LEMOYNE, Pa. — The Pennsylvania State Grange registered deep disappointment on the October 21, 2019 vote by the Pennsylvania House Game and Fisheries Committee on Senate Bill 147, legislation to allow three designated Sundays for hunting and issued the following statement.
The Pennsylvania State Grange believes that the vote was short-sighted because while Sunday hunting is hailed as a panacea to end the decade-old slide in hunting licenses, proponents have never documented that claim.  Problems facing hunting are deeper than simply adding Sundays.  A cultural shift, less young people being familiar with recreational hunting, and other causes need to be explored by an independent body like the PA Legislative Budget & Finance Committee before there is a legislative rush to judgement about the solution.
Grange membership includes many avid hunters and we support their activities while recognizing the need to look more deeply into how longer-term solutions into the decline of hunting license sales can and should be made.
–Vince Phillips, Pennsylvania State Grange