SUN JOURNAL • March 15, 2022
A proposal to allow hunting on Sundays in Maine appears doomed. After hearing from passionate supporters and detractors at a Monday public hearing, the Inland Fisheries and Wildlife Committee voted 8-3 to oppose a proposal to lift the longtime ban. “Landowners statewide are mostly against allowing the use of their land seven days a week,” Don Kleiner, representing the Maine Professional Guides Association, told the panel. The proposed change to allow Sunday hunting “would create a complicated regulatory scheme,” said Kaitlyn Bernard, of The Nature Conservancy in Maine. Jared Bornstein, of Maine Hunters United for Sunday Hunting, said Sunday hunting supporters “will never surrender this fight. The only legislators to favor the bill in committee were three Republicans.