Here are the kind of lies the Indiana morons in opposition to high fence hunting publish. They forgot to mention the Courts ruled we are 100% legal and that the Summer Study committee visited a preserve first hand and like what they saw and realized they had been lied to from all these made up organizations.
Long story short, this letter was sent out to all Indiana newspapers as a letter to the editor.
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Hoosiers Don’t Shoot Livestock.
Indiana's Whitetail deer were once eliminated at the last turn of the Century by unregulated and commercial hunting. Led by Conservationists and paid for by sportsmen's dollars, the Indiana DNR has successfully restored whitetail deer to the abundance we Hoosiers all enjoy. Today over a quarter of a million hunters annually take to the field to enjoy viewing and possibly harvesting a deer. Millions more enjoy viewing this animal in the wild as a symbol of wild America.
However, Indiana's wild deer, as well as the sport which funds the management of the IDNR, are threatened once again by attempts to commercialize the animal and the sport. Representatives Sean Eberhart, David Ober and Don Lehe have introduced Legislation in the form of HB 1453 which would legalize the shooting of domestic farm raised deer in a penned enclosure for a large sum of money. For the last 15 years, the Industry has lobbied the legislature to allow this practice called "canned hunting� and we have seen at least one bill authored almost every year.
Despite the IDNR banning canned hunts, despite a lengthy, extremely informative Indy Star expose’ that laid open the industry for all to judge, despite the biggest Indiana canned hunt operator being convicted of running illegal canned hunts, despite a Legislative Summer Study Committee in which experts from across the nation warned of the spread of a fatal deer disease through the movement of captive deer into the killing pens, our legislators may still legalize canned hunting.
Every major deer hunting organization, conservation group, environmental group and a huge majority of the public are against this abomination.
Unless the public acts and calls their legislators and Governor Pence, HB 1453, the "canned hunting bill", may become law. Tell them, “Hoosiers don't shoot livestock."
Doug Allman Glenn Lange
Indiana Wildlife Federation Indiana Chapter of The Wildlife Society
Gene Hopkins Jeff Wells
Indiana Sportsmen’s Round Table Indiana Conservation Officer Organization
Joe Bacon James Turpin
Indiana Deer Hunters Association Quality Deer Management Association
Herb Higgins Chuck Bauer
Indiana Bow Hunter Association Indiana Div. of the Izaak Walton League of America
Long story short, this letter was sent out to all Indiana newspapers as a letter to the editor.
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Hoosiers Don’t Shoot Livestock.
Indiana's Whitetail deer were once eliminated at the last turn of the Century by unregulated and commercial hunting. Led by Conservationists and paid for by sportsmen's dollars, the Indiana DNR has successfully restored whitetail deer to the abundance we Hoosiers all enjoy. Today over a quarter of a million hunters annually take to the field to enjoy viewing and possibly harvesting a deer. Millions more enjoy viewing this animal in the wild as a symbol of wild America.
However, Indiana's wild deer, as well as the sport which funds the management of the IDNR, are threatened once again by attempts to commercialize the animal and the sport. Representatives Sean Eberhart, David Ober and Don Lehe have introduced Legislation in the form of HB 1453 which would legalize the shooting of domestic farm raised deer in a penned enclosure for a large sum of money. For the last 15 years, the Industry has lobbied the legislature to allow this practice called "canned hunting� and we have seen at least one bill authored almost every year.
Despite the IDNR banning canned hunts, despite a lengthy, extremely informative Indy Star expose’ that laid open the industry for all to judge, despite the biggest Indiana canned hunt operator being convicted of running illegal canned hunts, despite a Legislative Summer Study Committee in which experts from across the nation warned of the spread of a fatal deer disease through the movement of captive deer into the killing pens, our legislators may still legalize canned hunting.
Every major deer hunting organization, conservation group, environmental group and a huge majority of the public are against this abomination.
Unless the public acts and calls their legislators and Governor Pence, HB 1453, the "canned hunting bill", may become law. Tell them, “Hoosiers don't shoot livestock."
Doug Allman Glenn Lange
Indiana Wildlife Federation Indiana Chapter of The Wildlife Society
Gene Hopkins Jeff Wells
Indiana Sportsmen’s Round Table Indiana Conservation Officer Organization
Joe Bacon James Turpin
Indiana Deer Hunters Association Quality Deer Management Association
Herb Higgins Chuck Bauer
Indiana Bow Hunter Association Indiana Div. of the Izaak Walton League of America
