I'm not a mourning dove hunter, but I support HHDC 100%. We all hang together as hunters or gunowners, or we all hang separately. I already sent my donation.
Background - A bipartisan majority in the state legislature(as well as even Granholm) passed a trial mourning dove hunt which has Michigan progress like its neighbors in Indiana which already have a mourning dove hunt.
Out of state interests such as the Humane Society of the United State (Not your local pet rescue group) and Fund for Animals (Both backed John Kerry BTW.....) spent $50,000 to bring this to referendum. This places the hunting ban on the ballot to be decided on in 2006. That's why HHDC formed.
HHDC is supported by Michigan Gun Owners and SAFR, two pro-firearm organizations in the state(I'm a member of both). It's a legit ballot question committee filed with the State of Michigan, and it's ready to fight the anti-hunters and ready to drive them back to Washington DC.
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Interviewer: "Where would your organization support Black Bear hunting - anywhere in the United States?"
(Wayne) Pacelle(HSUS President): "Nowhere"
Interviewer: "Where does your organization support the hunting of deer - anywhere in the United States?"
Pacelle: "Nowhere"
Interviewer: "Where, in the United States, does your organization support any hunting of any species?"
Pacelle: "Nowhere"
Interviewer: "So the real agenda and goal of Fund For Animals is a total ban on all hunting everywhere?"
Pacelle: "Yes."
Interviewer: "So all this debate about whether or not the Black Bear is threatened or endangered and the actual number of Black Bear that we have in Florida is really irrelevant since the goal of your organization is to ban all hunting everywhere?"
Pacelle: "Yes"
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That's what we are up against.
"Humane Society of the United State (Not your local pet rescue group)"
Extreme lefty group. Mourning dove hunting was talked about in WI a couple years ago. I don't know what the outcome was, but there was sure an uproar from the liberals. Just imagine the overpopulation of deer in our areas (WI and MI), and other states like TX and PA, the starvation and deasease if hunting was banned. These libs are clueless, hunters actually contribute greatly to animal management.
When the anti crowd in Minnesota tried to defeat the dove hunting bill, they claimed there would be a environmental disaster.
Because doves eat weed seeds, hunting them would cause an explosion of weeds.
More weeds, more herbicides used by farmers and homeowners.
The bill passed and I still pull my weeds by hand.
In Wisconsin, we had opposition to Dove hunting a few years back, including an expensive law suit.
Now that we have it, there is no change in the dove population and the whole controversy has been forgotten.
Hunting and fishing should be encouraged. Without it, the natural resources would suffer as the hunt and fish fees pay a big portion of the DNR budget.
Mourning doves? I thought they were Morning doves?
Is there a difference?
Here's more from Pacelle -
"We have no problems with the extinction of domestic animals. They are creations of human selective breeding." – Animal People News, May 1, 1993
He's also opposed to pet ownership.
HSUS is typical of such who are stepping over the line!