natural Resources - Powers and duties generally.

All functions and duties of the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources shall be exercised by the Commissioner of Conservation and Natural Resources acting by himself or by and through such administrative divisions or such officers or employees as he may designate. The Commissioner of Conservation and Natural Resources shall have all power and authority necessary or convenient to carry out the functions and duties of the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources. In the performance of such functions and duties and in the exercise of such powers and authorities, the Commissioner of Conservation and Natural Resources and all other officers and employees of the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources shall, however, be subject to all legal restrictions, limitations and conditions and penalties, civil and criminal, with respect to the performance of such functions and duties and the exercise of such powers and authorities.

(Acts 1939, No. 162, p. 255, § 7; Code 1940, T. 8, §6.)

Re: Hunting At Night Conducted by WFF [Re: Jack Fate] #613076
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How in the heck are they going to get conception dates without killing does?
They have a key to our place and we hope they get the 10 does for a study from us or another place or 2.
Pretty hard to get this information based on a guess.


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How do y'all think some fetal conception studies are done? Magic? Vaginal probes and sonar down at the Whitetail Clinic?

Been going on a long time throughout the state.

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Re: Hunting At Night Conducted by WFF [Re: Gotcha1] #613102
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Originally Posted By: Gotcha1
How in the heck are they going to get conception dates without killing does?
They have a key to our place and we hope they get the 10 does for a study from us or another place or 2.
Pretty hard to get this information based on a guess.


If you want to do something that is against the law, you either get the law changed to allow it or you violate the law and become a criminal.

How hard is that to understand?

Re: Hunting At Night Conducted by WFF [Re: Clem] #613106
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Originally Posted By: Clem
How do y'all think some fetal conception studies are done? Magic? Vaginal probes and sonar down at the Whitetail Clinic?

Been going on a long time throughout the state.


We expect them to be done within the law like everything else.

Nothing magic about it.

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Originally Posted By: REALTREEZ71
Game Warden and biologist have been doing this around here on private farms that are on state regulated management programs for a while around here. I know of them doing at least 10-15 years ago.


They did this as early as the early 80's in and around Prattville.

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Perhaps they are within the law and y'all are making a deal about something you don't know about but think you do.

Or maybe they're just blatantly violating the law agin' like the commissioner and CAB and others have done for 40 years and no one's said boo! Oh my!

C'mon. Y'all get some common sense.


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Re: Hunting At Night Conducted by WFF [Re: Clem] #613131
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Originally Posted By: Clem
How do y'all think some fetal conception studies are done? Magic? Vaginal probes and sonar down at the Whitetail Clinic?



Vaginal probes, Whitetail clinic laugh



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Re: Hunting At Night Conducted by WFF [Re: Clem] #613133
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Originally Posted By: Clem
Perhaps they are within the law and y'all are making a deal about something you don't know about but think you do.

Or maybe they're just blatantly violating the law agin' like the commissioner and CAB and others have done for 40 years and no one's said boo! Oh my!

C'mon. Y'all get some common sense.


Common sense tells me that any time a government agency is allowed to thumb its nose at the limits set for it by law we have problems that will only get worse.

The DCNR was not delegated authority to micro-manage any certain wildlife species. It is allowed by law to manage wildlife in designated wildlife management areas, and to implement special rules necessary or desirable for such management.

The attempts at micro-management of deer herds statewide by the DCNR is a recent divergence from its defined functions and duties in the law:


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Fixing of boundaries; promulgation of special rules and regulations for management and protection of areas.

The Commissioner of Conservation and Natural Resources is authorized to fix such boundaries and promulgate such special rules and regulations for the management and protection of wildlife management areas as may be necessary or desirable. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, he is specifically authorized to set up for any wildlife management area special open and closed seasons on game animals, game birds and fish, to establish the amount of the fees to be collected for the privilege of hunting and fishing during any open season, to collect such fees and to authorize their collection by designated employees of the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, to require the possession of a special permit when hunting or fishing within wildlife management areas, and to limit the number of permits to be issued during any open season to such members as he may direct.

(Acts 1939, No. 668, p. 1061, §2; Code 1940, T. 8, §110(2).)





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"An administrative interpretation of long standing is normally entitled to favorable consideration by the courts, but `... this rule of construction is to be laid aside where it seems reasonably certain that the administrator's interpretation has been erroneous and that a different construction is required by the language of the statute.'Boswell v. Abex Corp., 294 Ala. 334, 336, 317 So. 2d 317, 318 (1975)."

Sand Mountain Bank v. Albertville Nat'l Bank, 442 So. 2d 13, 18 (Ala. 1983). In this case, the language of the applicable statutory provisions conflicts with Lambert's implicit interpretation of those provisions. Therefore, the language of the statutory provisions must prevail. Id.


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Originally Posted By: Jack Fate
Originally Posted By: REALTREEZ71
Game Warden and biologist have been doing this around here on private farms that are on state regulated management programs for a while around here. I know of them doing at least 10-15 years ago.


Doesn't make it legal though.




As quoted above:

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The exceptions that were written by our legislature are contained within the statute itself.

Where is the exception to hunt alligators at night?

Where is the constitutional amendment that authorizes a lottery to determine who may hunt alligators at night?

Where does the statute define legal hunting hours as "daylight hours only" as stated in the Commissioner's publications?


Code of Alabama 1975

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Section 9-11-235
Taking, etc., of protected birds or animals, raccoons or opossums at night; nighttime hunting of foxes with dogs.

It shall be unlawful, except as to trapping as otherwise provided by law, for a person to take, capture, or kill, or attempt to take, capture, or kill any bird or animal protected by the laws of this state between sunset and daylight of the following day, except that the Commissioner of Conservation and Natural Resources may by a duly promulgated regulation, allow the taking, catching, or killing of raccoons and opossums between sunset and daylight in any county or counties within the state. In any county where the taking, catching, or killing of raccoons and opossums is permitted during nighttime hours by regulations of the commissioner, the animals may only be legally taken with the use of a light and/or a shotgun using shot no larger than number eight, and the person or persons so hunting shall be accompanied by a dog or dogs and, if hunting on the lands of another, shall have the written permission of the landowner.

Any person violating this section shall be guilty of a Class B misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished for the first offense by a fine of not less than two thousand dollars ($2,000) nor more than three thousand dollars ($3,000) and may be imprisoned in the county jail for a period not to exceed six months. In addition, the court shall revoke all hunting license privileges for a period of three years from the date of conviction.

No provision of this section shall be construed to prohibit the nighttime hunting of foxes with dogs.

(Acts 1935, No. 383, p. 813, §5; Code 1940, T. 8, §86; Acts 1949, No. 662, p. 1026, §1; Acts 1953, No. 767, p. 1028, §1; Acts 1982, No. 82-488, p. 811, §1; Acts 1995, No. 95-215, p. 252, §2; Act 2008-384, p. 714, §1.)


Are you getting my drift here , Clem??

Re: Hunting At Night Conducted by WFF [Re: Jack Fate] #613196
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I don't have a problem with shooting a few does in the summer for scientific purposes like conception dates, but it seems THEY LOSE THE COLLECTED INFORMATION EVERY DANG YEAR. You would think in 30 or so years they would know what the approximate breeding dates are in each area, or they could just ask ask 10 or so hunters and they could tell them.

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