Russell
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North Dakota sportsmen’s liberties are under attack. A group calling itself ‘North Dakota Hunters for Fair Chase’ is circulating petitions to place an anti-hunting initiative on the 2010 General Election ballot. This misleading effort is anti-freedom and anti-private property rights, and ADWA encourages sportsmen to refuse these petitions.
Violating America’s basic principles of private property rights and stripping away sportsmen’s liberty to decide for themselves how and where to hunt, the proposed initiative would ban private big game hunting preserves in North Dakota, a long-standing tradition in the state. Hunting ethics should be decided by individual hunters, not by politically-motivated laws supported by radical animal “rights” groups. In addition, the group behind this initiative falsely advertises preserves as a very small pen or cage, when most preserves amount to thousands of acres.
Initiatives pertaining to hunting laws politicize the state’s wildlife management policies, which is contrary to the North American Model of Wildlife Management that has made North Dakota’s wildlife populations and rich ecosystems the envy of the world. Hunting and wildlife management strategies should always be rooted in science, and not driven by a wealthy few who can produce the most emotionally appealing 30-second television commercial during an initiative campaign.
This initiative effort is supported by the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS), a Washington D.C.-based lobbying organization that spends $120 million a year in an effort to end all hunting and animal agriculture in the United States.
From: American Deer and Wildlife Alliance Newsletter
Violating America’s basic principles of private property rights and stripping away sportsmen’s liberty to decide for themselves how and where to hunt, the proposed initiative would ban private big game hunting preserves in North Dakota, a long-standing tradition in the state. Hunting ethics should be decided by individual hunters, not by politically-motivated laws supported by radical animal “rights” groups. In addition, the group behind this initiative falsely advertises preserves as a very small pen or cage, when most preserves amount to thousands of acres.
Initiatives pertaining to hunting laws politicize the state’s wildlife management policies, which is contrary to the North American Model of Wildlife Management that has made North Dakota’s wildlife populations and rich ecosystems the envy of the world. Hunting and wildlife management strategies should always be rooted in science, and not driven by a wealthy few who can produce the most emotionally appealing 30-second television commercial during an initiative campaign.
This initiative effort is supported by the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS), a Washington D.C.-based lobbying organization that spends $120 million a year in an effort to end all hunting and animal agriculture in the United States.
From: American Deer and Wildlife Alliance Newsletter
