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Tennessee Wildlife Agency Defers Decision on Crane Hunt
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1/24/2011
Tennessee's wildlife agency has put off for two years a decision on a hunting season for sandhill cranes.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee's wildlife agency has put off for two years a decision on a hunting season for sandhill cranes.
The Tennessean reports the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency took the action during a meeting Friday in Nashville. The vote followed a recommendation made Thursday by a TWRA committee that a decision be delayed.
A crane hunt is opposed by many birders and by some hunters, as reflected in a survey by the agency and in comments filed with it in response to the proposal.
A total of 60,000 sandhill cranes are estimated in the eastern part of the country and a count early this month at the Hiwassee Refuge in East Tennessee found 11,000 of them.
A similar hunting proposal has been made in Kentucky.
