Announcing the New Jersey Backcountry Hunters and Anglers Chapter

[Footanklefxr]

I am very pleased to announce that New Jersey finally will have a BHA Chapter. Our First Pint Night will be held on July 25th. All are welcome.
Please contact me with any questions.
Cheers,
Gerald

 

[vanish]

Cool!

 

[cgarner]

Excellent news.

 

[TwistedSage]

That is awesome, just left NJ for NM last year. Great timing for a chapter there with the new governor and the general public not understanding game management. Good luck guys and glad y'all are pushing this effort, a lot of interesting ideas are tossed around up there and there needs to be a scientific voice of reason

Awesome picture too I do miss all of the Lilly pads and cover to fish up there. Those Lilly's are just begging a weightless senko to be tossed out or a frog zipped over. Damn I need to fish soon. Only downside about moving here(I live in the desert now but love it)

 

[10Dogs]

Great to see sportsmen not giving up on hunting / fishing and land stewardship in the Garden State.
We will face either growing ignorance or a reversal with the new Governor being such a lefty.
The pine barrens are a special kind of beautiful, but wild is where you find it.


Gerald...........thanks for doing something

 

[TwistedSage]

It is great and fortunately NJ does have a quite a history with hunting especially waterfowling and there are a lot of hunters in the state.
Unfortunately the state gov could care less about game and habitat management unless there is a feel good story about saving bears involved. Besides the gov being allowed to appoint F&G directors to suit him hunting is just not a big part of the economy and they do not allocate much resource to habitat or game conservation/enforcement.

I can see a sportmens volunteer origination having a greater impact than NJ F&W.(I've actually never seen a game warden or conservation officer my entire time in NJ, I've had GW on night patrol in TX checking my fishing license at 2 am before, some states really care about their game)

I do love the pinelands, saw an albino buck in there a few years ago it was almost spiritual

 

[Ben Long]

Does my heart good to see a NJ chapter of BHA. Who woulda thunk it? I fished the Musky once and was delighted in what a lovely trout stream it is, only a couple hours from the airport in Newark. Good luck and welcome!

 

[Corax]

I started as an adult onset hunter in NJ, going after squirrels on Hamburg MT (?), then deer in the Great Swamp.

Good luck.

 

[Footanklefxr]

Thank you so much. That really means a great deal. We will continue to do our best.
Gerald

 

[Footanklefxr]

We are official! New Jersey Backcountry Hunters and Anglers is an official chapter. I am proud to Co-Chair with Mike Adams. Looking forward to the Rendezvous in 2020!