Letter: Hunting on the rise in Maine, thanks to Commissioner Camuso

BANGOR DAILY NEWS • June 4, 2025

V. Paul Reynolds’s May 28 column attacked Inland Fisheries & Wildlife Commissioner Judy Camuso for seeking gender parity on hiring panels. Despite the fact that half of Mainers are women, he considers equal representation in hiring processes to mean she is “hell bent” on “the creation of a matriarchy.” He also seems to have big feelings about the department’s efforts to introduce new communities to the Maine outdoors, apparently preferring to limit hunting and fishing to people who look and think like him. The department’s outreach to new communities is preserving Maine’s outdoor heritage. ~ Jeremy Cluchey,
Bowdoinham