Legislation introduced to allow Sunday hunting and a spring bear season

Many legislative proposals are not new. This session, legislators will again debate Sunday hunting and a spring bear hunt, both of which are guaranteed to lose.

Here are more legislative titles and sponsors of hunting bills.

Title: An Act To Start a Spring Bear Hunting Season – Rep. Peter Lyford of Eddington

Title: An Act To Increase Opportunity for Hunters, Anglers and Sporting Camps by Extending the Season on Upland Game – Sen. Russell Black of Franklin

Title: An Act To Expand Coyote Hunting to Every Day of the Coyote Hunting Season – Rep. David Mccrea of Fort Fairfield

Title: An Act To Extend the Deer Hunting Season by 2 Saturdays – Rep . David Mccrea of Fort Fairfield

Title: An Act To Extend the Fall Turkey Hunting Season and Increase the Bag Limit for Turkey – Sen. Russell Black of Franklin

Title: An Act To Allow Sunday Hunting in Unorganized Territories – Sen. Russell Black of Franklin

Title: An Act To Preserve Maine’s Traditional Heritage by Expanding Maine Youth Hunting – Sen. Lisa Keim of Oxford

George Smith

About George Smith

George stepped down at the end of 2010 after 18 years as the executive director of the Sportsman’s Alliance of Maine to write full time. He writes a weekly editorial page column in the Kennebec Journal and Waterville Morning Sentinel, a weekly travel column in those same newspapers (with his wife Linda), monthly columns in The Maine Sportsman magazine, two outdoor news blogs (one on his website, georgesmithmaine.com, and one on the website of the Bangor Daily News), and special columns for many publications and newsletters. Islandport Press published a book of George's favorite columns, "A Life Lived Outdoors" in 2014. In 2014, George also won a Maine Press Association award for writing the state's bet sports blog. In 2016, Down East Books published George's book, Maine Sporting Camps, and Islandport Press published George and his wife Linda's travel book, Take It From ME, about their favorite Maine inns and restaurants.