USSA Works to Protect Hunting on Important New England Hunting Lands
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USSA Works to Protect Hunting on Important New England Hunting Lands





The U.S. Sportsmen’s Alliance has gone to bat against an anti-hunter effort to ban pheasant hunting on an important New England federal hunting area.

The outcome could have far-reaching implications for sportsmen nationwide.

The U.S. Sportsmen’s Alliance filed public comment with the National Park Service (NPS) that favors continuation of a pheasant hunting program at Cape Cod National Seashore, managed by the park service. The issue was sparked by a federal court case in 2003. Anti-hunters had sued to stop the pheasant hunting program and the court ruled that the program be halted while an environmental assessment was completed. The pheasant hunt has been in limbo ever since.

“The National Park Service has for years demonstrated a bias against hunting,” said Rick Story, U.S. Sportsmen’s Alliance senior vice president. “This is the kind of thing that if left unchecked could become a national cancer, spreading to other regions of our nation.”

The NPS has issued a court-ordered Draft Environmental Impact Statement that offers three alternatives for the future of the pheasant program – to continue the status quo, to phase it out or to discontinue it.

The Alliance maintains that the pheasant stocking and hunting program poses no impacts or risks to the Cape Cod National Seashore and should be reinstated.

The NPS will consider changes to the Draft Environmental Impact Statement based upon comments by interested parties, including the U.S. Sportsmen’s Alliance. The final Environmental Impact Statement is expected in August.
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