Stop Killing of WI black bears - Sept.9/7,310 licenses sold
Target:
DNR Secretary Matt Frank, Rep. Spencer Black, all the WI legislature
WE NEED WISCONSIN CITIZENS TO SIGN!
PLEASE EMAIL YOUR WI MAILING LIST!
The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources has issued an unprecedented 7,310 kill licenses, targeting the kill of 4,585 indigenous black bears between Wednesday, September 9 and October 13, 2009. This will be a bloodbath, with packs of dogs and armed men trespassing private land all over "bear country." The most bears ever killed before in one season in Wisconsin were 3100 killed in 1998. Two-thirds of the black bears killed will be babies born this spring or yearlings still with their mothers. They will be run down by packs of up to 18 dogs (or more, since Wisconsin has the lowest warden to hunter ratio in the country), and shot out of trees. It will not be humane. There is a lot of drinking that goes on with hunting and hounding. Or they will be killed over bait piles, as hunters sit in their lounge chairs or tree stands, where the bears have been accustomed to feed, for this purpose.
The DNR raised the bear kill quota by 60% this year, based on a "preliminary" study, done by a UW professor and student, with this study paid for by the Wisconsin Bear Hunters' Association and Wisconsin Trapper's Association. This professor has done other suspect work financed by the head-hunting group, Safari International. Either the DNR has been totally inept for the past 50 years (I vote for that one) or they are totally inept now (and I fear this is a double whammy) in announcing that suddenly, this year, there are TWICE AS MANY BEARS in Wisconsin as they thought!
No hearings were held with alternative population control methods offered. The solution is always the same for the DNR - a killing spree and more killing licenses for their special hunter and trapper citizen elite. More money to stock more killing.
As usual, (as has gone on for 75 years in our state), this year 6800 exclusively hunters and trappers proposed expansion of killing and passed it through, without general public input or public knowledge of the hearings. This yearly expansion of the hunter kill wish list goes on every year, unchecked, in a time of unprecedented habitat loss, species' losses and human-caused degradation of the earth and its climate. We have a responsibility to redefine our relationship to the wild as humane stewards - rather than farm it for maximum ego killing. Taking a living being to turn it into a decorative possession - death over styrofoam for ego display, is an obscenity against all of nature.
Black bears are highly intelligent, playful, peaceable (far more peaceful then men) beings, and they do not deserve this "man-agement" assault for trophy and recreation. In Wisconsin, the public still accepts killing for heads on walls, killing for trophy and taxidermy, trapping with conibear, steel jaw, and snare traps - all crimes against nature. No being, especially our sacred innocent and defenseless wild bears, deserve to be treated so cruelly.
We, the undersigned citizens of Wisconsin honor our wildlife by protesting this hounding, baiting and killing of our wild bears who intend no harm, and try to live with us in peace. We treated the indigenous Indians this way - we have created a false hierarchy. Not so long ago, men hounded black people into trees and hung them. This is the same mentality. It must end with a Department of Natural Resources that, as is its mission statement, PROTECTS our resources (the bears), represents ALL citizens (even the majority who do not kill) and does not sell our wildlife off for killing to a special interest group.
We demand that this form of management stop once and for all, and that we find humane ways to manage bear populations. It causes massive chaos for all citizens living in the area, and disruption of all wildlife. Since bears hibernate in the winters, we could form a HUMANE FORCE to spay and neuter some bears, if necessary.
We, the undersigned, demand that this hunt be ended for lack of democratic citizen hearings and input. Defend your rights to ARM BEARS! And the best way to arm bears is by educating yourself about the true nature of bears, reading the WSJ outdoors pages ongoingly, attending the annual election of delegates in every county the second Monday in April, and signing this petition.
PLEASE EMAIL YOUR WI MAILING LIST!
The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources has issued an unprecedented 7,310 kill licenses, targeting the kill of 4,585 indigenous black bears between Wednesday, September 9 and October 13, 2009. This will be a bloodbath, with packs of dogs and armed men trespassing private land all over "bear country." The most bears ever killed before in one season in Wisconsin were 3100 killed in 1998. Two-thirds of the black bears killed will be babies born this spring or yearlings still with their mothers. They will be run down by packs of up to 18 dogs (or more, since Wisconsin has the lowest warden to hunter ratio in the country), and shot out of trees. It will not be humane. There is a lot of drinking that goes on with hunting and hounding. Or they will be killed over bait piles, as hunters sit in their lounge chairs or tree stands, where the bears have been accustomed to feed, for this purpose.
The DNR raised the bear kill quota by 60% this year, based on a "preliminary" study, done by a UW professor and student, with this study paid for by the Wisconsin Bear Hunters' Association and Wisconsin Trapper's Association. This professor has done other suspect work financed by the head-hunting group, Safari International. Either the DNR has been totally inept for the past 50 years (I vote for that one) or they are totally inept now (and I fear this is a double whammy) in announcing that suddenly, this year, there are TWICE AS MANY BEARS in Wisconsin as they thought!
No hearings were held with alternative population control methods offered. The solution is always the same for the DNR - a killing spree and more killing licenses for their special hunter and trapper citizen elite. More money to stock more killing.
As usual, (as has gone on for 75 years in our state), this year 6800 exclusively hunters and trappers proposed expansion of killing and passed it through, without general public input or public knowledge of the hearings. This yearly expansion of the hunter kill wish list goes on every year, unchecked, in a time of unprecedented habitat loss, species' losses and human-caused degradation of the earth and its climate. We have a responsibility to redefine our relationship to the wild as humane stewards - rather than farm it for maximum ego killing. Taking a living being to turn it into a decorative possession - death over styrofoam for ego display, is an obscenity against all of nature.
Black bears are highly intelligent, playful, peaceable (far more peaceful then men) beings, and they do not deserve this "man-agement" assault for trophy and recreation. In Wisconsin, the public still accepts killing for heads on walls, killing for trophy and taxidermy, trapping with conibear, steel jaw, and snare traps - all crimes against nature. No being, especially our sacred innocent and defenseless wild bears, deserve to be treated so cruelly.
We, the undersigned citizens of Wisconsin honor our wildlife by protesting this hounding, baiting and killing of our wild bears who intend no harm, and try to live with us in peace. We treated the indigenous Indians this way - we have created a false hierarchy. Not so long ago, men hounded black people into trees and hung them. This is the same mentality. It must end with a Department of Natural Resources that, as is its mission statement, PROTECTS our resources (the bears), represents ALL citizens (even the majority who do not kill) and does not sell our wildlife off for killing to a special interest group.
We demand that this form of management stop once and for all, and that we find humane ways to manage bear populations. It causes massive chaos for all citizens living in the area, and disruption of all wildlife. Since bears hibernate in the winters, we could form a HUMANE FORCE to spay and neuter some bears, if necessary.
We, the undersigned, demand that this hunt be ended for lack of democratic citizen hearings and input. Defend your rights to ARM BEARS! And the best way to arm bears is by educating yourself about the true nature of bears, reading the WSJ outdoors pages ongoingly, attending the annual election of delegates in every county the second Monday in April, and signing this petition.
WE NEED WISCONSIN CITIZENS TO SIGN!
PLEASE EMAIL YOUR WI MAILING LIST!
The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources has issued an unprecedented 7,310 kill licenses, targeting the kill of 4,585 indigenous black bears between Wednesday, September 9 and October 13, 2009. This will be a bloodbath, with packs of dogs and armed men trespassing private land all over "bear country." The most bears ever killed before in one season in Wisconsin were 3100 killed in 1998. Two-thirds of the black bears killed will be babies born this spring or yearlings still with their mothers. They will be run down by packs of up to 18 dogs (or more, since Wisconsin has the lowest warden to hunter ratio in the country), and shot out of trees. It will not be humane. There is a lot of drinking that goes on with hunting and hounding. Or they will be killed over bait piles, as hunters sit in their lounge chairs or tree stands, where the bears have been accustomed to feed, for this purpose.
The DNR raised the bear kill quota by 60% this year, based on a "preliminary" study, done by a UW professor and student, with this study paid for by the Wisconsin Bear Hunters' Association and Wisconsin Trapper's Association. This professor has done other suspect work financed by the head-hunting group, Safari International. Either the DNR has been totally inept for the past 50 years (I vote for that one) or they are totally inept now (and I fear this is a double whammy) in announcing that suddenly, this year, there are TWICE AS MANY BEARS in Wisconsin as they thought!
No hearings were held with alternative population control methods offered. The solution is always the same for the DNR - a killing spree and more killing licenses for their special hunter and trapper citizen elite. More money to stock more killing.
As usual, (as has gone on for 75 years in our state), this year 6800 exclusively hunters and trappers proposed expansion of killing and passed it through, without general public input or public knowledge of the hearings. This yearly expansion of the hunter kill wish list goes on every year, unchecked, in a time of unprecedented habitat loss, species' losses and human-caused degradation of the earth and its climate. We have a responsibility to redefine our relationship to the wild as humane stewards - rather than farm it for maximum ego killing. Taking a living being to turn it into a decorative possession - death over styrofoam for ego display, is an obscenity against all of nature.
Black bears are highly intelligent, playful, peaceable (far more peaceful then men) beings, and they do not deserve this "man-agement" assault for trophy and recreation. In Wisconsin, the public still accepts killing for heads on walls, killing for trophy and taxidermy, trapping with conibear, steel jaw, and snare traps - all crimes against nature. No being, especially our sacred innocent and defenseless wild bears, deserve to be treated so cruelly.
We, the undersigned citizens of Wisconsin honor our wildlife by protesting this hounding, baiting and killing of our wild bears who intend no harm, and try to live with us in peace. We treated the indigenous Indians this way - we have created a false hierarchy. Not so long ago, men hounded black people into trees and hung them. This is the same mentality. It must end with a Department of Natural Resources that, as is its mission statement, PROTECTS our resources (the bears), represents ALL citizens (even the majority who do not kill) and does not sell our wildlife off for killing to a special interest group.
We demand that this form of management stop once and for all, and that we find humane ways to manage bear populations. It causes massive chaos for all citizens living in the area, and disruption of all wildlife. Since bears hibernate in the winters, we could form a HUMANE FORCE to spay and neuter some bears, if necessary.
We, the undersigned, demand that this hunt be ended for lack of democratic citizen hearings and input. Defend your rights to ARM BEARS! And the best way to arm bears is by educating yourself about the true nature of bears, reading the WSJ outdoors pages ongoingly, attending the annual election of delegates in every county the second Monday in April, and signing this petition.
PLEASE EMAIL YOUR WI MAILING LIST!
The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources has issued an unprecedented 7,310 kill licenses, targeting the kill of 4,585 indigenous black bears between Wednesday, September 9 and October 13, 2009. This will be a bloodbath, with packs of dogs and armed men trespassing private land all over "bear country." The most bears ever killed before in one season in Wisconsin were 3100 killed in 1998. Two-thirds of the black bears killed will be babies born this spring or yearlings still with their mothers. They will be run down by packs of up to 18 dogs (or more, since Wisconsin has the lowest warden to hunter ratio in the country), and shot out of trees. It will not be humane. There is a lot of drinking that goes on with hunting and hounding. Or they will be killed over bait piles, as hunters sit in their lounge chairs or tree stands, where the bears have been accustomed to feed, for this purpose.
The DNR raised the bear kill quota by 60% this year, based on a "preliminary" study, done by a UW professor and student, with this study paid for by the Wisconsin Bear Hunters' Association and Wisconsin Trapper's Association. This professor has done other suspect work financed by the head-hunting group, Safari International. Either the DNR has been totally inept for the past 50 years (I vote for that one) or they are totally inept now (and I fear this is a double whammy) in announcing that suddenly, this year, there are TWICE AS MANY BEARS in Wisconsin as they thought!
No hearings were held with alternative population control methods offered. The solution is always the same for the DNR - a killing spree and more killing licenses for their special hunter and trapper citizen elite. More money to stock more killing.
As usual, (as has gone on for 75 years in our state), this year 6800 exclusively hunters and trappers proposed expansion of killing and passed it through, without general public input or public knowledge of the hearings. This yearly expansion of the hunter kill wish list goes on every year, unchecked, in a time of unprecedented habitat loss, species' losses and human-caused degradation of the earth and its climate. We have a responsibility to redefine our relationship to the wild as humane stewards - rather than farm it for maximum ego killing. Taking a living being to turn it into a decorative possession - death over styrofoam for ego display, is an obscenity against all of nature.
Black bears are highly intelligent, playful, peaceable (far more peaceful then men) beings, and they do not deserve this "man-agement" assault for trophy and recreation. In Wisconsin, the public still accepts killing for heads on walls, killing for trophy and taxidermy, trapping with conibear, steel jaw, and snare traps - all crimes against nature. No being, especially our sacred innocent and defenseless wild bears, deserve to be treated so cruelly.
We, the undersigned citizens of Wisconsin honor our wildlife by protesting this hounding, baiting and killing of our wild bears who intend no harm, and try to live with us in peace. We treated the indigenous Indians this way - we have created a false hierarchy. Not so long ago, men hounded black people into trees and hung them. This is the same mentality. It must end with a Department of Natural Resources that, as is its mission statement, PROTECTS our resources (the bears), represents ALL citizens (even the majority who do not kill) and does not sell our wildlife off for killing to a special interest group.
We demand that this form of management stop once and for all, and that we find humane ways to manage bear populations. It causes massive chaos for all citizens living in the area, and disruption of all wildlife. Since bears hibernate in the winters, we could form a HUMANE FORCE to spay and neuter some bears, if necessary.
We, the undersigned, demand that this hunt be ended for lack of democratic citizen hearings and input. Defend your rights to ARM BEARS! And the best way to arm bears is by educating yourself about the true nature of bears, reading the WSJ outdoors pages ongoingly, attending the annual election of delegates in every county the second Monday in April, and signing this petition.
We, the undersigned citizens of Wisconsin, are writing to protest the killing of our bears who are supposed to be under the guardianship of the Wisconsin DNR, as our commonwealth, charged with PROTECTING our natural resources (the bears and other wildlife). We petition that democratic processes be put in place to represent all citizens in stewarding our bears and wildlife, not just hunter/trapper exclusive control. We ask that this massive special interest trophy kill of our wild bears be ended before it begins to cause the suffering and death it will engender. We ask that hearings on alternative methods of population control be presented to the public for review and comment, and that DEMOCRATIC participation be sought out by the DNR.
We petition for the equal rights of non-hunting citizens and bears. We represent the bears who cannot speak for themselves. They are defenseless and deserve our protection. We, the non-killing majority of Wisconsin citizens, are equally voiceless and deserve to be heard and heeded. We the undersigned thank you for your attention to transforming our DNR into a humane and REPRESENTATIVE system, honoring and protecting our black bears. Please end this hunt.
We petition for the equal rights of non-hunting citizens and bears. We represent the bears who cannot speak for themselves. They are defenseless and deserve our protection. We, the non-killing majority of Wisconsin citizens, are equally voiceless and deserve to be heard and heeded. We the undersigned thank you for your attention to transforming our DNR into a humane and REPRESENTATIVE system, honoring and protecting our black bears. Please end this hunt.
We signed the "Stop Killing of WI black bears - Sept.9/7,310 licenses sold" petition!
# 513:
8:35 am PST, Feb 9,
Roman Strmiska, Czech Republic
# 512:
8:29 am PST, Feb 9,
Tatana Bulova, Czech Republic
# 511:
11:08 am PST, Feb 8,
Cathy Adams, California
# 510:
8:03 am PST, Feb 8,
Jamie Baez, Illinois
# 508:
11:47 pm PST, Feb 5,
Alice Dickman, Australia
# 507:
10:47 pm PST, Feb 5,
Maria Smatchenko, Russian Federation
Нет причин бояться медведя! Эли, Миннесота вхождение на быстро растущий Открытый деятельности - наблюдение за живой природой со своими новыми Bear-образовательный центр! Ссылка: http://www.bear.org/website/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=1
Нет причин бояться медведя! Эли, Миннесота вхождение на быстро растущий Открытый деятельности - наблюдение за живой природой со своими новыми Bear-образовательный центр! Ссылка: http://www.bear.org/website/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=1
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# 506:
3:40 pm PST, Feb 5,
Abel Saenz, Michigan
# 505:
1:25 pm PST, Feb 5,
Mary Foley, Ireland
# 504:
12:39 pm PST, Feb 5,
Rajna Tosh, Serbia And Montenegro
# 503:
12:59 am PST, Jan 31,
Richard Hollister, Arizona
# 502:
1:24 pm PST, Jan 20,
Ingrid Andersson, Sweden
# 501:
7:43 pm PST, Jan 13,
Peggy Acosta, Pennsylvania
# 500:
7:26 am PST, Jan 3,
Judy Mcneal, Virginia
# 499:
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11:49 am PST, Jan 2,
VIER Eva, France
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# 498:
10:32 am PST, Dec 26,
Kimberly Hurtt, North Carolina
# 497:
9:13 am PST, Dec 25,
LAMIRAND M, France
# 496:
12:31 pm PST, Dec 22,
Martha Leahy, Massachusetts
# 495:
8:24 am PST, Dec 17,
Jony Blu, United Kingdom
# 494:
6:14 am PST, Dec 17,
Marilyn Holtz, Wisconsin
# 493:
2:27 am PST, Dec 15,
Roswitha Von Heissen, Germany
# 492:
8:13 pm PST, Dec 14,
Margaret Esposito, New York
# 491:
8:05 pm PST, Dec 14,
Kunal Ashar, California
# 490:
8:04 pm PST, Dec 14,
Mina Chan, Canada
# 489:
1:12 pm PST, Dec 14,
Rosa McDonald, New York
# 488:
6:09 am PST, Dec 14,
Gillian Miller, United Kingdom
# 487:
1:58 am PST, Dec 14,
Name not displayed, Sweden
# 486:
6:56 pm PST, Dec 13,
Jenny O'Neil, New Mexico
# 485:
12:03 pm PST, Dec 13,
Ginger Geronimo, Alabama
# 484:
10:05 am PST, Dec 13,
Samantha Genske-Condon, Wisconsin
# 483:
10:01 am PST, Dec 13,
Daniel Tudor, New York
# 482:
9:37 am PST, Dec 13,
Louann Fakoory, Trinidad And Tobago
# 481:
9:53 pm PST, Dec 10,
Penny Gregorio, Hawaii
# 480:
12:57 pm PST, Dec 7,
Frank Gerry, Florida
I've met these bears and they are pretty nice fellas. Why would anybody want to hurt one?
I've met these bears and they are pretty nice fellas. Why would anybody want to hurt one?
# 479:
7:09 am PST, Dec 6,
Terrie Williams, Texas
# 478:
8:00 pm PST, Dec 5,
Hussain Jabbary, Bahrain
# 477:
10:18 pm PST, Dec 3,
Maddie Burke, California
# 476:
8:03 am PST, Dec 3,
Monique GABETTY, France
# 475:
4:56 am PST, Dec 3,
Philippe Tomballe, Belgium
Philippe Tomballe
Philippe Tomballe
# 474:
10:02 pm PST, Dec 2,
Shirley Strang, Australia
# 473:
7:57 am PST, Dec 2,
Nancy Petitjean, Belgium
# 472:
12:07 am PST, Dec 2,
Gail Dair, Australia
# 471:
9:29 pm PST, Dec 1,
Mary Ann Clark, Connecticut
# 470:
12:55 pm PST, Dec 1,
Jean frederic Marrot, France
# 469:
8:19 am PST, Dec 1,
Pley Nicole, France
C'est horrible ce que j'apprend, 7310 ours pour satisfaire des excités de la gachettes, les Américains me révolte.
C'est horrible ce que j'apprend, 7310 ours pour satisfaire des excités de la gachettes, les Américains me révolte.
Une alerte générale devrait être lancée, car ceci est monstrueux.
# 468:
7:08 am PST, Dec 1,
Annie PEYSSON, France
# 467:
5:23 am PST, Dec 1,
Cornélia PALAZOTTO, France
# 466:
3:20 pm PST, Nov 28,
Carole BELLEUDY, France
# 465:
3:19 pm PST, Nov 28,
Nicolas BELLEUDY, France
# 464:
3:18 pm PST, Nov 28,
Jean-Luc PALAZOTTO, France
# 463:
3:17 pm PST, Nov 28,
Odile HECKMANN, France
# 462:
3:16 pm PST, Nov 28,
Marie-Rose HECKMANN, France
# 461:
1:29 pm PST, Nov 28,
Łukasz Ziębicki, Poland
# 460:
10:42 pm PST, Nov 24,
Gabriel Miterick, Canada
In many cultures of the past bears and man were considered equal, so killing a bear would be lamentable. Nowadays a lot of so called men feel that as an act of manhood they must prove their worth by killing something, and other lower life forms of this sub species of man feel nothing but apathy towards all life they consider non essential. Ironically, if one of these types were to try and read this sentence they would rub the furrows on their protruding brows and mispronounce words such as idiot, and imbecile, slack jawed, yokel, troglodyte, and non brainiest ignoramus. Keep up the good work fellas, one day not to long form now you will have shot and killed all remaining wild life on this continent, and like them old redneck boys say. Heck you gotta shoot something, might as well shoot at each other.
In many cultures of the past bears and man were considered equal, so killing a bear would be lamentable. Nowadays a lot of so called men feel that as an act of manhood they must prove their worth by killing something, and other lower life forms of this sub species of man feel nothing but apathy towards all life they consider non essential. Ironically, if one of these types were to try and read this sentence they would rub the furrows on their protruding brows and mispronounce words such as idiot, and imbecile, slack jawed, yokel, troglodyte, and non brainiest ignoramus. Keep up the good work fellas, one day not to long form now you will have shot and killed all remaining wild life on this continent, and like them old redneck boys say. Heck you gotta shoot something, might as well shoot at each other.
# 459:
10:48 am PST, Nov 24,
Tracy Tiefenbach, Canada
# 458:
8:05 am PST, Nov 24,
Gerold Fahrer, Germany
# 457:
7:12 am PST, Nov 24,
Nancy Juskowich, Pennsylvania
How could anyone be so cruel. Do you not have a heart and soul. Listen to it instead of the evil of killing and destroying.
How could anyone be so cruel. Do you not have a heart and soul. Listen to it instead of the evil of killing and destroying.
# 456:
2:26 am PST, Nov 24,
Wood Dragon, United Kingdom
# 455:
2:17 am PST, Nov 24,
AnimalSpirit Martz, Indiana
# 454:
10:00 am PST, Nov 23,
Name not displayed, Texas
# 453:
7:56 am PST, Nov 23,
Thandt Marleen, Belgium
# 452:
7:14 am PST, Nov 23,
Yrna Miryana, Indonesia
# 451:
7:05 am PST, Nov 23,
Carina Eriksson, Sweden
Killing the bears is just plain wrong!
Killing the bears is just plain wrong!
