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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. |
My cats wipe them out! The deer mice in Colorado carry the hantavirus.
Our best friend works for the health dept. and has to kill entire colonies every year because of the plague.
Domestic animals who go near the colonies, pick up the fleas and bring them home.
They die and sometimes they pass it on to their owners.
We have 5-10 cases of the plague every year where we live.
Wasn’t offering a grammar lesson - I know many here try. I guess what I was illustrating that the differences on either side of the Cascade Curtain are so great, it may as well be two different states.
I trust your livelihood doesn't depend upon tourism then....
My son and I just signed up for a table for 8 for next Thursday night for the local FRiends of the NRA. Sounds like I am getting another Shotgun plus a chance at the give away drawing...
Good. Then don't friggin do it. But I will every chance I get.
Because they are diease ridden and destroy property for one. Its not for sport, believe me. They nothing more than cute looking moles.
Point out the prairie dog that is endangered and we won't kill it, but the rest are toast!
Don’t the fleas carry the plague?
Is that You Obama?
Wow, it is difficult to post a reply while clutching a few of my guns!
Nope...I’m a native like the prairie dog.
technically...they are squirrels.
The only people getting hanta virus are native americans living in third world conditions.
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 don’t believe that you should exterminate a species because a parasitic vector (flea) is spreading a disease. It’s like using a 15 sledge hammer to drive a nail to hang a picture. It’s not necessary.
That’s one of my favorite pics!!! LOL
Well this is tough to do...but I’ll apologize since that is so unlike me to lose my temper. I don’t know you, but I know better than to treat fellow FReepers with such disdain. I don’t know the whole story behind this, but I do know from personal experience in surveying these mammals that they are threatened with extinction. We shouldn’t be shooting them anymore. They used to number in the hundreds of millions just a hundred years ago.
Sweet...these cycle ok in a ruger?
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