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Grizzly bears, black bears, wolves, coyotes, cougars/ mountain lions,bobcats, wolverines, lynx, foxes, fishers and martens are the suite of carnivores that originally inhabited North America after the Pleistocene extinctions. This site invites research, commentary, point/counterpoint on that suite of native animals (predator and prey) that inhabited The Americas circa 1500-at the initial point of European exploration and subsequent colonization. Landscape ecology, journal accounts of explorers and frontiersmen, genetic evaluations of museum animals, peer reviewed 20th and 21st century research on various aspects of our "Wild America" as well as subjective commentary from expert and layman alike. All of the above being revealed and discussed with the underlying goal of one day seeing our Continent rewilded.....Where big enough swaths of open space exist with connective corridors to other large forest, meadow, mountain, valley, prairie, desert and chaparral wildlands.....Thereby enabling all of our historic fauna, including man, to live in a sustainable and healthy environment. - Blogger Rick

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Friday, July 1, 2011

Sally Mackler at PREDATOR DEFENSE alerted me this morning that Oregon HB3636(allowing citizens to donate $$ for carnivore killing when they get their hunting tags) got a YES VOTE yesterday in the House................Only the Govenor can stop the bill from becoming law now.................Contact Gov. Kitzhaber and let him know that he must veto this bill that ups the killing ante on the few wolves who now call Oregon home

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 Services 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/

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