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         AR-NEWS Digest 216

Topics covered in this issue include:

  1) Threat to Health Freedom
     by [e-mail]
  2) AR-News Admin Note
     by allen schubert <[e-mail]>
  3) (US) APHIS Press Release USDA Proposes to Amend Livestock
  Movement Regulations
     by allen schubert <[e-mail]>
  4) APHIS Press Release USDA Proposes to Amend Rules for Imported
  Zoo Animals
     by allen schubert <[e-mail]>
  5) More hunting in Woodstock (US)
     by [e-mail]
  6) Hunters bag about 150 bears (US)
     by [e-mail]
  7) Angry Man Arrested For Slugging Horse (US)
     by [e-mail]
  8) Update on Puppy Beating in Sapulpa, OK (USA)
     by [e-mail]
  9) Rescued Rats Need Homes (US)
     by Karin Zupko <ma.neavs.com![e-mail]>
 10) TsTr-Team: New German language mailing list
     by "Carsten Scholvien" <[e-mail]>
 11) Gettysburg Activism-- Attention Activists
     by <[e-mail]>
 12) Newswire: UCLA Burns Human Remains With "Lab" Animals (US)
     by Lawrence Carter-Long <[e-mail]>
 13) (ZA) Conservationists propose horn trade to cut poaching
     by allen schubert <[e-mail]>
 14) (US) Howard Lyman Lecture
     by allen schubert <[e-mail]>
 15) Library / Archive Project Needs Help
     by Carmen Lee <[e-mail]>
 16) NYC Protest 11/13/96
     by Pamelyn Ferdin <[e-mail]>
 17) LC in Oregonian...
     by [e-mail]
 18) Anti Fur Resources Available
     by [e-mail]
 19) International Orangutan Awareness Week
     by David J Knowles <[e-mail]>
 20) Alert as new brain disease hits beef herds in Britain[UK]
     by David J Knowles <[e-mail]>
 21) Drug firm prefers to do tests on humans[UK]
     by David J Knowles <[e-mail]>
 22) FoA goes to IRS re March money
     by [e-mail] (Merritt Clifton,  editor,  ANIMAL PEOPLE)

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Date: Mon, 4 Nov 1996 01:58:47 -0500
>From: [e-mail]
To: [e-mail]
Subject: Threat to Health Freedom
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

The following article was downloaded from the
Life Extension Foundation web site.  I edited it
in order to decrease size, preserving (I hope) all
 the important points.  The full text is available
at the LEF site.  (http://www.lef.org)

Codex proposals would not only reduce the availability
and and increase the price of vitamins, minerals, and
herbs (a threat to health conscious humans) - it would
also cost animal lives and suffering by 1) extending
animal testing to nutritional substances that do not
now require FDA approval and  2) by boosting the
power of the medical-pharmaceutical industry and
causing more human illness to be "treated" with
"heroic measures" - again, increasing the use of animals.

= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =

CODEX: INTERNATIONAL THREAT TO HEALTH FREEDOM
                     REPORT FROM BONN, GERMANY

By John Hammell,

        In Germany, the trains run on time and the beer is
unsurpassed, but pharmaceutical companies like Hoechst are working
overtime to drive small vitamin companies out of business in an
effort to take over the supplement industry. Hoechst's vehicle is
the Codex Alimentarious Commission, which is developing
international standards for dietary supplements.

The motives of the pharmaceutical companies are revealed
in a letter by Matthias Rath, M.D.(Fig. 1) to German
Chancellor Helmut Kohl and members of the German Parliament
The letter is entitled "The Health Interests of Millions of People
Are More Important Than The Stock Price of the Pharmaceutical
Corporations".

        In his letter, Dr. Rath, who is a German living
in California, noted that a German proposal before the Codex
Commission is being heavily pushed by Hoechst, Bayer, and BASF --
the three companies formed when IG Farben was disbanded
after the Nuremberg War Trials because of their role in
manufacturing the poison gas used in the Nazi concentration camps.

Advancing The German Proposal

[The German government] continued to advance the proposal that
could one day severely restrict your access to dietary
supplements. They jumped from step 3 to step 5 during this
meeting. In two years when they meet again, they could jump
from step 5 to step 8 and finalize things!

 In addition, the Codex Executive committee might allocate funds in June
for the creation of an "expert panel" on herbs which might create a
"negative list" that could limit consumer access to these products
internationally. The formation of this "expert panel" was advocated by
Canada, and seconded by a majority of the delegations present.
Obviously we will need to monitor this very closely...

        Do you want your favorite supplements replaced by
expensive, patented, over-the-counter and prescription drug?
Unless a much bigger international coalition can be formed within
the next two years to save our health freedom, we will see it
stripped from.

     What Is The Codex Alimentarius Commission?

     Codex Alimentarius is latin for "food code." The Codex
Alimentarius Commission is an FAO/WHO United Nations entity whose
purpose is to "create a set of international standards to
guide the world's growing food industry and to protect the
health of consumers."

        Germany has been attempting to manipulate the Codex
Committee on Nutrition and Foods for Special Dietary Use to
further the interests of the German pharmaceutical industry,
by raising regulatory standards so that only the big drug
companies like Hoechst, Bayer, BASF, Degussa, Fresnius,
Rhone-Poulenc, Sandoz, and Novo Nordisk can survive.

                           The Problem

        The German "Proposed Draft Guideline for Dietary
Supplements" calls for the following:

No dietary supplement can be sold for prophylactic
 (preventive or therapeutic) use;

No dietary supplement sold as a food can exceed potency
 (dosage)levels set by the commission;

Codex standards for dietary supplements would become the
reference international standard under GATT, and a reference
international standard under NAFTA.

The current trend is for countries to adopt the international
standards either individually or in regional compacts. If that happened
in the U.S., all new dietary supplements would automatically be banned
unless they conform to Codex standards- (which would require going
through a very expensive drug like approval process.) The Delaney
clause, which used to protect us against carcinogens in our food
supply, has already been "harmonized" to a Codex standard which favors
pesticide manufacturers, and not a single member of Congress protested
against this.

                    What It's Like In Germany

        All anyone needs to do in order to grasp the motives
behind the German proposal is to visit any German health food
store and pharmacy (called an "apothecary").

        In a German health food store, you simply don't find the
shelves filled with vitamin products that you see in the U.S.,
Canada, the U.K. or Australia. You won't find a single product
by Twinlab, Standard Process Brands, Solgar, Solaray, or any of
the other usual brands.

What you WILL find is little besides health food. You'll find
organic vegetables, macrobiotic staples, herbal shampoo, skin
creams, Birckenstock sandals, books on massage, and only a
handful of multi-nutrient formulas in OTC drug form such as
"Alsiroyal", a royal jelly, vitamin E and ginseng.

        Where You Can Get Supplements In Germany?

        The answer is that you really CAN'T! The closest thing to
the products available to Americans and can only be found as high
priced, prescription and over-the-counter drugs found in
pharmacies called apothecaries, such as the "Apotheke im
Stadthaus" on Berliner Platz.

        All the products available in a German apothocary are
listed in a "PDR" like volume called "Die Rote List"
 (ISBN 3-87193-167-5). There one can find a complete listing
of international pharmaceutical firms that manufacture patented
analogs of dietary supplements sold as OTC and prescription drugs.
Through this you can see who the companies are that are trying
to manipulate the Codex process.

                    German Rip-Off Prices!

        Here is an example of how OTC drug prices at "Apotheke
im Stadhaus" compare The with Life Extension Foundation's
supplement prices:

        LEF: Vitamin C, 250 caps, 1,000 mg, $22.50, cost per gram: 0.090
cents.
        GERMANY: Vitamin C not available in 1 Gram caps, only in
a quantity of 20, 1 Gram effervescent lozenges (Merck) which cost
6.45 DM or $4.19 U.S. (U.S. dollar=1.5263 DM). Cost is .209 cents
per mg). German cost is more than double LEF cost.

        The largest sized tablet of vitamin C in Germany is 250 mg.
Their price for 30 tablets is 18.89 DM or $12.27 US (cost is
$1.63/gram in Germany vs .09 cents per gram for the Life
Extension Foundation product. The German cost is 18.11 times
HIGHER than the LEF cost

     North American Pharmacies Move In On Supplement Market

        Americans and Canadians had better wake up because on
Oct. 14, 1996 a press release announced the publication of "The
Natural Pharmacist," a new magazine exclusively for retail
pharmacists who will vigorously pursue business that has
traditionally been the province of health food stores.

        This magazine was distributed at the annual meeting of
the National Association for Retail Pharmacists (NARD) in New
Orleans, and was sent to over 40,000 pharmacists in the
U.S. and Canada.  With the German Codex proposal pending, no
consumer can afford to be complacent about the drug
companies efforts to monopolize the sale of natural products.

              Control Of Supplements In Norway

        In Norway, drug companies currently control 70% of all
dietary supplement sales. These products are being sold at
grossly inflated prices as patent protected prescription and OTC
drug analogs -- when they are available at all.

        In Norway, you can only make a health claim for a
natural product if it is licensed with the government as an OTC
drug. Thus, in Norway, Shering Plough can make a health claim on
"Echinagard" (a patented analog of an echinacea tincture), while
supplement companies are excluded from making the claim. In
Norway, there are only a handful of herbs that can still be sold
in health food stores. The drug companies are making it illegal to
sell them in order to pave the way for the sale of their
OTC drugs.

        Hoechst, Shering-Plough and other European drug companies which
have been taking over the European market are now eyeing the rest
of the world, with efforts to pass the German Codex proposal.

                        Jamaica And Spain

        In Jamaica, the Holistic Health Association has filed
a lawsuit against the Ministry of Health, which is attempting to
require a cost prohibitive "drug approval process" for herbal
products.

        In Spain, a royal decree on Aug. 2 banned advertising
of natural products unless they have undergone a cost prohibitive
drug approval process.

What Is Needed Now

        The Life Extension Foundation is the leading organization
in the world concerned with defending consumer access to natural
products. We need your help in building an international
coalition to oppose the German proposal and send it back to
step 3 in two years when the committee meets again. We will be
working with organizations in the U.K., Canada, Japan, the
Netherlands, Australia, and New Zealand to help insure that
this happens, but need monetary donations on an ongoing basis
in order to conduct this vital health freedom networking.

        We will be updating Codex information to our site on the
worldwide web (www.lef.org), including translations into other
languages) and we need your assistance.

        Checks can be made out to "Life Extension Foundation" and sent to
Pat Stern, LEF Information Office, PO Box 229120, Hollywood, FL 33022
USA. For donations of $25. or more, we will send you a copy of our
highly comprehensive, 23 page Codex Comments which were submitted to
the Codex Alimentarius Commission after careful preparation by Suzanne
Harris, JD of the Law Loft. Thank you for your badly needed assistance.


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Date: Mon, 4 Nov 1996 06:07:40 -0500 (EST)
>From: allen schubert <[e-mail]>
To: "Hillary, AR-NYC" <[e-mail]>,
        [e-mail] (Merritt Clifton,  editor,  ANIMAL PEOPLE)
Cc: [e-mail]
Subject: AR-News Admin Note
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Hillary, Merritt,

Please take your discussion off the AR-News list and to private e-mail or
other e-mail lists immediately!  Your discussion of CACC & euthanasia rates
is becoming a personal flame war.

For Merritt:  you've been warned on previous occassions and you have bee
suspended before (you _clearly_ are acquainted with how this works).  THIS
IS YOUR FINAL WARNING!

If either of you disagree with this, do not post to the list, got to private
e-mail with me.



**********
allen

"We are either part of the problem or part of the solution. Walk your talk
and no one will be in doubt of where you stand."
  -- Howard F. Lyman
**********


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Date: Mon, 4 Nov 1996 06:42:41 -0500 (EST)
>From: allen schubert <[e-mail]>
To: [e-mail]
Subject: (US) APHIS Press Release USDA Proposes to Amend Livestock
  Movement Regulations
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>Date: Fri, 01 Nov 1996 10:00:19 -0700
>From: Questa Glenn <[e-mail]>
>To: [e-mail]
>Subject: APHIS Press Release USDA Proposes to Amend Livestock Movement
Regulations
>Sender: [e-mail]
>
>                                   Bethany Hulse  [phone]
>                                              [e-mail]
>                                   Jerry Redding  [phone]
>                                                     [e-mail]
>
>USDA PROPOSES TO AMEND LIVESTOCK MOVEMENT REGULATIONS
>
>     WASHINGTON, Oct. 31, 1996--The U.S. Department of Agriculture's
>Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service is proposing to amend its
>regulations regarding the interstate movement of livestock.
>
>     The proposed rule change would remove the regulations that restrict
>the movement of swine and swine products from areas quarantined for
>hog cholera and that provide for compensation payments to owners of
>swine destroyed because of hog cholera.
>
>     "We are proposing to remove the hog cholera regulations because the
>United States has been free of the disease since 1978 and import
>requirements have proven adequate to prevent the reintroduction of the
>disease into this country," said Joan M. Arnoldi, deputy administrator of
>veterinary services in APHIS, a part of USDA's marketing and regulatory
>programs mission area.
>
>     The rule also would combine the provisions for the approval of
>livestock markets for cattle and bison, horses, and swine into a single
>section.
>
>     For further information contact:  James Davis, senior staff
>veterinarian, Monitoring, Surveillance, and Animal Identification Team,
>National Animal Health Programs, VS, APHIS, 4700 River Road Unit 36,
>Riverdale, Md. 20737-1231, [phone].
>
>     Notice of this proposal is scheduled for publication in the Oct. 31
>Federal Register.
>
>     Consideration will be given only to comments received on or before
>Dec. 30.  An original and three copies should be sent to Docket No.
>96-041-1, Regulatory and Analysis and Development, PPD, APHIS, Suite
>3C03, 4700 River Road, Riverdale, Md. 20737-1238.
>
>     Comments may be reviewed at USDA, Room 1141, South Building,
>14th Street and Independence Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C., between
>8 a.m. and 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, except holidays.  Persons
>wishing to review comments are requested to call ahead at (202)
>690-2817 to facilitate entry into the comment reading room.
>
>                                #
>
>NOTE:  USDA news releases, program announcements, and media
>advisories are available on the Internet.  Access the APHIS Home Page
>by pointing your Web browser to
> http://www.aphis.usda.gov and clicking on "APHIS Press Releases."
>Also, anyone with an e-mail address can sign up to receive APHIS press
>releases automatically.  Send an e-mail message to
>[e-mail]
>and leave the subject blank.  In the message, type
>subscribe press_releases
>
>


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Date: Mon, 4 Nov 1996 06:48:49 -0500 (EST)
>From: allen schubert <[e-mail]>
To: [e-mail]
Subject: APHIS Press Release USDA Proposes to Amend Rules for Imported
  Zoo Animals
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
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>Date: Fri, 01 Nov 1996 13:07:08 -0700
>From: Questa Glenn <[e-mail]>
>To: [e-mail]
>Subject: APHIS Press Release USDA Proposes to Amend Rules for Imported Zoo
Animals
>Sender: [e-mail]
>
>                                   Bethany Hulse  [phone]
>                                              [e-mail]
>                                   Jerry Redding  [phone]
>                                                     [e-mail]
>
>
>USDA PROPOSES TO AMEND RULES FOR IMPORTED ZOO ANIMALS
>     WASHINGTON, Oct. 31, 1996--The U.S. Department of Agriculture's
>Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service is proposing to allow the
>movement between U.S. zoos of ruminants and swine imported from
>countries where foot-and-mouth disease and rinderpest exist.
>
>     "Establishing conditions under which such animals may be moved
>from one zoo in the United States to another would benefit endangered
>species breeding programs while continuing to protect against the
>introduction of dangerous animal diseases into the United States," said
>Joan M. Arnoldi, deputy administrator of veterinary services with APHIS,
>a part of USDA's marketing and regulatory programs mission area.
>
>     These imported animals are received at APHIS-approved zoos where
>they are held in post-entry quarantine (PEQ) facilities that prevent
>access to the animals by the public and by domestic animals.  The
>proposed rule would allow ruminants or swine to be moved from a PEQ
>zoo to a non-PEQ zoo after spending at least one year in quarantine.
>
>     The proposed rule would require that the non-PEQ zoo be accredited
>by the American Zoo and Aquarium Association to ensure that the zoo
>meets high professional standards in its facilities and operations.
>
>     For further information contact: Joyce Bowling, Senior Staff
>Veterinarian, Import-Export Animals Staff, VS, APHIS, 4700 River Road,
>Riverdale, Md. 20737-1228, [phone].
>
>     Notice of this action is scheduled for publication in the Oct. 31
>Federal Register.
>
>     Consideration will be given to comments on the proposed rule
>received on or before Dec. 30.  An original and three copies should be
>sent to Docket No. 94-136-1, Regulatory and Analysis and Development,
>PPD, APHIS, Suite 3C03, 4700 River Road, Riverdale, Md. 20737-1238.
>
>     Comments may be reviewed at USDA, Room 1141, South Building,
>14th Street and Independence Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C., between
>8 a.m. and 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, except holidays.  Persons
>wishing to review comments are requested to call ahead at (202)
>90-2817 to facilitate entry into the comment reading room.
>
>                                #
>
>NOTE:  USDA news releases, program announcements, and media
>advisories are available on the Internet.  Access the APHIS Home Page
>by pointing your Web browser to
>http://www.aphis.usda.gov and clicking on "APHIS Press Releases."
>Also, anyone with an e-mail address can sign up to receive APHIS press
>releases automatically.  Send an e-mail message to
>[e-mail]
>and leave the subject blank.  In the message, type
>subscribe press_releases
>
>


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Date: Mon, 4 Nov 1996 07:55:30 -0500
>From: [e-mail]
To: [e-mail]
Subject: More hunting in Woodstock (US)
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

Saturday once again brought activists to McHenry County, Illinois to disrupt
canned hunters.  Both goose hunters and pheasant hunters were visited, and
some flocks of geese were turned away from slobs at the Woodstock Killing
Club who wanted to shoot them.  What was interesting was the difficulty in
finding hunters.  Only one of the Woodstock Killing Club's goose pits had
hunters in it - the one farthest away from the road.  Even the pheasant
hunters were rare, and would quickly leave the road area, their favorite
place to hunt, when we arrived.

A television news crew was on the scene, and the owner of the killing club
refused to talk to them.  Guess he has something to hide.

A CHARC Bird of Prey took to the air briefly, but was forced back down by
turbulence.  We shall await better weather and be airborne again very soon.
 However, it appears we may have to find new hunting grounds, as the hunters
have pretty much evacuated this area.

We expect some new developments this week.

Steve Hindi
Chicago Animal Rights Coalition (CHARC)


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Date: Mon, 04 Nov 96 08:15:46 EST
>From: [e-mail]
To: [e-mail]
Subject: Hunters bag about 150 bears (US)
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>


     From the Saturday November 2, 1996 Foster's Daily Democrat

     Hunters bag about 150 bears this year

     Concord, New Hampshire - Hunters bagged about 150 bears this year,
     down from 428 last year, the state's chief bear biologist said.

     "There've been about 154 bear deaths this year, including car kills,"
     said Fish and Game biologist Eric Orff. "I didn't expect it to be as
     many as last year because we shortened the season on the front and
     tail end."

     Bear hunting season ends today, but officials said it could be weeks
     before the final tally is in.

     Bear-hunting season usually lasts three months.  This year it was
     shortened to two months Sept. 1 to Nov. 1 - to offset the effect of
     last years large kill.

     Of particular concern were the number of female bears killed.  Last
     year, the three month season was cut short after more than 100 females
     were killed.

     "Our population models showed there should have been a maximum of 135
     or 140 killed" in one year, Orff said. "Last year, we had a record
     bear harvest.  About 200 or 206 of those were females."

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Date: Mon, 04 Nov 96 08:14:16 EST
>From: [e-mail]
To: [e-mail]
Subject: Angry Man Arrested For Slugging Horse (US)
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>


     From the Saturday November 2, 1996 Foster's Daily Democrat

     Angry man arrested for slugging horse

     Charlottesville, VA - Avery Fernando Gray Jr. was so angry over the
     arrest of a teenage drug suspect that he allegedly slugged the nearest
     law-enforcement figure - Otis the police horse.

     Gray, 21, was charged with assaulting a police animal and obstucting
     justice.  The teenager was charged with possession of cocaine with
     intent to distribute.  His name was not released because of his age.

     Police said a mounted patrol officer spotted the 16 year old and
     another person approaching cars and suspected they were selling drugs.
     The officer and Otis went after the pair, who fled.  The boy was
     captured after a brief chase.

     While the teenager was being arrested Tuesday night, Gray arrived and
     began yelling and swearing at officers, police Sgt. Gary Pleasants
     said.  Then he "balled his fist up and hit Otis in the side of the
     head."

     Police said Thursday they didn't know if Gray knew the teenager.

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Date: Mon, 4 Nov 96 09:57:27 UTC
>From: [e-mail]
To: [e-mail]
Subject: Update on Puppy Beating in Sapulpa, OK (USA)
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

The puppy is doing better. The police officer who rescued it is going to
adopt it. Here is the Creek County District Attorney's name and address
for those of you who can write and ask that James and Charles Adams
get the maximum allowable penalty for this: Lantz McClain, P.O. Box 1006,
Sapulpa, OK   74067. Phone: [phone].

-- Sherrill

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Date: Mon, 4 Nov 96 10:42:45 -0500
>From: Karin Zupko <ma.neavs.com![e-mail]>
To: [e-mail]
Subject: Rescued Rats Need Homes (US)
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

An activist in the Boston area has rescued 30 rats from Spookyworld
in MA.  She needs to find homes for them all.  I have given her the
information on Rat Allies, but any additional contacts would be
welcome.  Thank you.

Please contact Dawn
e-mail: [e-mail]
phone:  [phone]


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Date: Mon, 4 Nov 1996 19:01:06 +0100
>From: "Carsten Scholvien" <[e-mail]>
To: [e-mail]
Subject: TsTr-Team: New German language mailing list
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

TsTr-Team
          German language mailing list of the Tierschutz-Tierrechte-Team.
          For informations and to subscribe, send an e-mail to
          [e-mail] with the following in your message body:

            info  tstr-team

            subscribe  tstr-team firstname lastname

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Date: Mon, 4 Nov 96 12:13:50 -0000
>From: <[e-mail]>
To: "ar-news" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Gettysburg Activism-- Attention Activists
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The National Park Service continues its shoot of deer.  The law suit,
filed by 23 local residents, is moving through court, but the deer can't
wait.

The Park itself, hiding behind the name of historical preservation, has
desecrated the Park through its hunting of deer.

Some activists are threatening even further desecration.

Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'connor will be the featured speaker at
the 133rd anniversary of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address and the dedication
of the Soldiers Natoinal Cemetary in Gettysburg.

Events will begin at 10:15 a.m. on November 19. 1996.  Media will be
there-- so should we.

If you are available to attend, call LCA and speak with David. (310)
271-6096, or e-mail me at [e-mail].

The National Park Service (NPS) has taken a beating in local and regional
media, but clearly they don't care.  They have thusfar, since the kill
began last year, killed approximately 600 deer, and there are about 250
to go.  This is a federal action conducted on Federal land which makes
active interference a more serious penalty.  We must be creative.

Be not mistaken-- The NPS is using this as a testing ground for future
"management" efforts on all national Parks.  If they can do this at
Gettysburg, with all the historical issues mounted against them, they can
do it anywhere.

It's time to pull out the stops.