Alert   8/5/08         Reminder & Hunting Dogs

 

         PLEASE CROSS-POST

 

Are you coming?

 

8/10/08   Fredericksburg

Sunday   11 am – 1 pm

location:

PermaTreat Building  

505 Lafayette Boulevard

Fredericksburg

 

 

8/17/08   Richmond

Sunday   11 am – 1 pm

location:

Rockwood Park Nature Center

3401 Courthouse Road

Richmond

 

 

9/7/08     Winchester

Sunday   11 am – 1 pm

location:

Halpin-Harrison Hall

(Business School Building)

Shenandoah University

Winchester

 

If you haven’t already said you will attend, please do so ASAP.

 

 

Hunting Dogs

 

Hunting with dogs and issues that arise from that continue to get significant coverage.

 

Here is the link to a fairly long article from the Sunday, 8/3/08, edition of Fredericksburg’s Free Lance-Star:

 

http://fredericksburg.com/News/FLS/2008/082008/08032008/398430

 

 

In addition, DGIF (Virginia’s Department of Game and Inland Fisheries) put out an alert yesterday, 8/4/08. You can see it by using this: www.dgif.virginia.gov/houndhunting.

 

When you get there, you will be able to click on four new files:

Reports Summarize Public Input, Technical Information

 

Public Comment Period Information

 

Recommended and Proposed Strategies

 

July 2008 Update

 

See particularly the information about public comment. There are public meetings scheduled at which public input is invited. Seven such meetings are planned, and please, if you are concerned about hunting with hounds, you are urged to get to the meeting closest to you and let others around the state know as well.

 

Southwest

8/26/08 Tuesday

7 pm – 9 pm

Wytheville Meeting Center, Wytheville, VA

 

Shenandoah River Valley, Harrisonburg

8/27/08 Wednesday

7 pm – 9 pm

Spotswood High School, Penn Laird, VA

 

Northeast, Caroline County

8/28/08 Thursday

7 pm – 9 pm

Caroline Community Center, Bowling Green, VA

 

NOVA

9/2/08 Tuesday

7 pm – 9 pm

Fauquier High School, Warrenton, VA

 

Mid-Piedmont

9/3/08 Wednesday

7 pm – 9 pm

Appomattox High School, Appomattox, VA

 

Southeast

9/4/08 Thursday

7 pm – 9 pm

King’s Fork High School, Suffolk, VA

 

Southside

9/9/08 Tuesday

7 pm – 9 pm

Gretna High School, Gretna, VA

 

 

Let us know how the meetings go.

 

Thank you.

 

Lillian Clancy and Don Marro