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WELCOME
TO OUR WEBSITE!
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Important Alert
for all sportsmen!
Harrisburg
Alert - HB 1523 & amendment alert!
Emails and
phone calls to your legislator's....
Please this
amendment must not pass.
Read
more
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USP
has booths at the
Allegheny
Sports Show February 15 - 19, 2012
Monroeville
(Pittsburgh) PA, and
Oaks
Show February 16 - 19, 2012
Philadelphia,
PA
Please
attend and visit our booth
We
at USP are there for the sportsmen.
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Notice
Guest Speakers at our Membership Meeting
USP’s
spring meeting will have two important speakers. Respected
ecologist John Eveland, and PA Fish & Boat Commission’s
Executive Director John A. Arway.
This
is going to be a very important meeting, please attend
Read
more
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USP
President Randy Santucci was interviewed by rock legend and
avid hunter/outdoors-man
Ted Nugent at his ranch in Michigan. For
your
viewing pleasure you can click
here
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HUNTING
LICENSE OVERVIEW
As excessive harvesting
of doe by The Pennsylvania Game Commission's deer management
program continues, its negative effect on hunting license
sales continue. Contrary to the PGC's claims that our circumstance
are in line with a national trend, neighboring state’s sales
are identified to show our situation to be unique. Yes, hunting
license sales differ state to state, and nationally there
is a decline in sales, but there is NO TREND like the downward
one now unfolding in Pennsylvania. Graph's that were recently
presented to the governor's staff showing the serious decline
in Pennsylvania's hunting license sales are viewable
here.
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Please
be sure to visit our news page for the latest information,
and refresh you pages every visit to insure you view our latest
pages!
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Hunter
feedback about disappointing deer season
Another disappointing
deer hunting season, thanks to the PGC's deer eradication
program. We have been getting considerable feedback
from our viewers at talk
back and I have generated a page for our readers to read
that feedback. I have removed their names and email
address for the writer’s privacy. Now that the holidays
are over and the year 2011 closed we can look back hopefully
that is was the year our PA deer mismanagement started to
change. We as hunters can only hope 2012 brings
an end to the devastation of our number one sport hunting
animal, the white tail deer. Read
our disappointed hunters stories.
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The
purpose of the Unified Sportsmen of Pennsylvania is to bring
attention to important issues relating to hunting, fishing,
trapping and shooting. We publish and distribute
a quarterly news letter (Woods & Waters) for our members.
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Pennsylvania's
hunting tradition
Now
that regular deer hunting season is over, we hope everyone
had a safe hunting season. However, from feedback and complaint’s
we have been getting at USP; the season was another failure
with hunters seeing very few deer. Thanks to the PGC's failed
deer management plan with very few deer remaining, we can
no longer call it hunting, just time enjoying the outdoors.
The
second archery and primitive flintlock hunting season open;
we ask all hunters to be extremely careful and insure and
identify your target. At this time hunters will be wearing
camouflage while hunting, and not wearing the
florescent orange, and can very
easily blend into the background .
We
are asking the hunter’s to not shoot a doe and help the deer
herd recover.
We sportsmen are well
aware there are locations with-in Pennsylvania that are over
populated with deer, but the majority of the state has had
the herd decimated. This sport of hunting must be preserved
for our future generations of children and grandchildren,
change to PGC's self destruction of siding with the anti-hunters.
We sportsmen must band together and attempt to end the fraud
of the PGC.
USP
supports returning to the traditional two week buck season
followed by a two day doe season. We believe the PGC should
go back to doe allocations by county instead of Wildlife Management
Units. If a county has a deer shortage; close that county
and give the herd a chance to build back up. Where there are
an abundance of deer extend the doe season if necessary.
Our
missions are:
- To promote and
maintain high standards in conservation of our natural resources.
- To cooperate with
State and Federal agencies and all sportsmen organizations
to protect and achieve the needs of both wildlife and sportsmen.
- To defend our heritage
right to hunt, fish, trap, and to protect our constitutional
right to keep and bear arms.
- To promote programs to educate the public
about hunting, fishing, trapping and shooting for all future
generations.
Being
the largest independent statewide sportsmen organization in
Pennsylvania, we can accomplish a lot with just a small amount
of money. All of the USP officers are highly motivated, interested,
knowledgeable sportsmen and all are non salaried, and even
our professional full time representative in Harrisburg is
a non salaried officer. In spite of all this we cannot perform
miracles, and we cannot exist without you as a member.
Join
Now!
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