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Date: Thu, 02 Dec 1999 13:29:44 -0700
From: Wildlife Damage Review <[log in to unmask]>
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Subject: calling all ethical hunters....
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Dear Wildlife Damage Review members, although many of you may not be
hunters or fisherpersons, there is a need for an ethical hunter and
fisher organization like the one described below. Those who are
inspired, please contact the author, George Wuerthner.


A HUNTERS VOICE
SUPPORTING WILDLANDS AND BIODIVERSITY
POB BOX 3156, EUGENE, ORGON 97403   541-684-7872
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PRESS RELEASE: NEW ORGANIZATION OF HUNTERS FOR WILDLANDS AND
BIODIVERSITY
PRESERVATION.

CONTACT: GEORGE WUERTHNER, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

      A HUNTERS VOICE is a new organization of hunters and non-hunters
formed
to provide an identified hunters voice on a host of natural resource
issues.
A HUNTERS VOICE, in the tradition of Aldo Leopold, will be an articulate
spokesperson for ecological integrity.  A HUNTERS VOICE supports greater
wildlands protection, and the restoration of native ecosystems, native
species, including predators, and natural ecological processes.

       Executive Director, George Wuerthner, a former hunting guide, says
that many hunting organizations are perceived to be anti predator, pro
roads, anti park and wilderness protection, and supporters of anything
that
someone calls "hunting". This has allowed right wing politicians and
anti
wildlands opponents to claim they represent all hunters.  Says
Wuerthner,
"Many hunters, including myself, see wildlands protection and native
species
restoration as a prerequisite to a quality hunting experience. Nothing
thrills me more than to come upon a wolf track when I'm out stalking a
deer
or elk."

       A HUNTERS VOICE will work for the restoration of predators like
wolves
and grizzlies. We will be a hunter's voice supporting parks, refuges,
and
wilderness. We will support road closures on public lands, and other
measures that provide greater protection for all wildlife. We will even
oppose some forms of mindless killing like prairie dog contests and
indiscriminate predator control.

        Among the positions A HUNTERS VOICE supports is the continued
restoration of wolves in Idaho, Wyoming, Montana and the Southwest. We
also
want wolves restored to Oregon, Washington, Colorado, Utah, Texas,
California, New England and the Adirondacks. We oppose the efforts of
groups
now forming in Montana and Idaho that promote wolf eradication and
control
in Yellowstone and Central Idaho. We endorse creation of a Maine Woods
National Park in Maine, a Hells Canyon National Park in Oregon,
protection
of southern Utah Canyon country, and wilderness protection for all BLM
roadless lands in Alaska. We support restoration of grizzly bears to
Idaho's
Central Idaho Wilderness. Recognizing the keystone influence of prairie
dogs
to grassland ecosystems, we are opposed to prairie dog hunting and
indiscriminate control.

       For more information, contact George Wuerthner.

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