license? I wanna go love me some nature, hoss!"
Posted on 04/17/2006 2:00:24 PM PDT by girlangler
Sierra Club Director Resigns to Protest Hunting Prize posted April 17, 2006
Sierra Club Director Paul Watson, one of the 15 National Directors of the Sierra Club, has resigned today from the National Board of the Sierra Club.
He was elected to the Board of Directors in 2003 for a three year term. His term ends May 17th, 2006.
Saying, “I won’t fade quietly into the night,” Watson tendered his resignation on April 17th, which is a month before his term expires to protest the use of Club resources to finance a sport hunting trip to encourage hunting.
Watson was not notified of a contest posted in January 2006. The contest is an essay competition entitled Why I Hunt?
http://www.sierraclub.org/huntingfishing/whyihunt/
The first prize is a $12,700 hunting trip to the Sportsman’s Lodge in Alaska. Additional prizes totaling $3,000 will also be awarded.
“It appears to me that the Sierra Club should have better projects to spend $15,700 on than sending some nimrod to Alaska to shoot wildlife,” said Watson. “Last year they turned down my request for a $5,000 grant to assist the rangers in the Galapagos National Park deal with poachers."
Watson last year protested the posting of pictures of Sierra Club leaders posing with their trophy kills on the Sierra Club website. Each year, the Club is spending over two hundred thousand dollars on hunter outreach programs despite the fact that less than 20% of the Sierra Club membership are hunters. target="_blank">http://www.sierraclub.org/huntingfishing/whoweare.asp
Watson, who has been a Sierra Club member since 1968, thinks the Club is forgetting its role as a conservation organization. “This is John Muir’s Sierra Club,” he said, “It is not supposed to be the Sahara Club. You can’t love nature with a gun.”
Watson will not be attending his final Board meeting in San Francisco on May 17-20th.
“I have no intention of attending a meeting of a hunting club,” said Watson. ”I wonder how many of the Sierra Club’s 750,000 members know and approve of killing animals with their contributions?”
BTW, numbnut, hunters FOUNDED the Sierra Club.
Ping.
Just back from my Kentucky Lake fishing trip.
I was a few miles from where you grew up billhilly.
Caught so many bass my arms are still sore :)
Safari Club...Sierra Club...What's the difference? < /sarc>
.....This is John Muir’s Sierra Club......
Muir would roll around in his grave if he knew the travesty that in now the Sierra Club. A once great group has been infiltrated and destroyed by radical lefties.
That's the truth.
Audoban (can't ever spell that one right) also.
One of the original environmentalists in our country was Teddy Roosevelt and he was a hunter.
What kind of hunter would belong to the Sierra Club (other than John F'n Kerry)?
What a bufoon.
Hunting is my way of honoring nature
He got a better offer from the Super Adventure Club. He also fit in better, there.
And hunt too. Lots of stuff to do up there, I can't ever remember all of it.
They seem to forget the lessons of the Kaibab Forest 1905-1939.
Better get up there now. The bass are on the beds and the crappie are hot.
One couple with our group caught 60 bass Saturday.
I'm thinking about going back up to LBL in a few weeks to camp, and fish on the lake with a friend who is a fishing guide there. The Forest Service folks gave us a VIP pass and free tokens good through May.
The folks at the Kentucky Western Waterland Tourism Group are just wonderful.
He was offered a better job at PETA?
Never heard of that one. Can you fill us in?
Next Week's Press Release:
'Paul Watson Signs On as New Leader of Animal Liberation Front' *Snort*
Why must EVERYTHING, and I mean EVERY stinking thing be infiltrated, b@stardized and targeted for destruction by the Left? They're such dopes. Not that I'd ever give Dime One to today's Sierra Club, but hunters and a conservative conservationists can get more done to "Save the Earth" or "Save a Wetland" in one stinking day versus all the looney lefties have accomplished in the past decade.
Yeesh.
Beat me to it, I was going to post that.
Isn't Paul Watson the Paul Watson of Greenpeace and Sea Shepherd Society? Sounds like it.
if I were a student of semantics (which I am not) I would caution that TR and John Muir were not environmentalists...but conservationists (the work conservative is in there somewhere). And were stewards of the land, not protectionists.
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