The GTFO Comment on the Arizona Game and Fish Trail Camera Ban
I write to express my strong disapproval of the Commissions proposed trail camera ban in either form proposed. After reviewing the published PowerPoint demonstration, the Memo requesting approval of rulemaking docket opening, and listening to the audio of the Commission meeting, I have heard nothing to support the Commission’s desire to ban trail cameras. The Commission brings forth several justifications, but failed to provide any information to support those justifications. Most significantly, absolutely no information was presented to explain why trail cameras eliminate the Fair Chase ethic from hunting. Instead, the Commission makes unsupportable claims that trail cameras remove the need to obtain hunting skills and makes it virtually impossible for game to elude take. Many of the Commission’s claims ring false and/or significantly overblown and have had the effect already of creating animosity among the hunting community towards the Commission, expressed on various internet s
