Hunting Ban Being Discussed in Colorado!

NRA - ILA ^ | April 18, 2008 | NA

[neverdem]

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Hunting Ban Being Discussed in Colorado!

Friday, April 18, 2008

Please Make Plans to Attend

The Colorado Wildlife Commission will meet to discuss a complete ban on prairie dog hunting in the state of Colorado on May 1-2.  While radical anti-hunting/animal rights groups are targeting prairie dog hunting as cruel, it is a traditional sporting activity and necessary management tool, especially for ranching interests in the state.  Ban proponents like the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) have boasted that they seek to ban all hunting in the United States "species by species" and this proposal is one more incremental step in their plan to end our hunting heritage. 

 

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.

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Find this item at: http://www.nraila.org/Legislation/Read.aspx?ID=3842

[SkyDancer]

Those rodents are responsible for many broken legs in horses and cattle - plus they can carry bubonic plague (have) ... at least here in Washington we can still go out and shoot them. I wonder if this group will try to outlaw the killing of mice and rats too ...

[neverdem]

This is good. It helps to get out the word about how radical the Humane Society of the United States really is. If you check them out, you find that they have no relation with your local animal shelter or local Humane Society.

[SandRat]

.. radical anti-hunting/animal rights groups are targeting prairie dog hunting as cruel, it is a traditional sporting activity and necessary management tool, especially for ranching interests in the state. Ban proponents like the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) have boasted that they seek to ban all hunting in the United States "species by species" and this proposal is one more incremental step in their plan to end our hunting heritage.

Next thing you know they'll want us all to become VEGANS.

[tubebender]

Bump for later...

[Cicero]

I don’t think there’s any shortage of prairie dogs.

[I got the rope]

Many of them are endangered. Why in the hell would anyone kill an animal for sport? It’s childish.

[righthand man]

bump

[george76]

( have ) ( do ) ( will ) carry bubonic plague ...

[Hoplite]

"And now, Mr. Secretary General, Vice President Cheney here will take you on a sightseeing tour of the Rockies."

[rellimpank]

—I’d like to see them hold the meeting in Rocky Ford or LaJunta-—

[ElmoMobito]

Once lived on the edge of an area populated with these animals - Colorado. We were regularly receiving bubonic plague warnings on our door and in the mail from health officials.

bubonic plague

That is one of the reason’s they are shot.

[I got the rope]

So do mice and rats...but you don’t see us wiping out the native mice and rat species of the North American plains for a rare disease.

[elpadre]

if they succeed in banning one, the door will be open to ban others. That is their MO in all leftie attacks.

[Max in Utah]

...but you don’t see us wiping out the native mice and rat species...

Mice and rats don't make such an impressive cloud of pink mist when they're hit with a high-velocity bullet.

[I got the rope]

The black-tailed prairie dog used to be all over the Western plains, but you don’t see them anymore. I believe they are only 1% of their original population. When I was young I would see a few of their prairie dog towns, but they are gone.

They are an easy target. That is why dipshits shoot them. I don’t believe that bubonic plague nonsense one bit. They used to do the same thing with rabies for years. It’s more of the “I’m from the government I here to help” nonsense.

[I got the rope]

Exactly.

[george76]

Wiping out ?

Hardly.

The problem is too many.

Even lefties in Boulder get it.

[MrPiper]

So do mice and rats...but you don’t see us wiping out the native mice and rat species of the North American plains for a rare disease.

I'm sure you let rats/mice run around your yard? I work as an operator in a grain elevator and there are about 10 poison stations per floor, 40 floors. Do the math. (Ya, we are trying to wipe them out)

Personally,If I were a groud hog/rat/vermin,etc I'd rather be shot(exploded)by a high power rifle than poison/eaten alive by snakes/birds/cats,etc. Thats just me.

[stormer]

“Those rodents are responsible for many broken legs in horses and cattle...”

Myth.

From a Smithsonian excerpt http://www.catherinedold.com/fpdogs.htm:

Ranchers also fear prairie dog invasions because of the “broken leg” phenomenon.

But that always seems to have happened to someone else. “There has never been a documented case of that happening except in John Wayne movies,” says Sharps. “Those are old wives’ tales.” Sharps tells of posing the broken leg question at a conference in South Dakota. “I had a captive audience of a couple hundred ranchers.

I said, ‘If anyone knows of a cow or a horse that has broken a leg in a prairie dog town, please raise your hand.’ Nothing. Silence. It’s a myth. Everyone says, ‘Oh, yeah, I’ve heard that,’ but when it comes right down to it, they can’t come up with anything.”