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4 <br />(3) Limit hunting in areas near highly-populated areas. PROPOSAL: <br />Request the Wildlife Commission to provide hunting restrictions in certain <br />populated areas of the county. <br />(4) Reverse the present posting requirement. Currently, posting <br />of property is required if landowners do not allow hunting on their <br />property. PROPOSAL: To pursue the Wake County approach. Property is posted <br />only if the landowner permits hunting. <br />(5) Option to implementation of #4 - Maintain current practice; <br />however encourage hunt clubs to approach large landowners to post property <br />accordingly. <br />(6) Advocate for continuing education for every hunter. <br />Currently only newly licensed hunters are required to take safety classes; <br />it is optional for long-time licensees. PROPOSAL: To require hunting <br />safety classes for all licensed hunters. <br />(7) Restrict the use of shotgun pellets for deer hunting; <br />instead allow only usage of slugs. PROPOSAL: Request the Wildlife <br />Commission to pursue the appropriate legislation. <br />(8) Although not discussed during the committee meetings, a <br />citizen has requested that there be a restriction placed on the use of dogs <br />while hunting deer. <br />THE PUBLIC HEARING WAS OPEN FOR CITIZEN COMMENTS <br />MICHAEL HOOD, resident of Eno Township, avid hunter and volunteer <br />instructor for hunter safety courses, does not like the required use of <br />tree stands because people fall from them, drop rifles and shoot <br />themselves. Restricting center-fired rifles might be a good thing around <br />Chapel Hill and southern Orange County because of the close proximity of <br />houses. Northern Orange County is not that populated yet. As far as the <br />Wildlife Commission proposing restrictions around populated areas, he asked <br />how they would set the criteria. With reference to posting, he would <br />rather see the Chatham County regulation for Orange County. It requires <br />the written permission from a landowner for a hunter to go onto their <br />property to use any firearm, bow and arrow, shotgun, etc. He agrees with <br />requiring the hunter safety course for every hunter. He said there is no <br />law regulating the use of slugs or pellets. It is okay with him to not <br />allow hunting dogs. <br />JANE GAEDE spoke about the use of dogs to hunt deer. She and her <br />husband presented their concerns about this matter to the Hunting and <br />Fishing Ordinance Committee in time for them to consider this subject. <br />However, the committee did not discuss their proposal which is the reason <br />she is speaking on this issue tonight. She said that the use of dogs to <br />hunt deer is already prohibited in North Carolina in forty-six counties and <br />parts of four other counties including Orange County south of I-85 (.0109 <br />of the North Carolina Administrative Code). She would like to see this <br />prohibition extended to all of Orange County. According to the Animal <br />Control Ordinance, all animals are to remain on the owners property. Dogs <br />must be on a leash when off the owners property. Hunting dogs used during <br />