NEW JERSEY STATE FEDERATION OF SPORTSMEN'S CLUBS NEWS
Meeting 5-21-2007
To The Members of Quinton Sportsmen Club:
Good evening to all and thank you for your participation in our May meeting. The New Jersey Legislature have a list of Bills they will be voting for or against, I have a shortcut to a link at the bottom of the page if you wish to express your opinion to a Congressmen or Senator in your district. All you need to do is click on the link below and then it will take you to a list of Bills going to be voted on. Read them, and write down the Bill number and then at the bottom of the second page type in your zip code in the space provided and click GO. After doing that it direct you to the NRA - ILA New Jersey Legislative Action Center, you must type your Zip code again and click GO and a list will appear with your Governor, Senator, and State Representatives. Click on any or all of there names to send them your comments on any Bills you are in favor of or against. Thank you, John Vasta Jr.
New Jersey State Federation News
Quinton Sportsmen’s Club Meeting Monday 03-19-2007
Dear Members,
Legislation in early February Senator Lieberman (D-CT) hosted a “Climate Change and Wildlife” hearing in the Environment and Public Works Committee. This hearing outlined the current and potential problems wildlife will face and included several mentions of the need for increased state wildlife agency funding to “protect, restore and reconnect wildlife and their habitat.
As the evidence mounts on fish and wildlife becoming increasingly affected by global warming, bills addressing climate change represent a tremendous opportunity for the wildlife community to achieve the stable funding state wildlife agencies need to implement the wildlife action plans and conduct other important work on behalf of wildlife and their habitats.
All States must have an action plan, and this is New Jersey’s.
Habitat fragmentation: Habitat fragmentation resulting from suburban sprawl and increased housing and road development breaks up large critical habitats into smaller patches, which do not provide suitable habitat for many of the state’s rare species.
Invasive species: Invasive species include native and exotic, terrestrial and aquatic animals, plants, invertebrates and exotic pathogens that cause significant impacts and permanent loss of terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. The cost of restoring habitat destroyed by invasive species can be prohibitive and requires persistent and long-term management.
Contaminants: Contaminants include point and non-point source pollution and oil spills. Oil spills threaten freshwater and salt marsh ecosystems and the wildlife that rely on them, while contaminants from point and no point sources degrade habitat and cause developmental and behavioral abnormalities and reproductive failure in wildlife.
Climate Stewardship and Innovation Act of 2007”
“Climate Stewardship and Innovation Act of 2007” (S.280) to allocate a portion of the funds from auctioned emissions allowances to fish and wildlife adaptation activities through the Wildlife Conservation and Restoration Program. Funding for fish and wildlife conservation is an essential element of any overall adaptation assistance package.
Last year 375 groups from across the country came together to urge that all global warming bills include wildlife funding. With the leadership of the National Wildlife Federation, the Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies, The Nature Conservancy, Wildlife Conservation Society, The Wildlife Society and others have carried that message to Congress and had great success getting funding for wildlife conservation included in climate change bills with the potential for funding levels ranging from $500 million to as much as a billion dollars per year!
Where does the funding for wildlife come from? A cap and trade system would provide industry with a limited number of credits for allowable emissions of global warming pollution. For example, one credit would allow an electric company to emit 1 ton of carbon dioxide, the primary global warming pollutant. Here's where wildlife funding comes in: each year a portion of the credits will be auctioned off to emitters, and some of the auction revenue would be dedicated to wildlife. Because this funding is based on new revenues generated by the proposed legislation, it would not increase the federal deficit and would not come at the expense of other federal funding.
New Jersey State Federation News
Quinton Sportsmen’s Club Meeting
Monday 02-19-2007
Dear Members,
Our last meeting with our guest speaker Frank Virgilio was very informative and I thank you for your hospitality, and he also was very impressed with our club. Turkey season permit applications closes February 23, 2007, you have 3 more days to apply. I have 6 applications for anyone who is interested. I also have the New Jersey Fish and Wildlife 2007 Fresh Water Fishing Issue. The magazine has the Fishing Regulations, Wildlife Management Areas, Fish Identification, and some of the finest fishing opportunities. I have about 2 dozen and if we need more please let me know I will be happy to help… And now for the bad news, there is proposed changes in the time to hunt deer. Bow hunters want more time then shotgun hunters, and its causing problems. I have some detailed info I will post on the board for you to read if you’re interested. Thank you, John Vasta Jr.
New Jersey State Federation
Quinton Sportsmen’s Club Meeting
Monday 12-18-2006
Dear members,
I wish to thank you for your support and your patience. When starting this position some of our club members had asked me questions about this job and what it’s about. The Federation is a very important to all Sportsmen. I represent the Quinton Sportsmen’s Club and will be attending meetings of the New Jersey Federation and I will give you updated information from the New Jersey Sate Legislature of the Fish and Wildlife. This branch of the Government is the Executive Board that controls Guns and Ammunition and sets bag limits for all fish and game. In my research in the past couple of weeks I have talked to some very important people in this State Federation and one very important person who can answer all our questions regarding Guns, Ammunition, and the Laws.
I thank the board of the Quinton Sportsmen’s Club for their permission to invite Lt. Frank Virgilio who is the New Jersey Federation Director to our club at our next meeting on January 15, 2007. Frank sits on every State and Executive Board that is held in the State of New Jersey. His office is in the State Capital in Trenton, and sits with the board with three members who are the commissioners who set the limits and laws for hunting, fishing sports. I have had a long conversation with Frank and he assured me he could answer any question we have on Guns, Ammunition, and Laws that pertain to Sportsmen. Also he can answer questions on new Legislation that is in the works for the State of New Jersey.
So if anyone has any questions about Guns, Ammunition, and Laws that pertain to Sportsmen, please write them down and bring them to the next meeting on January 15, 2007 so the Director of the New Jersey Federation may answer them.
If you cannot make it to the meeting please send your questions by email to the clubs email address and we will ask the Director for you.
Thanks, John S Vasta Jr.
NJ State Federation Rep. |
