A group has announced its opposition to one of the recent fiscal code bills because they feel it unfairly takes money from the Pennsylvania Game Commission.
The group “Hunters United for Sunday Hunting” claims that House Bill 1300 will “loot the Pennsylvania Game Commission’s Game Fund of over $150 million” and would also counter the nearly $40 million in federal funding from the Pittman-Robertson Wildlife Act and the $10 million in tax money from Game Commission real property. They feel the money would be given to the Clean Streams Fund, which they say funds conservation programs including the Agricultural Conservation Assistance Program, which is designed to share the costs with farmers for farm management practices to reduce sediment in waterways. They also feel that the hunter-conservation community would not be able to absorb the loss of $200 million or any future deficits from this action.
The group says that the money should be used for hunter-conservation purposes, and not to “build concrete barnyards or purchase cover crops for a farmer to plant.”
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