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Posted on 04/19/2008 12:32:56 PM PDT by neverdem
| Hunting Ban Being Discussed in Colorado! |
| Friday, April 18, 2008 |
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Please Make Plans to Attend
Prairie dog hunting generates significant revenues used for general wildlife management as a result of hunting license sales and Pittman-Robertson excise taxes on ammunition, firearms and other equipment purchased by sportsmen. This ban will put an end to this essential stream of revenue and detrimentally affect the management of deer, elk and other species. In addition, Colorado attracts hunters from around the country who generate significant economic activity that benefits the rural communities that need it most. The Colorado Wildlife Commission will be meeting at the Holiday Inn on 755 Horizon Drive, Grand Junction, CO 81506 on May 1 and May 2 starting each morning at 8:30am. Please attend these meetings and voice your support of all hunting in Colorado. It is critical that sportsmen show that the radical anti-hunting lobby is in the minority by significantly out-numbering them at the meeting. If you are unable to attend, please call the Colorado Wildlife Commission at (303) 297-1192 and inform them that you are strongly opposed to any attempt to ban prairie dog hunting in Colorado. |
Ban proponents like the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) have boasted that they seek to ban all hunting means of foraging for food in the United States "species by species" and this proposal is one more incremental step in their plan to end our hunting heritage ability to survive without corporate food.
There, that's more like it.
Eric York, 37, was found in his home at the Grand Canyon National Park on Friday. The Coconino County Medical Examiner suspects an infectious illness may have killed York because his lungs were filled with fluid and his body showed signs of pneumonia.
Hantavirus is transmitted to humans through infected rodent droppings, urine and saliva and is not transmitted from person to person.
Plague is transmitted primarily by fleas and direct contact with infected animals. When the disease causes pneumonia, it can be transmitted from an infected person to a non-infected person by airborne cough droplets.
http://www.abqjournal.com/news/state/apbiologist11-06-07.htm
Prairie dogs have been pushed out of their native habitat ranching and farming activities for the past 50 years or more. As a result, their former range and numbers have shrunk dramatically. Although it is true that large concentrations of prairie dogs can damage cultivated crops or compete seriously with livestock, the wisdom of eliminating them entirely from rangelands has not been proven. Ranchers in certain parts of Texas, for example, claim that removal of prairie dogs is related to the undesirable spread of brush. This has had detrimental effects on the livestock industry which far outweighs the damage prairie dogs might do.
Go ahead and try to wipe out the white footed mouse. You would have to nuke half the US to wipe that little guy out. We could just stop wiping out its natural predators. Foxes, coyotes, snakes, the native cats, wolves, etc.
Through March 26, 2007, a total of 465 cases of hantavirus pulmonary syndrome have been reported in the United States. The case count started when the disease was first recognized in May 1993.
Thirty-five percent of all reported cases have resulted in death.
Of persons ill with HPS, 64% have been male, 37% female.
The mean age of confirmed case patients is 38 years (range: 10 to 83 years).
HPS can strike anyone; however, whites currently account for 78% of all cases.
American Indians account for about 19% of cases...
http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/diseases/hanta/hps/noframes/caseinfo.htm
Results. The mean age of the patients was 32.2 years (range, 13 to 64); 61 percent were women, 72 percent were Native American, 22 percent white, and 6 percent Hispanic.
I'm just musing here, but to what degree do prairie dogs play a role in topsoil development? They may be one of those necessary evils in rotating a soil from time to time else the mycorrhizal crusts can stop the grass from developing into an aerated organic layer. One might think they help the nitrogen penetrate deeper into subsoils as well.
One could thus chase them from spot to spot whether by hunting or careful use of predators. I think I'll give a ring to one of my buddies who consults for the Deseret Ranch. He'd probably know.
Besides that, have you noted the perversion of these people? They are obsessed with the sex organs of their prey. For most of their prey species, they eat the gonads and throw everything else away. They are sick, sick people.
What!
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An important point that deserves to be emphasized more.
Oranges.
Apples.
Cucumbers.
Tomatoes.
Nuts.
Seeds.
Wheat.
All sex organs.
Neglected to include you in ping for post 111.
The chain of effect is larger than the RAM on my PC.
“You’ll be accused of being a testosterone challenged cheese eating surrender monkey because you don’t like drinking beer and heading out to the country with your toothless cohorts and killing anything that moves.”
You apparently don’t like hunting, or hunters.
I don’t suppose you know who pays for the reintroduction/management of all wildlife (both game and non game, non hunted)in this country. Who has raised billions in tax dollars (taxes on hunting equipment, and taxes hunters lobbied for to bring back many species)?
I’ll give you a few clues — It ain’t the Sierra Club,the Humane Society of the U.S., or wanna be wildlife biologists who reside in concrete jungles in cities, and receive their education about wildlife management from Disney films, the Animal Planet, or HSUS news releases.
Your statement about hunters is disgusting and ignorant.
“The prairie dog is going the way of the American Bison, the black bear, the red wolf, gray wolf, black footed ferret, and the jaguar.”
I didn’t know the black bear was endangered. Heck, the biologists here say the population is the highest it’s been in more than a century. That’s mostly because of federal funding on hunting equipment has been used for decades to reintroduce, manage and purchase habitat for this and many other once threatened species. Those toothless, beer drinking hunters pay for this.
And wolf hunting seasons have just been established in some western states, since the reintroduction has been so successful.
If you really want to help wildlife, you should consider buying a hunting license, whether you use it to hunt or not. They don’t even require you have teeth to purchase one.
There are colonies that stretch for miles along the highway.
The health dept. kills them after a colony gets infected with the plague and the next year they're back.
They're not going away.
If you want to make sure this wonderful 'native species' survives...come here and catch some of them.
Oops! They forgot to ban hunting ban proponents.
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