The C.A.S.H. Courier Newsletter
Summer-Fall 2012 Issue
Hunting is a crime against wildlife and the natural world
“Hunting is a crime against wildlife and the natural world.”
Letter to Taos News 8-11-12
To the Editor:
A recent article
mentioned a bill introduced by Rep. Martin Heinrich which would require
several government agencies to develop a plan to provide sport hunters
access to federal lands previously out of reach. Bill HR 6086 is harmful
and should be opposed by those of us who wish to preserve and protect
wildlife and their habitat.
Hunters already have access to millions
of acres of land on which to needlessly kill wildlife and HR 6086
threatens to befoul some of our last remaining natural areas outside of
wilderness, national parks & national monuments. It is supported by
extremist special interest groups that promote violence as recreation
and will degrade our natural world even further than it has already been
degraded.
The sport hunting industry is in panic mode. Every year
there are fewer people who hunt and the age of the average hunter
increases (according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service 72% of
hunters are aged 35 or older). Hunters are dying or otherwise dropping
out of the sport faster than young people can be recruited and this
threatens state and federal hunting agencies that depend upon hunters to
fund their wildlife-killing programs.
Hunting is a crime against
wildlife and the natural world. To learn what you can do to prevent this
bill from becoming law, join our members and supporters in New Mexico
and throughout the country in visiting www.AbolishSportHunting.org. The
future of wildlife and habitat rests in our hands.
Joe Miele,
President
The Committee to Abolish Sport Hunting
Box 13815
Las
Cruces, NM 88013-3815
575-640-7372
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