URGENT OREGON WILDLIFE ALERT............IMPLORE GOVERNOR KITZHABER TO VETO HB3636.............."EVERY WHICH WAY BUT LOOSE" AS OREGON FISH & WILDLIFE" FORGES AN END AROUND WAY FOR HUNTERS TO further kill off Carnivores of every type in this State(even if protected under Oregon law)............As always, our friends at PREDATOR DEFENSE are "johnny on the spot" fighting this blasphemy at every turn.........They deserve our support in stomping out this blaze!!!!!

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From: Predator Defense <brooks@predatordefense.org>
Date: Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 8:00 PM
Subject: URGENT OREGON WILDLIFE ALERT: 6-30-11 GOVERNOR MUST VETO HB3636,
To:

LAST MINUTE BILL PASSED GIVING YET MORE FUNDING TO KILL COUGARS, BEARS, FUR BEARERS, COYOTES, AND WOLVES!!!

IMMEDIATELY CONTACT GOVERNOR KITZHABER AND ASK HIM TO VETO HB3636!!!  PASS THIS ONTO YOUR FRIENDS, CO WORKERS, FACEBOOK PAGES ETC.

HB3636 provides a checkoff on all hunting licenses and tags for hunters to donate money to kill predators.  It includes not only 'predatory animals', as defined in state statute as feral swine, coyotes, rabbits, rodents and destructive birds, but also specifically includes cougars, bears, fur bearers and wolves which are an endangered species in Oregon.  The funds will be allocated to the county where hunting takes place.

Federal agents from the USDA Wildlife Services program operating in counties will use the funds to kill more predators, using their usual 'tools' of bullets, deadly poisons, snares, traps, packs of hound and by aerial gunning (shooting them from aircraft).  

During the legislative session, over $500,000 tax dollars were allocated to Oregon Department of Agriculture and Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife budgets to fund Wildlife Service trappers throughout the state to kill predatory animals, as defined above. In addition to this amount, HB3560, the wolf compensation bill, giving an additional $100,000 of tax money specifically for wolf killing, is waiting for the governor's signature. HB3636 is especially heinous because it targets the game species of cougars and bears, and wolves an endangered species in Oregon.  

Programs for education, the disabled and elderly etc. are cut to the bone; we cannot afford over half a million tax dollars to pay federal agents to kill wildlife.

ASK GOVERNOR KITZHABER TO VETO HB3636, CONTACT HIM AT:

• Governor John Kitzhaber, representative.citizen@state.or.us, 503-378-3111

Your letters and calls make a difference and send an important message to Governor Kitzhaber.  He needs to hear from us, he is already hearing from ranchers and hunters.  PASS THIS ONTO FACEBOOK PAGES AND YOUR FAMILY, FRIENDS, CO WORKERS ETC.

THANK YOU, 

Sally Mackler

Oregon Carnivore Rep

Predator Defense

Eugene, Oregon
http://www.predatordefense.org/