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KNOW WHAT YOU CAN DO TO LEGALLY PROTECT YOUR FAMILY AND ANIMALS
The foothills and mountains of Northern California are
experiencing a significant increase in mountain lion encounters - including one which took the life of a 21-year-old man. It has been fifty years since lions have been legally hunted in California - usually via pursuing them with dogs. As a result, lions have lost their fear of humans and the dogs which use to hunt them. With the threat to human safety and the loss of livestock and pets skyrocketing, The Outdoor View believes it is important for those who live in California to know the laws which direct what you can legally do to protect your family and your animals from mountain lions.
Below is a link to the Chapter in the California Fish & Game Code that deals with mountain lions. You may want to pay particular attention to Section 4807.
The Outdoor View is committed to seeking some common-sense changes to predator management policy in California. We believe it is critical that we strengthen our legal ability to protect our families, as well as our pets and livestock. As we move forward with these efforts, we will keep you informed, and we will need your support.
The Outdoor View (TOV) would like to provide you with an update on the proposal by the Catalina Island Conservancy (CIC) to eradicate all the deer on Catalina Island. With CIC’s efforts to secure the approval of the Avalon City Council to net and kill deer inside the city limits rejected last November, and California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) approval of the general permit now apparently stalled, CIC attempted to cut a deal with the city. In early April, CIC approached the Avalon City Council with a “compromise” proposal in which CIC offered to:
To formally consider the “compromise” proposal, the Avalon City Council scheduled a special meeting for the evening of April 9th. However, the CIC offer was not a “compromise” at all – rather CIC simply trying to take some advantage of the delay in CDFW approval pushing their eradication timeline back to 2025 at best. Knowing that City Council agreement to the CIC "compromise" would remove a major roadblock to CDFW approval, all our partners in opposition went to work contacting City Council representatives and urging them to firmly oppose the CIC offer. The evening of April 9th, after being contacted by opposition numerous times prior to the meeting and following over two hours of public testimony during the meeting, the City Council soundly rejected the CIC proposal.
Two weeks later, CIC lost another hard-fought round when the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted 5-0 to send a letter to CDFW Director Chuck Bonham in strong opposition to the aerial gunning of the deer on the island.
TOV will continue to work with our state and national conservation partners and the local coalition to fight CIC’s baseless proposal and ensure CDFW’s ultimate decision is based on hard science.
HEAR WHAT EXPERTS AND LOCALS HAVE TO SAY ABOUT THE LACK OF SCIENCE BEHIND THE CONSERVANCY'S PUSH TO SLAUGHTER ALL THE DEER
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AB 28 (GABRIEL) - FIREARMS & AMMUNITION EXCISE TAX
Signed into law on September 26th, AB 28 by Assembly Member Jesse Gabriel (D/46-Woodland Hills) will -- beginning July 1, 2024 -- impose an 11% excise tax on the retail sale of all firearms, firearm parts, and ammunition.
Coined the “Gun Violence Prevention, Healing, and Recovery Act”, AB 28 will require that the revenues collected be deposited in the “Gun Violence Prevention, Healing, and Recovery Fund” and used to fund various gun violence prevention, education, research, response, and investigation programs.
AB 28 will double the excise tax currently assessed on the sales of firearms and ammunition. Law-abiding hunters and shooters already pay an 11% excise tax on long guns, ammunition, archery, and other hunting equipment and a 10% excise tax on handguns pursuant to federal Pittman-Robertson Act. But those dollars are appropriately allocated back to the states to fund positive programs – including wildlife habitat projects, hunter safety classes and shooting/target ranges. The California Department of Fish and Wildlife currently receives roughly $40 million annually in federal Pittman-Robertson Act funding for these purposes. Because AB 28 will significantly increase the cost of firearms and ammunition, it will also decrease their sales and, as a result, the federal funding allocated to California each year for wildlife habitat programs and projects and other important uses.
SB 8 (Blakespear/Skinner) – Firearms Liability Insurance
As amended March 23, 2023, SB 8 – co-authored by Senator Catherine Blakespear (D/38-Laguna Hills) and Senator Nancy Skinner (D/9-Oakland) – would require gun owners to obtain and maintain a gun liability insurance policy which specifically would cover losses or damages resulting from any negligent or accidental use of that firearm, including death, injury, or property damage. The bill would also require written evidence of coverage in the place where a firearm is stored. SB 8 would require the Insurance Commissioner to set the minimum coverage for a policy required by the bill and to develop a standardized form of evidence of liability coverage. SB 8 would take effect on January 1, 2025.
SB 8 STALLS IN SENATE!
SB 8 – legislation which would require firearms owners to purchase gun liability insurance – was heard in the Senate Committee on Insurance on April 26th with testimony taken but no vote held. A representative from TOV was pleased to provide testimony in strong opposition to the bill in that hearing. Having missed the April 28th deadline for policy committees to hear and pass a bill introduced in their house, SB 8 is now a “two-year” bill and cannot be considered further until January 2024
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California AB 804 - legislation signed into law in 2021 - requires the Director of the California Department of Fish and Wildlife to designate two days each year as “free hunting days”, beginning with the 2023/2024 hunting license year. To take part in a free hunting day, an unlicensed hunter who has completed the Hunter Safety Course, but not purchased their hunting license, may hunt if mentored by a licensed hunter, 21 years or older, who has held a valid hunting license for at least the last three consecutive years. To ensure safety in the field, mentors are restricted to only accompanying one unlicensed hunter at a time and must keep the unlicensed hunter within close visual and verbal contact. Those participating in the free hunting day are prohibited from taking any game species that would require a draw or a lottery to obtain a tag. Those participating in the free hunting day to taking only resident and migratory game birds, resident small game mammals, fur bearing mammals, nongame mammals, and - if 12 years or older - wild pigs with a wild pig tag.
"Free Hunting Days" goes into effect in California with the
July 1, 2023 - June 30, 2024
Hunting License Year
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SB 772 (Dahle) – Jr. Hunting Licenses: Age of Eligibility California law currently requires that residents be 15 years of age and under to be eligible for a junior hunting license. With both cost and opportunity having been identified as major barriers to the recruitment, retention, and reactivation (R3) of new hunters, the intent of SB 772 by Senator Brian Dahle (R/01-Redding) is to inspire youth to become life-long hunters and conservationists by allowing 16- and 17-year-olds to take advantage of the much less expensive junior hunting license and the many special “apprentice hunts” now made available by DFW, and many wildlife conservation organizations.
SB 772 HELD IN SENATE!
SB 772 was placed in the suspense file and held in the Senate Appropriations Committee on May 18th. Failing to be passed out of the Senate Appropriations Committee and to the Senate Floor by the May 19th deadline, SB 772 is now a “two-year” bill and cannot receive further consideration until the 2024 Session.
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