Lawmaker offers bill to protect hunting in WV gorge

After an effort last year to curtail some hunting within the boundaries of West Virginia's majestic New River Gorge National River, a federal legislator has introduced a bill to prohibit future attempts to close acreage to hunters by the National Park Service. “I view it as a God-given right for West Virginians to hunt in the New River Gorge, by golly,” said bill sponsor, Rep. Nick Rahall, (D-W.Va). In the Bluefield Daily Telegraph.

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[Dave Milne]

It's hard to believe that he'd introduce a bill like this while at the same time, he's essentialy proposing to "kill" hunting in another large area of the Monongahela National Forest by making it wilderness. He needs a tour of the Cranberry Wilderness. Nothing lives there because there's nothing to eat. These people don't understand that wilderness in the East is way different than in the West.