Virginia Regulatory Town Hall
Agency
Department of Wildlife Resources
 
Board
Board of Wildlife Resources
 
chapter
Game: In General [4 VAC 15 ‑ 40]
Chapter is Exempt from Article 2 of the Administrative Process Act
Action Adding Section 310: GPS Tracking collars for bear and deer hunting with dogs
Stage Proposed
Comment Period Ended on 7/5/2024
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6/20/24  9:31 am
Commenter: Robert Wood

I oppose this bill
 

This bill requiring gps collars does not address any issues and will adversely affect any hunters currently using other tracking equipment. It will cost the dog hunter potentially thousands of dollars to update tracking potentially creating an even larger amount of hunting dogs in shelters. Most dog hunters currently use some sort of tracking equipment. If you're going to require gps trackers on dogs outside of the home setting then all people should be required, you wanna take your dog hiking off the property you own them you should have to have a gps tracker, you wanna fox hunt with horses, then have gps trackers. This legislation negatively affects the dog hunter and is an antihunting legislation.b

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