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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. |
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 ...
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.
Next thing you know they'll want us all to become VEGANS.
Bump for later...
I don’t think there’s any shortage of prairie dogs.
Many of them are endangered. Why in the hell would anyone kill an animal for sport? It’s childish.
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( have ) ( do ) ( will ) carry bubonic plague ...
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| "And now, Mr. Secretary General, Vice President Cheney here will take you on a sightseeing tour of the Rockies." |
—I’d like to see them hold the meeting in Rocky Ford or LaJunta-—
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.
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.
Mice and rats don't make such an impressive cloud of pink mist when they're hit with a high-velocity bullet.
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.
Exactly.
Wiping out ?
Hardly.
The problem is too many.
Even lefties in Boulder get it.
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.
“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.”
” mice and rats...”
Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS) is a deadly disease from rodents. Humans can contract the disease when they come into contact with infected rodents or their urine and droppings.
HPS was first recognized in 1993 and has since been identified throughout the United States. Although rare, HPS is potentially deadly.
Rodent control in and around the home remains the primary strategy for preventing hantavirus infection.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/diseases/hanta/hps/
The latest survey in Texas by Dr. Schmidly of Texas Tech places this species at a 98% habitat loss. Some states are a lot worse. From what I understand a coalition of 8 states have been petitioning the USFW to take it from threatened to endangered.
It makes me sick that the white man is killing off another native species of the plains.
Bushmaster M4 A3
Should be happening this way: Hunters are targeting prairie dogs but are hitting anti-hunting/animal rights with good groups. (groupings)
You crack me up!
They are destructive rodents.
Nothing wrong with shooting...as long as the right rodents (people) get shot.
Clint Eastwood
Dirty Harry
Plague is an infectious disease of animals and humans caused by a bacterium named Yersinia pestis.
People usually get plague from being bitten by a rodent flea that is carrying the plague bacterium or by handling an infected animal. Millions of people in Europe died from plague in the Middle Ages, when human homes and places of work were inhabited by flea-infested rats.
Wild rodents in certain areas around the world are infected with plague. Outbreaks in people still occur in rural communities or in cities.
Globally, the World Health Organization reports 1,000 to 3,000 cases of plague every year.
In North America, plague is found in certain animals and their fleas from the Pacific Coast to the Great Plains, and from southwestern Canada to Mexico.
Most human cases in the United States occur in two regions: 1) northern New Mexico, northern Arizona, and southern Colorado; and 2) California, southern Oregon, and far western Nevada.
http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvbid/plague/
Bubonic plague got so bad where I live that, a few years ago, the government came out an exterminated most of these rodents. They’ve come back stronger than ever. You can never completely wipe out rodents in an area. They’ll always come back.
That is a good description of those perverts at the humane society of the united states.
Despite the words “humane society” on its letterhead, the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) is not affiliated with your local animal shelter. Despite the omnipresent dogs and cats in its fundraising materials, it’s not an organization that runs spay/neuter programs or takes in stray, neglected, and abused pets. And despite the common image of animal protection agencies as cash-strapped organizations dedicated to animal welfare, HSUS has become the wealthiest animal rights organization on earth.
More: http://www.activistcash.com/organization_overview.cfm/oid/136
Marlin 981T
Loaded with this:
Ummmm - Then I suggest you come to eastern WA -.....
Reminds me of when Michael Corleone shot the Turk between the eyes
Hey dipshit; why don’t you take a really long hike due east...
There are lots of hunting bans already, nimrod. Ever hear of the endangered species list? Hunting for subsistance is acceptable; sport hunting is an abomination in the eyes of god and a violation of our biblical duty to exercise dominion over the earth.
This is not a left or right issue—it has nothing to do with gun control.
The bubonic plague stuff is nonsense. There haven’t been more than a dozen cases of that in the last 50 years and it’s fully treatable nowadays. Not worse than a flu.
Why in the hell would anyone kill an animal for sport?
target practice ??? elimination of varmints that endanger valuable livestock ???
reason enough for me...
“Why in the hell would anyone kill an animal for sport?”
Because it is easier, cheaper, and more productive than setting rat traps.
Colorado Dept. of Wildlife webpage on the black-tail prairie dog and possible ban is below. Note that a ban would not bar private property owners from shooting the critters:
“3. Recreational Shooting – CDOW is currently considering a ban on hunting black-tailed prairie dogs within the state. If adopted, this regulation would still not prevent private landowners from exercising their option to hunt the species for the purposes of controlling damage to crops, real or personal property, or livestock. Nevertheless, a ban on most hunting would reduce the impact of recreational shooting on black-tailed prairie dog populations.
In the event that a complete ban on hunting is not politically feasible, then CDOW could consider instituting a hunting season and bag limits, with the season being closed during the species peak reproductive period.
4. Control Programs – CDOW is already considering a permitting system for prairie dog poisoning efforts, one that would set limits to the total number of prairie dogs, or the total acres of prairie dogs, that are poisoned each year.
CDOW might also consider setting limits based on geographic area (e.g., by county), so that control efforts do not jeopardize the geographic diversity inherent in the state’s population of the species.
But what will have now do for a living?
Yep. Good bullet placement.
Add a “he” in there above somewhere.
You must be mighty proud.
If and only if its replaced with a year long open season on hippies and liberals with no bag limit.
The Smithsonian is hardly an unbiased source.
Of course. We all know the real aim of the editors of Smithsonian Magazine is to subvert “The American Way”.
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