ASK UNCLE JIM
By Jim Robertson Dear Uncle Jim, Looking through the list of Hunting Accidents on the C.A.S.H. website, I see that a fall from a tree stand is one of the most common accidents for every year recorded. Why do you suppose there are so many hunting accidents involving tree stands? Lynn G., Springfield, MA Dear… ASK…
Police Hunting for Deer Poachers
January 5, 2012 By John Perera, MyFoxHouston.com HOUSTON – Police are looking for two men seen near the site of an illegally killed deer in…
Latest DNR enforcement report
January 4, 2012 From MankatoFreePress.com CO – Jeff Denz (Willmar) followed up on a deer that was found illegally dumped on private property. He also…
Hunting deer with my flintlock: I hate to kill, but if I do, it has to hurt
January 8, 2012 By Seamus McGraw, Post-Gazette.com Writer SEAMUS McGRAW explains why he walks the Pennsylvania woods with a weapon from the past She took…
Response to letter referencing Biblical scripture
Re: Kill The Bears… And deer and rabbits 12 September 2007 Dear M.D. Yandach: Thank you for contacting the Committee to Abolish Sport Hunting. In your message to us, you wrote: “God put them on earth to feed humans. He even designed our tooth structure to consume meat. So it…
Colorado Trap Ban Challenge
To openforum@denverpost.com 9/14/07 To The Editor: In 1996 voters approved Amendment 14 to the state constitutional which prohibited the use of leghold traps, instant-kill traps, snares and poison – cruel and inhumane methods previously used to capture or kill wildlife. The issue has resurfaced because of a challenge to the…
New York Fur – Letter to the Editor
To the New York Observer to editorial@observer.com 9/14/07 To The Editor: While the recent article that touched on Michael Kors’ show during the latest Fashion Week mentioned the protests over the designer’s use of animal fur, it hardly gave the issue the attention it deserved. The presence of protesters illustrates…
Lead shot is toxic
400 wd LTE’s to Jackson Hole News & Guide editor@jhnewsandguide.com Cody Enterprise – http://www.codyenterprise.com/ Casper Star Tribune – letters@casperstartribune.net 14 Sep 2007 To The Editor: One of the things hunting organizations always claim is that hunters are environmentalists who care for the natural world. If this is the case, why…
Bucky and Snowball
150 words to the Oregonian – letters@news.oregonian.com 9/20/07 To The Editor: In defending its treatment of “Bucky and “Snowball” the deer, the Department of Fish & Wildlife has said that deer “belong to everybody in the state of Oregon, not just a few people.” If this is indeed the case,…
Squirrel Hunting
LTE’s to the Sturgis Journal (SD) newsroom@sturgisjournal.com 9/20/07 To The Editor: Overpopulation, starvation and public safety are excuses routinely used by the state’s hunters and the Department of Game, Fish and Parks to support sport hunting. Without hunting they say, wildlife would face terrible consequences. The department is unable to…
Dove Hunting
Orange County News – Orange, TX. 200 wd LTE’s to OCN@hearstnp.com 9/21/07 To The Editor: Thankfully, it seems that the tradition of dove hunting in Texas is quickly coming to an end. Though the Parks and Wildlife Department reported that in the ten-years ending last year, the number of Texas’…
Youth Hunting
300 wds to the Marquette, MI Mining Journal http://24.213.59.98/vnr/add_submission.asp?categoryID=484&publicationID=74 Escanaba Daily Press – less than 500 wds to http://24.213.59.98/vnr/add_submission.asp?categoryID=718&publicationID=77 Sault St. Marie Evening News – less than 500 wds to editor@sooeveningnews.com 379 wds 9/24/07 To The Editor: On Saturday morning, the state DNR opened a two-day special hunting season designed…
Wisconsin Hunting Season
LTE sent to the La Crosse Tribune – 250 wds to 9/24/07 To The Editor: Once again we hear the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources claiming that hunting is needed to help to keep the deer population under control, but what game managers do not mention is that the overpopulation…
Wildlife Watch’s LTE to the West Milford Messenger
9/28/07 To The Editor: The New Jersey legislature is considering common sense legislation that would change the way the state’s wildlife is managed, but this legislation is opposed by the special interests of the hunting industry in favor of maintaining the unbalanced status quo. The Fish and Game Council sets…
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