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A baby black bear target - the Wisconsin DNR allows killing of bears as small as 42

Stop Killing of WI black bears - Sept.9/7,310 licenses sold

Target:
DNR Secretary Matt Frank, Rep. Spencer Black, all the WI legislature
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                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.
                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.
   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.
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We signed the "Stop Killing of WI black bears - Sept.9/7,310 licenses sold" petition!
# 444:
8:24 pm PST, Nov 21, Jennifer Kilgore, Arkansas
# 443:
11:08 am PST, Nov 21, Hazel Neely, California
# 442:
10:45 am PST, Nov 21, Susan Holmes, United Kingdom
# 441:
10:24 am PST, Nov 21, Name not displayed, California
SOCIOPATHS!!!!!!!!!!!!
# 440:
10:19 am PST, Nov 21, Jill Hunt, Virginia
# 439:
8:29 am PST, Nov 21, Bovy Fabienne, Belgium
# 438:
7:01 am PST, Nov 21, Maria Fongaro, Italy
# 437:
6:31 am PST, Nov 21, Carolyn Bennett, Arizona
# 436:
6:30 am PST, Nov 21, Carmen Vasile, Italy
# 435:
5:07 am PST, Nov 21, Sylvain Parreaux, France
# 434:
4:36 am PST, Nov 21, Tammy Wolfanger, New York
An Indian legend says: " When a human dies there is a bridge they must cross to enter into Heaven. At the head of the bridge waits every animal that human encountered during their lifetime. The animals, based on what they know of this person, decide which humans may cross the bridge...and which are turned away."
# 433:
2:21 am PST, Nov 21, Agnes Hall, Australia
# 432:
1:57 am PST, Nov 21, Dee C., New York
# 431:
9:53 pm PST, Nov 20, Dalia Hettfield, California
# 430:
6:19 pm PST, Nov 20, Joan Yielding, Missouri
please save our bears. be fair.
# 429:
4:52 pm PST, Nov 20, Carol Leuenberger, California
# 428:
4:02 pm PST, Nov 20, Sara Gaspar, Portugal
# 427:
3:44 pm PST, Nov 20, Tabatha Horn, Virginia
# 426:
3:06 pm PST, Nov 20, Olga Daverio, Italy
# 425:
12:35 pm PST, Nov 20, Cynthia Davis, Virginia
# 424:
10:53 am PST, Nov 20, Barbara West, Nevada
You people need to have your heads examined. Bears are not the problem, you are. STOP KILLING GODS CREATURES!
# 423:
10:22 am PST, Nov 20, William Harper, Georgia
# 422:
10:00 am PST, Nov 20, Cheryl Janiszewski, Maryland
# 421:
8:35 am PST, Nov 20, Philippe Ducreux, France
# 420:
3:50 am PST, Nov 20, ALPHA WI, Germany
# 419:
3:13 am PST, Nov 20, Arild Warud, Portugal
# 418:
11:29 pm PST, Nov 19, Aliso Smith, Nevada
# 417:
10:12 pm PST, Nov 19, Louise Odams, South Africa
# 416:
9:35 pm PST, Nov 19, Alejandra Vega, Argentina
# 415:
7:21 pm PST, Nov 19, Barbara Williams, Nevada
# 414:
6:53 pm PST, Nov 19, Agnes Agnesa, Thailand
# 413:
6:11 pm PST, Nov 19, Vanditta Diwakar, Fiji
This is so so wrong :( Why do human beings have to do this to innocent babies? Why? Please stop this blood bath :'(
# 412:
5:07 pm PST, Nov 19, Lyhann O'Shaughnessy, Mexico
# 411:
3:52 pm PST, Nov 19, Susan Dumas, United Kingdom
Bears are such beautiful, intelligent and sociable animals. They respond well to kindness. SHAME on anyone who would harm them. PLEASE STOP this terrible WASTEFUL destruction of God's wonderful creatures. A dead bear is just a corpse, a nothing. Compare that to the joyful, living animal, with its own individual personality, so glad to be alive. PLEASE STOP killing bears before it is too late.
# 410:
3:36 pm PST, Nov 19, Kat Yazzie, Kansas
# 409:
3:02 pm PST, Nov 19, Nan Bongiovanni, California
# 408:
1:32 pm PST, Nov 19, Liz Casey, Canada
# 407:
12:48 pm PST, Nov 19, JennyLynn Werner, Arizona
The world needs leaders who are thoughtful, knowledgeable, and good decision-makers. People who are ignorant and make decisions from their knee-jerk reactions do a lot of damage in the world (here in the US we've seen that up close for 8 years recently). Please stop and think and learn about the problem and potential solutions, and then make good decisions.

It's time for our public lands to be set aside for ALL of the public and not just the special interests like the freeloaders who mooch all the time off public lands - hunters, trappers, and people who ride noisy and polluting vehicles to do damage. It's time for all that to be banned permanently. No more drilling or logging or mining, and no more hunting, or trapping, or off-roading. People who want to hunt and trap should do it on their own private property instead of on our public lands at our expense.

# 406:
12:36 pm PST, Nov 19, Dian Wright, Texas
Why must you kill everything that overpopulates? HUMANS are over populated! Are you gong to kill yourself? I am just checking!

No. I am not from Wisconsin. Good thing, too. Because If I were, I would have to go out on a killing spree and kill all the humans... I mean... there could be an accident....

# 405:
10:51 am PST, Nov 19, Donna Burroughs, Canada
# 404:
4:22 am PST, Nov 19, Chantal Buslot, Belgium
# 403:
5:17 pm PST, Nov 18, Audra Raulinaitis, Illinois
# 402:
10:53 am PST, Nov 18, Carole Wesley, United Kingdom
# 401:
11:36 am PST, Nov 17, Gili Kahana, Israel
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