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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)
- From: angst@cdsnet.net
- To: ar-news@envirolink.org
- Subject: Yosemite silences croaking bullfrogs
- Message-ID: <199710290237.SAA19575@mail.cdsnet.net>
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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: amanda246@juno.com (amanda brown)
- To: ar-news@envirolink.org
- Subject: NASA & environmental collapse
- Message-ID: <19971028.230217.4814.2.amanda246@juno.com>
-
-
-
- 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
- From: allen schubert <ar-admin@envirolink.org>
- To: "AR News" <ar-news@envirolink.org>
- Subject: Letters needed!
- Message-ID: <3.0.1.32.19971028222931.006923ac@envirolink.org>
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