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Hi All-

Here's a letter you can copy and send to your rep and senators.  I've
printed out each with the correct bills numbers, etc.  It's an attempt
to get the canned hunt bills out of their respective committees so they
can be voted on.


Dear Senator:

Senator Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) has sponsored S. 995, The Captive Exotic
Animal Protection Act of 1997,  which is languishing in the Judiciary
Committee of the Senate.  Some prodding is needed to get it onto the
floor of the Senate for a vote.  This bill would ban interstate commerce
in captive exotic mammals for the purpose of killing or injuring the
animals for entertainment or the collection of a trophy.

Canned hunt patrons need no skill - only a weapon and a roll of cash.
The animals have no chance of escape because the enclosures range in
size from a large pen to a few acres.  This contemptible form of hunter
chooses as his point-blank-range target TAME, primarily exotic
(nonnative) species of animals such as zebras, boars, giraffes, lions,
bears, and especially Asian and African species of deer, goats, and
sheep.

ItÆs time to demand positive action on this bill.  Hearings must be held
in order to get S. 995 out of committee, onto the floor of the Senate,
and voted into law.

Sincerely yours,



Dear CongressmanWoman:

Congressman George Brown, Jr. (D-CA) is the sponsor of  H.R. 1202, The
Captive Exotic Animal Protection Act of 1997,  which is languishing in
the Judiciary Committee of the House.  Some prodding is needed to get it
onto the floor of the House for a vote.  This bill would ban interstate
commerce in captive exotic mammals for the purpose of killing or
injuring the animals for entertainment or the collection of a trophy.

Canned hunt patrons need no skill - only a weapon and a roll of cash.
The animals have no chance of escape because the enclosures range in
size from a large pen to a few acres.  This contemptible form of hunter
chooses as his point-blank-range target TAME, primarily exotic
(nonnative) species of animals such as zebras, boars, giraffes, lions,
bears, and especially Asian and African species of deer, goats, and
sheep.

ItÆs time to demand positive action on this bill.  Hearings must be held
in order to get H.R. 1202 out of committee, onto the floor of the House,
and voted into law.

Sincerely yours,
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 1997 18:37:00 -0800 (PST)
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Subject: Yosemite silences croaking bullfrogs
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Yosemite silences croaking bullfrogs | Park to reintroduce
two native species
San Diego Union Tribune
ASSOCIATED PRESS
23-Oct-1997 Thursday

YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK -- The bullfrogs that used to greet tourists at the
Ahwahnee Hotel are no more.
The amphibians the size of a fist or larger were rounded up and destroyed
because they were damaging Yosemite Valley's ecosystem, park spokesman
Scott Gediman said yesterday.

"We are trying to eradicate them because of their voracious predatory
behavior," he said. "They eat insects, fish, other amphibians, and even
some small birds and mammals."

National Park Service scientists said the non-native bullfrogs also helped
destroy native foothill yellow-legged frogs and California red-legged
frogs.

The yellow-legged and red-legged frogs have become virtually extinct in the
Sierra, but park officials are planning to reintroduce them to Yosemite.

Scientists don't know how the bullfrogs from the eastern and Midwestern
regions of the United States came into Yosemite Valley. Wildlife biologists
believe someone dumped the first of them in a pool outside Ahwahnee Hotel.

"Maybe someone 50 years ago came in and introduced them into Yosemite,"
Gediman said. "They were simply tolerated for the last 50, 60 years. But we
felt it was time to intervene."

So the park's wildlife biologists drained the pond three weeks ago and
rounded up the critters in the middle of the night. Armed with flashlights,
biologists caught 45 bullfrogs and 200 pounds of tadpoles.

The bullfrogs were killed with blows to the head, which Gediman said is the
most humane way to destroy them.

The biologists went back to the pond Tuesday to see if any bullfrogs were
left, but didn't find any. Gediman said park officials will continue
looking for the bullfrogs in other ponds or wetland areas in Yosemite
Valley.

"We're monitoring other areas and trying to eradicate them from
everywhere," Gediman said.



Copyright Union-Tribune Publishing Co.

Date: Tue, 28 Oct 1997 23:02:13 -0500
From: [e-mail] (amanda brown)
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Subject: NASA & environmental collapse
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Someone posted a message on this topic about half a year ago.  Does
anyone still have it and if so would you forward it to me.  Thanks
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 1997 22:29:31 -0500
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Subject: Letters needed!
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