Nonprofit Org. C.A.S.H. COMMITTEE TO ABOLISH SPORT HUNTING U.S. Postage WILDLIFE WATCH, INC. Paid Newburgh, NY THE C.A.S.H. COURIER PO Box 562 Permit No. 450 New Paltz, NY 12561 THE COMMITTEE TO ABOLISH SPORT HUNTING Phone: (845) 256-1400 Fax: (845) 818-3622 DIVISION OF ILDLIFE ATCH NC www.wildwatch.org A W W , I . www.all-creatures.org/cash © 2008 BY WILDLIFE WATCH, INC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. www.canadageese.org WINTER 2008 TO OUR WONDERFUL MEMBER: MISSION STATEMENT: The mission of C.A.S.H. - Committee to What Will Happen to the White Abolish Sport Hunting - is to accomplish what its name says in the shortest possible time. Understanding that Deer at the Seneca Army Depot? abolishing hunting entails a process, a series of steps taken and not a single BY PETER MULLER action that would effect our goal over- th night, a time frame cannot be estab- On Thursday, December 13 2007 in close to white-out snow-storm-conditions, lished. We hope for building a succes- about 100 Seneca (NY) County residents braved the elements and crowded into sion of wins, and if not wins immedi- the small Varick Town Hall. They were joined there by Rita and Joe Sarnicola ately then at least a succession of from nearby Auburn, NY, Anne and Peter Muller from Wildlife Watch, as well as stirrings of consciousness. We hope to encourage those who are still silent to several other animal protection groups. speak out, awakening community after What brought this large group to a small town in New York State on that day? community about the heavy hand of The answer to that question started about 65 years ago. The US Army needed state and federal wildlife management an ammunitions depot in the area. To establish such a depot, the army seized agencies. We hope to alter whatever belief still exists that sport hunters are over10,000 acres of farmland near conservationists and champions of the Seneca Falls by right of eminent environment to a realization that they are domain. During WW II the depot destroyers of wildlife and ecosystems in was used to store, maintain and the narrow and broad sense. Where the natural feeling for wildlife doesn’t exist, supply ammunition to army units C.A.S.H. CATALOG ORDER BLANK we strive to engender among citizens around the world. The exact outrage that their own rights are violated function of the base after WW II DESCRIPTION QTY $ EACH $ TOTAL Your Name: ______by legal hunting and their quality-of-life has been subject to much diminished. Street: ______speculation –each speculative guess has been neither confirmed City: ______Luke A. Dommer was the founder of the Committee to Abolish Sport Hunting. He was nor denied by the Army. State: ______Zip: ______its president from 1976 until his passing in Whatever the use of the base, August 1992. Mr. Dommer’s research and this much is known with certainty: Day Phone: ______publications served as the foundation for the Eve Phone: ______anti-hunting movement. He remains, through The army enclosed the entire this organization, an invaluable and dedicated area with 24 miles of 12-foot high Fax: ______warrior in the battle to save wild animals, the fencing. A herd of deer was environment, and general public from the E-Mail: ______silent economy that encourages and preys on entrapped within that space. White Deer with White Fawn Photo by Leland Brun the passion of a few to kill the wildlife that White-tailed deer have a Subtotal: ______Date: ______belongs to all. recessive gene that can turn their coat white in color instead of brown. In nature, Shipping and Handling: ______$4.00 Special Instructions: ______Wildlife Watch Inc. the recessive gene is rare among deer and the chance of a fawn receiving two Additional S&H for Games: ______$5.00 ______a 501(c)3 Not-for-Profit Corporation. white-color genes, one from each parent, is even rarer. That is why, although NYS residents must add appropriate sales tax: ______Contributions are tax-deductible. Ship to address below (if different from white deer (who are not albinos) have been known to occur — such white deer Additional contribution to help C.A.S.H. have always been subject to awe and legends. In cultures around the world – from C.A.S.H. carry on its work: ______above): PO Box 562 New Paltz, NY 12561 Celtic to Native American to Asian there have been stories and myths told about Total: ______845-256-1400 - Phone white deer. Fax - 845-501-3016 The herd enclosed in Seneca Depot evidently had more than the normal share of You can now pay with: ______e-mail: [email protected] Mastercard/Visa # ______the white-color recessive genes. Since the herd has been inbreeding for over 65 ______Anne Muller - Editor years that trait surfaced. Today there are an estimated 200-300 white colored Expir. Date: ______E.M. Fay, Assoc. Editor deer in the herd of about 700 animals. Many of the brown-colored deer also carry Signature: ______Robert Greenough - Desktop Publishing the recessive white-color gene. www.wildwatch.org www.all-creatures.org/cash Please make checks payable to: C.A.S.H. or Wildlife Watch, Inc. Please see White Deer Story, Page 2 PAGE 2THE C.A.S.H. COURIER / WILDLIFE WATCH WINTER 2008 What Is Immunocontraception?

As immunocontraception will no doubt or anywhere else. I merely convey facts, dissembling. First, he makes no distinction longevity of the treated horses by more come up as a method of keeping the white data, and scientifically-supported between urban/suburban deer and rural than 10 years (see Kirkpatrick and Turner deer population in check in Seneca Falls, NY, conclusions. Urban and suburban deer deer and the contraceptive technology, 2002. J. Reprod. Fert. (Suppl. 60): 197- we thank Dr. Priscilla Cohn for giving us problems are local issues and it is not my which was developed only for deer herds 202; Kirkpatrick and Turner 2007. Zoo permission to reprint the following letter by domain to advocate any management where traditional management methods Biol. 25:1-8), nor have any behavioral the world renowned scientist in approach outside my home city here in are not deemed legal, wise, safe or publicly changes been noted (see Powell 1999. J. immunocontraception, Dr. Jay Kirkpatrick. Billings. The Tyler deer are someone else’s acceptable. The failure to make this clear Appl. Anim. Welfare Sci. 2:321-335) nor It was written in response to a letter by the deer and someone else is responsible for at the outset pits the hunting community have there been any deleterious Pennsylvania Game Commission in which decisions about their management. against the broad concept of management physiological changes regarding the ovary they criticized the “sterilization” of deer. The Second, I do not deal in opinions. I deal by contraception. or endocrine system (see Kirkpatrick et al. letter appeared in the Bucks County Courier only in facts, derived from controlled …Let’s examine the safety issue just a 1995. Biol. Reprod. Monograph Series I: Times written by Jerry Feaser, Press Secy. studies, appropriate analysis and peer- little bit more. The vaccine has been used Equine Reproduction VI: 411-418; Powell Due to space limitations, we are printing reviewed published data. With that stated, on the wild horses of Assateague Island and Monfort 2001. J. Appl. Anim. Welfare excerpts. For the full article, please visit let’s examine the article’s salient points. National Seashore, in Maryland, for 18 Sci. 4:271-284) I could go on, and cite www.pzpinfo.org To begin with, “sterilization” is an years now, and what safety issues have dozens of other papers regarding the use inaccurate and misleading term. arisen? Well, first, the body condition and safety of this vaccine in other species I shall respond...(to Feaser’s letter on Contraception, which is what the debate scores of the population have increased (some 50 of them, including a lot of “sterilization.” ) That said, or written, is all about, is reversible fertility inhibition, significantly (see Turner and Kirkpatrick. primates) but I think the point is made. please keep in mind that journalism but not sterilization. Spaying is sterilization; 2002. Reproduction. (Suppl. 60):187- Finally, the vaccine is a protein and ninth regarding this subject has been, for a neutering is sterilization, but condoms, 195), mortality has decreased significantly grade biology students who are paying decade or more, embarrassingly shabby, pills, diaphragms, IUDs, and (same paper), the vaccine has proven to attention in class know that proteins can’t inaccurate and misleading and for the immunocontraception (vaccines) are be safe to give to pregnant animals (see pass through the food chain. Does this all most part reflects a lot of passionate reversible and by definition, Kirkpatrick et al. 1991. J. Reprod. Fert. sound unsafe? opinions and theories but little of factual contraception. The paper’s editors, and (Suppl. 44) 321-325), doesn’t cause Next. Mr. Feaser tackles the economic substance. both authors should be more careful changes in seasonal birth patterns or the dimensions of deer contraception. He At the outset, I would like to make two about their use of inaccurate terms. health of foals born to treated mothers (see quotes a figure of $1,000 per deer. The points clear. First, I do not advocate the Mr. Feaser’s letter is a masterpiece of Kirklpatrick et al. J. Appl. Anim. Welfare cost of the vaccine is $21/dose (we, by law, use of contraception for deer, at Tyler Park hyperbole, misinformation and Sci. 6:301-308) and has extended the must provide it at our cost of production, with no profit), the dart costs about $1.50, and the bulk of the labor to do the darting White Deer is where the real cost lies. Costs will vary from site to site, depending on who is doing Continued from Page 1 the work and what they are paid. If you That herd is of great interest to want to pay someone $80,000 a year to biologists, wildlife watchers, and, dart deer, the cost will be high; if you want unfortunately, hunters. to use trained volunteers the cost is less; if The Army decided to decommission you use employees already employed by a the depot several years ago and publicly park, or agency, or whatever, the cost is announced that they would turn the Mary Anne Krupsak, a former Lt. Gov. of somewhere between. I actually can’t say property over to Seneca County. Since New York, speaks out against the what the costs would be in any given site proposal because of these variables, but I kept the the property was taken by right of books for the first two years of the Fire eminent domain from the farmers in Island project and the costs never exceeded Seneca County – it seemed like a fair $10,000. That included a two or three air decision . The county appointed an fares from Ohio and Montana to New agency called the “Industrial Above: Rita Sarincola, a York, and we treated about 150 deer. My Development Agency” (or “IDA” for math shows that to come out to about $66/ short) whose mission it was to decide noted local animal rights deer. I wonder who estimated the $1,000 what to do with the land about to be activist, per deer. acquired by the county from the Army. speaks out Now Mr. Feaser goes on to say that One of the first proposals to the IDA against the “Research also suggests that the use of came from a local company proposal hunting alone or in combination with other appropriately named “Sessler Wrecking” management actions, may be the only way which proposed to establish a canned Leland Brun, a noted wildlife to effectively reduce free-ranging deer hunt facility at the site. Needless to say, photographer and a wildlife rehabilitator, populations”. If Mr. Feaser is talking when Wildlife Watch became aware of speaks out against the proposal about the deer in Potter County, or even the proposal, we jumped into the fray. consideration of the project proposed by all of Bucks County, I might agree, but we On right: We succeeded in publishing an op-ed Sessler Wrecking Company. are not talking about the deer in Potter PeterMuller article in the local paper arguing Twenty-four out of twenty-five County or all of Bucks County. We are speaks out persuasively that establishing a wildlife speakers disapproved of the proposed still talking about discrete urban/suburban project by Sessler Wrecking to turn the against the deer populations. This is one more attempt watching area at the site instead of proposal canned hunt facility is of far greater Seneca Depot into a canned hunt facility. to confuse the issues. And, if Mr. Feaser economic benefit to the community. Many speakers agreed that the area bothers to read the papers cited above, he The facility was proposed to be in a would be best used as an eco-tourism knows that his statement is not factual. section of the depot that was entirely preserve, which would serve the larger He closes with descriptions of deer contraception as unproven (not accurate- within the Town of Varick. We found community, the environment, and see above), experimental (true, see above) the town supervisor, Joan Teichner, very preserve the white deer herd for future generations. and cost prohibitive (not accurate, see receptive to our ideas. Within weeks the above). Town of Varick had passed a zoning This area which is the home of a unique herd of white deer would be a I am not dismayed by the passion that change creating a special “eco-zone” accompanies this subject, nor am I tourist magnet for Seneca County. The in the area where the Army depot had dismayed if a community chooses not to entire community will benefit from been sited in which only limited uses use contraception. That is local business were permitted – canned hunt facilities making this attraction accessible to and not mine. What does upset me, is were not among the permitted uses. The wildlife watchers who would come from After much public outcry against the knowingly manipulating information, town, additionally, took measures that around the world. canned hunting, the Sessler Wrecking hyperbole, attempts to frighten people with assured the town planning board would In contrast, making the area a canned proposal was “tabled” by the IDA. skewed information and an anti- be the final arbiter reviewing the hunt facility is a short-term exploitation Peter Muller of Wildlife Watch had intellectual approach to debates that environmental impacts of the Sessler and destruction of a natural treasure that been invited by then Varick Town excludes facts and data and substitute Wrecking proposal should it go forward. belongs to all of the people. Supervisor, Joan Teichner, to do a opinion. Does any of that sound familiar The IDA decided to have a public When Pete and Anne Muller returned presentation about Wildlife Watching on a larger scale? hearing to see how the community felt the week after the meeting for the following the public hearing. A week Incidentally, lest anyone attempts to about the Sessler Wrecking proposal. County presentation, we saw the later, Peter was invited to do a pigeonhole me in some social activist That gets us back to our question: headline in the Finger Lakes Times. presentation to the County Board of group, I have hunted deer for most of my Why were all these assorted folks getting (Just had to take a photo of it.) Supervisors concerning establishing a life and I started in Bucks County more together in a small town-hall, in the At the end of the session, Varick wildlife watching area. Wildlife Watch than 50 years ago. middle of NYS, during a blizzard? Town Supervisor, Joan Teichner, asked is now working with a group of local Jay F. Kirkpatrick, Ph.D., Director, The They came to express their strong all of the attendees who disagreed with citizens and other organizations to come Science and Conservation Center, 2100 South disapproval of the Industrial the Sessler Wrecking proposal to stand up with a business plan and proposal to Shiloh Road Billings, MT 59106, 406-652- Development Association’s (IDA) up– only one person remained seated make that a reality. 9719. WINTER 2008 THE C.A.S.H. COURIER / WILDLIFE WATCH PAGE 3 A method for reducing populations of waterfowl and pigeons, without hunting or killing adult birds is OvoControl. Should the issue surface in your community, be sure to let officials know about this product. OvoControl® (nicarbazin): A New Tool for Managing Resident Canada Goose, Duck and Pigeon Populations

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One of our pro-active campaigns at Wildlife Watch has It is already a large There’s no been to advocate the establishment of wildlife watching business in the US by any facilities. We’ve already touched on the prospects of measure — $48 billion/year need to kill... establishing a wildlife watching facility at the site of the former and growing. So it is not at all strange that the owners Thanks to Natalie Jarnstedt for Seneca Army Depot that contains a herd of white deer sending us this item from The elsewhere in this publication. of large tracts of wilderness are starting to explore the Greenwich Time. Kathy Andrews invited us down to South Carolina to give a Once again, game agencies are presentation. The following announcement went out. possibilities. Peter emphasizes a point Wildlife Watch went to talking about killing mute swans. Florence-January 14, 2008) Wildlife Watch Inc. will About 100 mute swans have been th Florence South Carolina to be giving a presentation today, Monday, January 14 counted in Greenwich area. Some at 2pm at Lowrimore Auditorium in the John K. Cauthen meet Kathy Andrews. Kathy had been in touch environmental agencies consider them Educational Media Center at Francis Marion University. as much a nuisance as deer or the more Wildlife Watching is a prime outdoor recreational activity. with us before regarding abuse by lawless hunters on numerous Canada geese. If Wildlife Watching were a business, it would rank higher Swans are protected from hunting in than Microsoft yielding 45,650,000,000 in annual sales. her land and the lack of law- Connecticut, but the state DEP has the 71 million people participate in wildlife watching. There enforcement and authority to control them if it believes is a huge potential for wildlife watching businesses in harassment by the local they threaten ecosystems. Wildlife South Carolina. sheriffs and police – which Kathy clarifies a point officials have previously proposed Come join Anne and Peter Muller from Wildlife was chronicled in previous reducing the population, but protests Watch for a fascinating presentation on wildlife issues of the C.A.S.H. Courier. defeated the plan. Killing is being watching in your own backyard. We met Kathy and proceeded with our presentation to a discussed again. There were large landowners, the president of a land trust, well-qualified and interested audience. The audience was an ecologist, and business people who were very interested in thrilled by the new conceptual vistas that were opened to them. “Large numbers of them habitually hearing about a wildlife watching enterprise. The actual using one place will deplete the food numbers are dazzling, and for those who enjoy wildlife and supply,” said Dale May, head of wildlife are interested in a positive win-win situation for the wildlife division, Conn. DEP. “They can have a and their finances, wildlife watching is an exciting prospect. significant impact. Are they having an Coincidentally, at the time that Wildlife Watch started impact on every coastline and every working on the situation in Seneca Falls, New York, we were inlet? Probably not.” contacted by Kathy Andrews, a land owner in rural South Kathryn Burton, founder of Save Carolina who was interested in establishing a wild-life watching Our Swans USA, who has been a facility on her 100 acres. contributor to the C.A.S.H. Courier We are firmly convinced by the numbers and facts that a in the past, questions whether the swan wildlife watching facility can solve problems for land owners Kathy engages media after the presentation population is out of control. Many and communities. If there is a large area of contiguous, residents have reported that they are essentially uncultivated, natural land which is publicly or There was a prolonged and lively discussion after the seeing fewer swans than before, said privately owned and on which there is an abundance of wildlife presentation. We had requests for more information after we Burton, who believes the swans are – what is the best use that can be made of such a parcel of returned back to our office. We had good media coverage, scapegoats for other ecosystem threats, land? arranged by Kathy who is a pro in the field of PR. It was an such as coastline overdevelopment. What’s best? excellent introduction for most attendees to a new way of Burton pledges to fight the slaughter For the environment? thinking about the phrase “recreational use of wildlife.” of the mute swans. “If you can start For the wildlife? killing of things unjustifiably, when do For the financial benefit of the owner? The day Wildlife Watch you stop?” she asked. For long term preservation of assets? gave the presentation, For the surrounding community? Michelle Obama spoke to The answer to all of these questions is the the students at Francis establishment of a wildlife watching facility. Wildlife Marion University. We watching is a non-invasive, non-consumptive, non-lethal were fortunate to have enjoyment of nature and wildlife. It can be profitable to the been there to hear her owner and the surrounding community. inspirational speech. PAGE 4THE C.A.S.H. COURIER / WILDLIFE WATCH WINTER 2008 Time To Re-Evaluate Animals No Longer Useful to Hunting With Hounds Hunters Are Cruelly Abandoned In our last issue of the Courier, C.A.S.H. focused on hunting with dogs. As we’re continuing to write about this, we are grateful to our longtime member, Richard Firth, for sending us the article below. Extracted from an article by are pampered as long as they known by the telltale signs — Janet Caggiano of the Times earn their keep, others are not breed, collar marks, a skinny Dispatch: so lucky. frame or perhaps a tattoo. Most Every January, a week or In rural counties across the of the beagles and hounds are so after deer-hunting season region, animal shelters are older, but some are young ends, beagles and tri-colored taking in dozens of these pups afraid of loud noises such hounds show up at landfills throw-away purebreds and as gunfire. scrounging for food. They mixes. Since deer-hunting “No one comes looking for rummage through backyard season kicked into high gear them,” said Sgt. Kevin Kilgore, trash cans hoping to find a in November, Counts has chief of animal control in morsel. picked up 35. Hanover County. “We just find ”It’s heartbreaking,” said “I wish this didn’t happen at them walking down the middle Mark Counts, animal-control all,” said Bradley McGehee, of the road.” officer for Kings and Queens chief animal-control officer for “These dogs are viewed as County. Louisa County. “But the sad disposable, but they make the Photo of Almond Joy by www.coonhoundrescue.com The evidence shows that reality is, if a dog doesn’t most loyal and loving pets,” Visit them to adopt a coonhound. most of these lost canines were perform, [hunters] will said Linda Wickham, who once hunting dogs, abandon it. It’s cheaper for founded Hickory Hill two MARLENE A. CONDON sugar levels drop due to abandoned by their owners them to buy a new one next fall years ago. “The ones that In the wake of Michael Vick’s starvation. Too weak to walk, because they no longer serve than feed this one all winter.” don’t want to hunt are so conviction for animal cruelty they finally collapse and can’t get a purpose — too old, too slow, The Louisa shelter took in 70 grateful to find a new home.” because of his participation in up, awaiting whatever fate befalls or unwilling to hunt. dogs in January. Twenty-two Let’s hear it for adopting a dog-fighting, it is time to re- them. Can anyone deny this is Although some hunting dogs were abandoned hunting dogs, dog who’s an anti-hunter! evaluate the old Virginia tradition cruelty inflicted by hunters upon of hunting with hounds. This man’s “best friend”? activity, which is sometimes cruel And what about the wild animals Hunting’s Connection To Human Crime to the hounds themselves and that are absolutely terrified while PRISCILLA COHN SLEUTHED THE FOLLOWING: always cruel to the wildlife being being chased — either just for chased, negatively impacts many hound training or to their deaths? In Omaha, NE, 19 year old Kyle Bormann reports, but it disappears in later coverage. species — some of which we are Shouldn’t compassionate humans shot and killed a young woman. He used a We put a call in to Walmart in Fishkill, NY losing in Virginia. It is time for care about such cruelty to them high-powered rifle to shoot a stranger, Brittany to see if they sold the model rifle below and, this pastime to come to an end. as well? Williams, who was going through a KFC drive- guess what, they do!!!!! While they didn’t have Game birds, such as the Unfortunately, many people do thru. Bormann owned the legal weapons. It the Winchester rifle, they had a 242 caliber American Woodcock and the not realize that there is absolutely was a Winchester model 670A 243 caliber bolt action rifle with a scope by Remington. Northern Bobwhite quail, nest on no difference between animals bolt action rifle with a scope. Bormann’s Their price was $329.87. Combine these the ground. According to that are born wild and animals sister says everyone in the family is an firearms with possible medication or illegal drug “Virginia’s Birdlife” (published by born into domestication. Wild avid hunter. use and you have a super lethal mix. Ask the Virginia Society of Ornithology), animals suffer the same pain and Reporters and researchers should include Walmart to get out of the firearms business. decades-long breeding bird surveys terror as any living being. And, the hunting factor in their reports of crime 1-800-WAL-MART (1-800-925-6278); have shown declines in the just as is the case with pets of committed with hunting weapons. We’ve Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.; 702 S.W. 8th Street; numbers of these birds, whatever kind, each individual has noticed that local papers will include it in early Bentonville, AR 72716 precipitously in the case of quail. its own unique personality. Hunting dogs (and pet dogs, Travis Quirk, a University of which also need to be restricted) Saskatchewan graduate student Protection From Hunters Needed undoubtedly wreak havoc with who shot skunks when he was Herman Lenz, a longtime double the penalty. presents a hazard from firearms ground nesters by disturbing growing up but who now studies C.A.S.H. member in Iowa, has Law enforcement agents should to the public for a long time nesting activity. And this impact them, could verify this. As suffered from a lack of hunting laws initiate the charges rather than during the year. To allow the DNR is likely felt by nongame ground- reported in National Wildlife to protect people who live where the landowner. the leeway of lengthening seasons nesting species, as well. The Magazine online, Quirk had to there is hunting. We have weapons Rationale: Property owners is to cut off the public from any that now shoot farther and are more fear retaliation and often do not control over their own safety. It Eastern Meadowlark, a once hand-raise a litter of orphaned kits lethal at a distance. There are more press charges. is well-known that the DNR sets common bird with a beautiful song, (baby skunks) one year, feeding homes in rural areas, and people Monies collected should go to seasons on behalf of the hunters has suffered “significant statewide them with a syringe. He is quoted with high powered weapons who the enforcement department and firearms industry and the declines since the 1960s.” as saying, “They were like kittens, can be anywhere without reporting Rationale: This will be an public’s only recourse is through Lack of habitat — the result playing games, following me their presence. Herman came up incentive to the personnel of its elected representatives. We of too many people and too much around. Just sweethearts.” with the excellent suggestions here police, sheriff or conservation ask that the legislature take back unnatural landscaping — is a main Making wildlife suffer the after years of being victimized. departments to enforce the law. control from the DNR by C.A.S.H. sent Herman’s BLAZE ORANGE REQUIRED restricting its season-setting contributor to such declines. sheer terror of being chased by suggestions to members of the WHILE HUNTING regulatory powers. Wildlife is being forced into hounds solely for someone’s Natural Resources and Judiciary Blaze orange should be worn ENFORCE THE LAW AGAINST smaller and smaller areas enjoyment is an activity that has Committees of both the Iowa House while hunting regardless of THE USE OF MOTORIZED because of overreaching human gone on for far too long. If you and Senate. 65 letters in total were species hunted. VEHICLES FOR CHASING development. Allowing hunting wouldn’t find it acceptable for mailed out. We ask our IA members Wearing white and camouflage WILDLIFE dogs to run uncontrolled through your pet to endure this terror, then to please follow up. If you are in while carrying a firearm or While there is a law against the these limited-in-size areas you should find it unacceptable for another state, please consider another weapon should be illegal. use of motorized vehicles to chase wildlife, too. going for similar legislation. Rationale: The public should animals, the practice continues to undoubtedly adds insult to injury. As residents of Iowa are have a right to know where rifle be done. The use of motorized Additionally, Virginia law has There are many reasons to contacting us asking for help, we toting people are lurking for their vehicles should be a felony offense placed burdens on landowners silence the baying of hunting urge you to craft a bill or a series own safety. carrying a year in prison and a that rightfully belonged on the hounds — even if that baying has of bills to protect citizens in your OUTLAW HUNTING WITH A $1,000 fine and the law needs to hunters, which has turned been a source of music to some district and across the state of FIREARM THAT HAS A be enforced and incentives offered numerous landowners against hunters’ ears. Iowa from abuses by hunters. PROJECTILE DISTANCE OF to enforcement officers. hunting altogether. As a result, Constituents can contact the SIGNED PERMISSION OVER ONE-HALF MILE Rationale: The use of motorized more private lands are closed to chairman of a committee studying LETTERS TO HUNT FROM Outlaw hunting with a firearm vehicles creates further noise, LANDOWNERS that has a projectile distance of pollution and hazard to people, hunting and more dogs are let this issue by writing to Rick Busch Hunters must carry dated and over one-half mile. Hunting with pets or agricultural animals. loose to chase wildlife on state at the Virginia Department of signed permission letters from centerfire rifles should be The bill proposals above have lands that may be the final Game & Inland Fisheries, 4010 landowners while hunting on or outlawed. been crafted after hearing the refuges for some of our West Broad St., P.O. Box 11104, shooting into their property. PROHIBIT THE DNR FROM concerns of Iowa residents who disappearing species. Richmond, VA 23230. Or you They must produce the letters LENGTHENING SEASONS FOR feel that their safety and rights are Last but not least, abandoned can send an e-mail to him at upon demand by enforcement “SMALL GAME” being compromised by hunters. hunting dogs are not an [email protected]. personnel or landowners’ Rationale: The lengthening of Please contact me at your earliest neighbors. Failure to do so will seasons must be done through the convenience so that we may work uncommon sight in Virginia. ------be a felony and conviction will legislature and the regulatory together on this important matter. These hounds are often hit in Marlene Condon is author of result in one year in prison and powers of the DNR must be curbed. Your reply will be greatly traffic or, perhaps worse, suffer “The Nature-Friendly Garden.” a minimum fine of $1,000. The DNR’s lengthening of fox and appreciated. uncontrollable shaking as blood She lives in Crozet, VA. Forged or falsified letters will coyote seasons, for example, - Joe Miele WINTER 2008 THE C.A.S.H. COURIER / WILDLIFE WATCH PAGE 5 WHAT’S LOHV BEEN UP TO?

The League of Humane vote and then on to the governor Voters started this quarter with for his signature. We also thank Nellie McKay, who also two new chapter launches and ------graced us with her presence. Nellie was a huge a commitment to stop canned New chapter launches in hit, delighting everyone when she sang Duke hunt facilities in NY State. Florida look very promising at Ellington’s songs with the band. Here she is We interceded effectively in this time. Our first presentation stopping a proposal for a canned was in Orlando on February 2nd. dancing to Duke’s music with his grandson! hunt facility in Seneca County The venue was a great place The amazing vegan dinner that was prepared New York. Some of the details by Main Essentials chef, Enrique. Main of that intervention are Essentials is in Haverstraw, NY. It is all vegan, recounted elsewhere in this Caribbean cuisine. issue. That occasion again Photo by Laura Brown Here is Enrique the chef and owner of Main reemphasized the need to Nellie McKay and Edward Kennedy Ellington II finalize our pending legislative In our last issue of C.A.S.H. we did not include proposal in the New York State legislature to outlaw canned the fact that the Duke Ellington Legacy Band hunt operations in the state. Ethos graced LOHV with its presence at the NYC Through our efforts, called “Ethos Vegan Kitchen,” Dinner Cruise in October. corresponding bills had been it had a full array of vegan baked We hope to make up for that in this issue. Not introduced in the two chambers goods ready for the attendees at only was the band there, but they were there of the New York State 10:00 in the morning. with many of the musicians present. But for a Legislature, the Assembly and the Senate, to outlaw canned brief dinner break, they played for almost two hunts. A legislative session in hours. New York State runs for two We thank Gaye Ellington and Edward years. Since the bills had been Kennedy Ellington II., grandchildren of Duke introduced in 2007 they have to Ellington. Gaye said: “Helping animals is good be approved by both chambers Orlando Meeting cause.” before the end of the 2008 We are grateful to all Marilyn & Enrique Photo by Anne Muller legislative year and submitted to The presentation was the governor for signature. enthusiastically received with of the band members. Essentials of Haverstraw, NY. Left: NY much follow-up action in the Nancy Reed overcame We regret not having a photo of the amazing Assembly week following. her fear of water to join vegan Caribbean food. member ------the band. With Enrique is Marilyn Leybra, a Deborah Glick In the afternoon of the same Virginia Mayhew wonderful wildlife rehabilitator and customer day we drove to Tampa. The kept her balance Below: NY presentation had been arranged who is enjoying her time at the restaurant. State Senator by Joan Zacharias and Jodi regardless of the boat’s Enrique’s mission is to bring healthful food Frank Chemes; it turns out that both rocking in choppy, late to the world. He seems to be succeeding. Padavan and are NY State transplants. We October waters. This appeared in a Rockland Newspaper. For Nancy Reed Peter Muller knew Joan from her activism in the first time in more than a decade, Rockland NY State and had the pleasure Country Day has changed lunch vendors from a commercial organization to a local restaurant. After a year of committee meetings, taste tests and student and parent comment, the school signed a one-year contract with Main Essentials, a Haverstraw vegetarian restaurant that caters to vegans — vegetarians who also don’t eat dairy or other The Assembly passed bill animal products. A02612, sponsored by Virginia Mayhew Assembly member Deborah J. Jodi Chemes Glick of the 66th Assembly Rita Sarnicola of CROW- district (Lower West side of meeting Jodi Manhattan). The corresponding Chemes a State Senate Bill S00784 very active Citizens Respectful Of Wildlife – sponsored by Senator Frank organizer in Will Be Speaking Up For The Crows Padavan of the 11th Senate Florida— District (northern Queens) got originally also February 28, 6:30 pm, on the impact of the crow comment from the audience. stuck in the Senate from New Hobart and William Smith populations on Finger Lake Posters from the students of Environmental Conservation York State. Colleges Library, Geneva communities, particularly why Prof. Mark Deutschlander’s Committee. Toward the end of TheJoan Zacharias Room Kevin McGowan, the crows roost in such Bird Obsessions course, a the 2007 legislative year Senator meeting was again Cornell Laboratory of numbers and locations and first-year seminar on bird and Padavan using some enthusiastically received. We Ornithology Mary Hess, how Finger Lake communities human interactions, will be on extraordinary procedures crow- are expecting both groups to HWS Department of English cope with annual crow display highlighting the barred the bill out of the make substantial contributions Gordon Eddington, City of roosting. Audience members at biology of crows, the role of committee against the toward the enactment of animal Geneva Rita Sarnicola, this event will gain insight into crows in myths and cultures reluctance of the committee protective legislation in the very Citizens Respectful Of the unique biological from around the world, and chair to pass the bill out of near future. Wildlife Mark Deutschlander, characteristics and historic pervasiveness of crows in committee. There was not ------moderator from the HWS cultural value of this avian literature and art. Members sufficient time left in the 2007 With three chapters in PA Department of Biology. A species. In addition, common of the public are encouraged legislative year to get it to the already, another LOHV Discussion of Perspectives: options considered and utilized to attend this discussion to Senate floor for a vote by the presentation was given in PA on Crow Roosting in the Finger for their management by the voice questions and concerns full Senate. So we are currently February 16, 2008. Lakes Region.This panel City of Geneva will be to the experts in this panel. working on this final link to get Pittsburgh – where are you? discussion will examine the discussed, for crows often This event is free and open the bill to the Senate floor for a annual winter visitation of roost along the shorelines of to the public. crows to the shoreline Seneca Lake. A Registration is requested by communities of the Finger representation of community calling (315) 781-4382 or by Lakes region and how activism to encourage respect emailing [email protected] attitudes have changed over and appreciation of wildlife will Website: http://fli.hws.edu time in regard to the also be presented. The Finger Lakes Institute, ecological and cultural value panelists will each talk for Hobart and William Smith and management of crows. about 10 minutes, followed by Colleges, 601 S. Main Street, Tampa group in profound and intense discussion after the The panel will focus primarily time for discussion and Geneva, NY 14456 presentation PAGE 6THE C.A.S.H. COURIER / WILDLIFE WATCH WINTER 2008 ALLIGATORS: VICTIMS OR CRIMINALS?

Thanks to Kathy Andrews, we were and would be a reasonable cause for made aware of the SC bill to allow protection. hunting of alligators all year long. Currently, the DNR has the Please write your own letter. Here is authority to deal with alligators that a C.A.S.H. model about to be sent out. pose a threat to property or human The Honorable William Clyburn safety. As alligator attacks are P.O. Box 11867 exceedingly rare in the state, the Columbia, SC 29211 current form of alligator control is adequate and effective in addressing Dear Representative Clyburn: the reasonable concerns of the state’s We wish to call your attention to a populace. The general public of dangerous bill that is making its way South Carolina will derive no benefit through the state legislature. Bill from an open alligator hunting S.452 has passed the House season. Additionally, a hunting Agriculture, Natural Resources and season could deprive the citizens of Environmental Affairs Committee the state as well as tourists to South and will likely be heard by the entire Carolina recreational opportunities Photo by Anne Muller House of Representatives. If passed to observe the species at wildlife Letter by Chris Arenella, of Florida pulled from the pond so traumatized into law, this bill would authorize the sanctuaries and nature preserves, and New York. Chris is a friend of that he bit his rescuer, for which there Department of Natural Resources to should they be closed to public access both dogs and wildlife. We all read is a chance that he will be killed. establish a program for hunting due to alligator hunting. It is neither about three dogs who were trapped The fourth victim is the caring Alligator mississippiensis, the responsible nor reasonable for the in a pond with an alligator. person who helped rescue the dog. American Alligator, to create DNR to set a hunting season for recreational opportunities for the Alligator mississippiensis as Chris’s excellent letter was published The fifth victim is the alligator that state’s hunters. S.452 would additional management of the species in the Sun-Sentinel. saw the dog as a way to feed authorize the DNR to allow alligators is not needed. Regarding Monday’s South himself, because now it is proposed to be hunted at any time of the year, Rather than managing the state’s Florida Sun-Sentinel story by that he also will be killed. on any area (including wildlife wildlife for the benefit of the fewer reporter Andy Reid on the gator This heart-wrenching event could preserves and sanctuaries) as part of than five percent of the state’s killing of a dog trapped in pond have been avoided if, since the an “alligator control program.” population that hunts for recreation, On behalf of our members and wildlife should be preserved and weeds, it is obvious that there are three dogs are believed to be strays, supporters in South Carolina, we urge protected for the good of the species five victims involved in this incident. people would spay and neuter their you to oppose S.452 when it comes and the public who wishes to The first victim is the dog that was animals as well as walk them on a for a vote before the full House, as peacefully observe this magnificent killed. leash. hunting alligators is not in the best species in its natural habitat. On The second victim is the dog that Pet owners need to wake up and interests of the species or the people behalf of our members and ran away and may have died of start taking responsibility so that of South Carolina. supporters, as well as the people of shock alone. this kind of tragic occurrence does According to the DNR: “The South Carolina who wish for American alligator is currently listed American Alligators to be protected The third victim is the dog that was not continue to happen. as federally threatened by similarity in the state rather than exploited, we of appearance to the American urge you to oppose S.452when it Hunting’s Connection To Vandalism crocodile and as a species in need of comes for a vote before the House of management in South Carolina.” Representatives. A North Carolina town has lost was being killed] and the damage (http://www.dnr.sc.gov/cwcs/pdf/ Joe Miele hundreds of thousands of gallons of was not discovered until hours later. AmericanAlligator.pdf) While Editor’s Note: water that leaked from rifle bullet holes The damage is expected to cost alligator populations are not discovered in the town’s water tower. between $15,000 and $20,000 to No southern animal is as charismatic endangered in the state, their as the alligator. Alligators are a prime The town of Maiden relies on the repair, not including the value of the similarity in appearance to the tower that holds 750,000 gallons of water lost during the Southeast’s species for wildlife watching, drawing endangered American Crocodile millions of people to the Everglades and water. worst drought in more than a century. could cause members of that species Residents told investigators that they other parts of the southern US to see to mistakenly be killed. As South the large adults as well as the curious had heard the gunshots, but because [Editor’s note: So sad! How much Carolina is not in the normal range no one called deputies [editor’s note: longer will the gun industry be babies. Certainly they have a value for American Crocodiles, the presence beyond their skin and “sport.” we assume they thought a mere animal controlling this country?] of crocodiles in the state would be rare We Urge You To Help Jan Haagensen Defeat The Hunter Harassment Statute In Pennsylvania AS A FIRST STEP TOWARD DEFEATING HUNTER HARRASSMENT IN OTHER STATES Jan Haagensen is determined to move rights to privacy and their right to be vindicated by the courts. Her liberty harassment laws in Pennsylvania, she forward with her anticipated federal suit free from unreasonable searches and interest in practicing her chosen will be providing a blueprint to to overturn the hunter harassment law seizures. profession was also threatened during landowners in other states as to how which, as of this date, is still on the books The courts in general will not take up the years she spent defending herself. they can proceed in protecting their in the state of Pennsylvania. Having a challenge to the constitutionality of a Jan is the best person to effect the fundamental civil liberties, and their succeeded in defending against the statute unless concrete damage from its removal of a dangerous, profoundly rights in property. None of it will happen concocted criminal charges brought application can be shown by an undemocratic and unconstitutional law if she can not now go forward with her against her as the result of the individual citizen. Jan can show specific which is a threat to law-abiding legal challenge to the constitutionality of Commonwealth’s unconstitutional, damage done to her by the landowners. She wants to end any the statute. abusive use of this law, she wants to Commonwealth’s attempt to prosecute future use of this law by the government This is so much more than one woman’s make sure it is never again used to punish her for numerous criminal offenses. to force landowners to accept the fight for her constitutional rights. Jan’s and retaliate against landowners who are Jan’s case demonstrates that this gross invasion of their home ground by armed case can point the way forward for opposed to the slaughter of wildlife, and abuse of her rights was made possible intruders, whose sole interest is in killing, countless landowners and law-abiding who are also opposed to the life- only through deliberate use and and who have demonstrated their citizens who also wish to provide a refuge threatening gunplay indulged in by application of the hunter complete contempt for the lives and of safety for animals on their own property criminal trespassers on private property. harassment statute. rights of other human beings. – and protect their own families from the This is a perfect opportunity to reveal Jan had to spend thousands Jan has both a moral and a danger of reckless hunters, as well. exactly how the hunter harassment law of dollars to hire a criminal legal right to provide wild Jan should not – and indeed, can can be used as a weapon against defense lawyer, and she creatures with a refuge not – bear the financial burden alone. innocent and law-abiding landowners so had to spend years in court from the slaughter. The Anyone who wishes to help Jan in this as to strip them of liberties guaranteed getting rid of all false state has no right to punish important fight for the animals — and to them under the federal Constitution, charges framed against or harass her because she for all of us — may contribute to the such as the right to exclusive possession her. She was forced to has made this decision. If C.A.S.H. Legal Fund. Simply write of their own property, their First finance an appeal so that she does succeed in her “C.A.S.H. Legal Fund” on the note Amendment rights of free speech, their she could be completely case against the section of your check. Thank you! WINTER 2008 THE C.A.S.H. COURIER / WILDLIFE WATCH PAGE 7 South Mountain Reservation ASK UNCLE JOE Carol Rivielle of Save Our Wildlife took the lead in trying to stop the first deer hunt in South Mountain BY JOE MIELE Reservation, an Essex County, NJ Park. Countess GOT A QUESTION FOR UNCLE JOE? Ascynthia Courine also worked feverishly behind the scenes to stop it as well, but the forces that be, in the YOU CAN E-MAIL IT TO [email protected]. WOULD YOU RATHER SNAIL MAIL YOUR QUESTION? person of County Executive Joseph DiVincenzo are SEND IT TO: determined to see it through to the end. As many of ASK UNCLE JOE, you know, so much goes on in these battles, but in the C/O WILDLIFE WATCH, BOX 562, NEW PALTZ, NY 12561. end, there are great losses of those we try to protect UNCLE JOE GETS A LOT OF MAIL SO DON’T BE OFFENDED IF HE CANNOT ANSWER YOUR QUESTION IN and our hopes are dashed. When numbers are thrown THE COURIER. HECK, HE’S GOTTA WORK A DAY JOB, TOO. at us, it’s easy to ignore the suffering of individuals, Letters are printed as received. They are unedited. but Carol’s description brings it home: Carol’s message was: VALENTINE’S DAY ATROCITIES FOR ESSEX COUNTY’S SOUTH MOUNTAIN DEER MASSACRE. Dear Uncle Joe: Personally, I’d like to see the calves protected from People have to speak out. Their silence is killing I can’t believe your website! Have you ever seen the ranchers. The wolves will not kill them all, but the more of our deer who are probably trying to hide out a pack of coyotes take down a deer? They literally ranchers and the meat industry will. Seems to me that near houses as the following personal account of a South Orange resident shows. eat it alive. Ever seen a bear eat a salmon? Same the calves have a better chance of survival being among “At 2am this morning I heard a dog barking thing. What is fact is that an animal that is killed the wolves, no? They have zero chance of survival and simultaneously 5 pops or what could have been by a hunters bullet or arrow recieves a death that with the ranchers. Please read through our website perceived as gun shots. I looked out my window and is humane, quick, and virtually painless when and get in touch with other wildlife protection saw a white SUV/truck heading up Hoskier which then compared to the death that nature would provide. organizations. When you do, I’m sure you’ll see hunters made a u-turn at Whiteoak to go back down Hoskier.” and ranchers in a different light. What is important is the preservation of the species Last Friday, Feb. 8th - reported Maplewood through responsible management. They are Peace, Police, Essex County Police and another person animals and are very much revered by hunters Uncle Joe carrying pistol entered South Mountain Reservation and fishers. I only addressed two small issues. I ------and shot a wounded deer from the previous day’s hunt. could go on all day. Real thinkers are not Dear Uncle Joe: Deer seen running across road with blood in its impressed by emotion. we don’t need gun controll we need selective mouth. Deer found dead on Maplewood on Grassmere Larry V. breeding programs and real conciqiences mr Tues. Feb. 12th. Another report of a loose dog Muscoda, WI chicken (BLEEPER) pita boy no off spring for you attacking wounded deer in South Mountain which and as for nutty mcmall shooter make an example had to be shot by officer . Dear Larry: of him let people know they can’t do (BLEEP) like ATV’s seen used in five locations causing 6 - 8 Sorry, but you’re wrong about hunters killing animals that any more. stupid fruity liberal wack jobs are inch ruts in trails - hoof prints of small deer seen in humanely, quickly and painlessly. You fail to take gunna make me be one of those goofey militant front of ATV tracks - Crest Drive. How are ATV’s being into consideration that hunters do not always kill their guys with guns burried and stashed all over the used in this deer hunt - chasing wounded deer? prey quickly. Every hunting magazine has run articles place cause i know one things for sure i aint given South Mountain’s deer about to be on how to follow gut-shot deer. If the deer die quickly up my guns for nobody no how. EXTERMINATED - 139 deer slaughtered to date. and virtually painlessly, why do hunters have to wait Mike H. DiVincenzo quoted West Orange Chronicle, hours before following a blood trail? Hope, AR “the HUNT WILL GO ON even after county reaches its The South Dakota Department of Game, Fish, and quota...HUNTERS will continue to SHOOT AS MANY Parks has uncovered numerous studies that have Dear Mike: DEER AS POSSIBLE...” shown wounding rates of more than 30 percent - a Thanks for writing! I’m sure you’ll make a fine DiVincenzo before hunt started: “this will NOT percentage that is consistent across North America President one day. Try again in 2012. BE A TROPHY HUNT.” Fish & Game Council meeting due to the nature of shooting bird shot into the air. Peace, Feb. 7th stated how impressed they were that 10 year old Since an estimated twelve-million ducks are killed Uncle Joe stags being killed in SM because F&W’s Larry Herrighty nationwide, an additional 3.6 million ducks will be ------said deer being killed in NJ are less than 8 years old. wounded and crippled by hunters. Call this what you Dear Uncle Joe: Racks of antlers from SM’s magnificent dead stags will will, we call it unconscionable. I started hunting at the age of 8, my dad taught be displayed at Essex County Environmental Center. I also find it strange that hunters claim that we me safty first.my brother started at 10,my mother Essex County IS MAKING THIS A TROPHY HUNT. should not rely on emotion when thinking about and also hunted with us,so see mr peata it was a family Contact: NJ Democratic Legislative Leaders Today dealing with wildlife, but then they become offended thing, I have benn hunting and fishing for 40 yrs, Tell Them To Stop This Valentine’s Day Massacre Of South Mountain’s Deer Now! when they are called emotionless killing machines. I guide big game hunters in Idaho every fall, Elk Which one is it? Do you want to be well-adjusted, bear lion mule deer and some day I hope to guid Before It’s Too Late For South Mountain’s Deer! Senate President Richard J. Codey (West Orange) emotional people or do you want to be emotionless for wolf,yes wolf you see are elk population is way Telephone: (973) 731-6770 machines without the capacity for compassion? You down because the wolf are killing 7 out of 10 calves e-mail: [email protected] that are born every spring,not counting the cows Assembly Majority Whip Bonnie Watson Coleman (Trenton) can’t have it both ways, sir. Telephone: (609) 292-0500 Peace, and bulls thay kill,and dont tell me thay just kill e-mail: [email protected] Uncle Joe the week, I see first hand the what thay do to a Assembly Majority Whip John F. McKeon (West Orange) Telephone:(973) 275-1113 ------herd,Im not saying there isnt room for the wolf, e-mail: [email protected] Dear Uncle Joe: but we have to controll them just like any other Assemblywoman Mila M. Jasey (South Orange) Why are you defending wolves? They are brutal animal,thay are out of controll, gess why mr Telephone: (973) 762-1886 e-mail: [email protected] killers, and if you have seen a wolf pack kill first peta,there protected ,you can thank your self and Assembly Deputy Majority Leader Joseph Cryan (Union) hand in the wild you would stop “selling” the all the other bleeding harts,for killing the elk and Telephone: (908) 624-0880 e-mail: [email protected] wolves as “fuzzy puppies” because they are brutal deer herds in Idaho,yes you are a killer and you Assembly Deputy Majority Leader Nilsa-Cruz Perez (Camden) killers. We do not meddle in New York’s business, just dont know it, by the way anytime you want to Telephone (856) 541-1251 or pretend to understand your issues, and maybe go take photos of the wildlife let me know. I know e-mail: [email protected] Assembly Deputy Leader Thomas P. Giblin (Clifton) you should extend the same courtesy to us, as we where a big oll grizzly bear hangs out, he mite just Telephone: (973) 779-3125 do to you. Instead of worrying about Montana, let you pet him e-mail: [email protected] maybe you folks should work on getting wolves Jerome re-introduced in New York? Are you working Chalis, ID WHAT WE’VE BEEN UP TO towards that goal? Just wondering. You have to see what wolves will do to livestock.Who gonna Dear Jerome: In addition to letters and e-mail to town officials, protect the rancher’s calves? You are not doing Thanks for sharing your disjointed, incoherent C.A.S.H. wrote a letter to Governor Corzine on January anyone good by writing letters like these. thoughts. Let’s see – you want to kill wolves because 13th: It starts this way: Jamey they eat elk calves, but isn’t that the “balance” that Wildlife Watch, Inc. is an animal protection Helena, MT hunters are always crying about? Oh, I think I get it. organization that helps connect people, the The wolves are eating elk calves and denying them environment, and wildlife and seeks to protect Dear Jamey: the opportunity to grow up to be shot by you and your individual wild animals and species through education, political awareness and direct aid to animals in need. Nowhere did I mention that I believed wolves to be clients. You see (or maybe you don’t), you’re only On behalf of our members and supporters in New Jersey, “fuzzy puppies.” However, I would not describe them interested in protecting the elk because without them, and specifically those in Essex County near the South as “brutal killers” in the same way that hunters, you’d have one less animal to shoot. Perhaps if your Mountain Reservation, we wish to bring your attention trappers and cattle ranchers are. Wolves hunt to family would have sent you to school instead of sending to the misguided plan to use “sharpshooters” to kill survive. Our members and supporters in Montana you out hunting at 10-years-old, you’d have a different deer at the Reservation, scheduled to commence on do wish for us to comment on issues that interest view of wildlife. January 29, 2008. As an organization that works to them. Wolf hunting is one of them. And according to Peace, protect wildlife and the areas where they live, we wish Uncle Joe to list our objections to the Deer Management Program their voices, your opinion is the minority. You want and the reasons that our objections are based upon, to know who is going to protect a rancher’s calves? ------and we call upon you to cancel this hunt.

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