Today, Governor Snyder signed Senate Bills 288 and 289 , ensuring that Michigan’s wildlife will be managed with sound science and protecting our rights to hunt, fish and trap!
The bills are effective immediately, and do the following:
Allow the Natural Resources Commission to name game species;
Grant the Natural Resources Commission exclusive authority over fisheries orders, as it currently has with game orders;
Provide free licenses to active-duty members of the military; and
Establish a right to hunt and fish in Michigan statute.
It wasn’t easy. Out-of-state groups like Humane Society of the United States flooded Gov. Snyder’s phone lines urging him to veto the bills and spent hundreds of thousands in television ads attacking the bills.
You can call Governor Snyder at 517-373-3400. To see how your legislators voted, click here, and to look up their phone numbers to thank them, click here. Some of your legislators took tough votes on this bill to protect our rights, so it’s important that we thank them!
This is perhaps the biggest conservation victory since Proposal G in 1996, and it wouldn’t have happened without Michigan’s hunters, anglers and trappers calling your friends, neighbors, legislators and Governor.
