SUNDAY HUNTING PASSES IN 5 OF 7 COUNTIES - Boothe Leads Grassroots Effort, Calhoun Voters Approve Measure

(05/15/2014)

Hunting on Sundays on private land will be allowed in five of seven West Virginia counties where the issue was on the ballot. Many WV counties have already approved Sunday hunting. During Tuesday's primary election, voters in Braxton, Webster, Wirt, Nicholas and Calhoun counties approved Sunday hunting. Voters in Lewis County and Gilmer County rejected the option. Sunday hunting had not been on ballots since 2002. Cory Boothe, a former resident of Calhoun and outdoors writer, led a grassroots effort to revisit the issue over a decade later. Boothe maintained the opening of Sunday hunting has no impact on citizens and could held improve local economies. Five percent of voters in each county had to sign a petition for the matter to make it onto the ballot. Calhoun voters approved the initiative, 877 for and 729 opposed. In 2002, Calhoun voters turned down Sunday hunting, 928 against to 653 for.

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