call or email your assemblymen today. trappers and hunters need your help

[rgw]

come on everyone let your voice be herd call or email you assemblymen and let them know you oppose acr25 & scr11. for the people who havent been emailing or calling because you dont trap you now have a reason, bill s2702 to ban bear hunting and baiting deer in bear areas. call and or email and let them know you oppose acr25, scr11 & s2702. dont put this off do it today. vote it tomorrow.

Edited October 19, 2016 by rgw

[mazzgolf]

I sent this - feel free to send something like it as well to all the legislators.

 

Please reject S2702 and any attempt to remove the black bear off the list of game animals and halting the bear hunt. We absolutely need an annual bear hunt to manage their numbers. Anyone in north Jersey living and farming in those communities where bears are getting out of control can tell you we need it. Please do not listen to the emotional rhetoric of the animal rights activists - they are anti-science just as the climate change skeptics are.

 

Please examine ALL the scientific data and studies that were reviewed by the Div. of Fish and Wildlife, all of which have been publicly released in their comprehensive bear management policy. The current bear management policy can be found in a scientific, peer-reviewed document that is footnoted with links to the studies used to justify certain aspects of the policy.  It's a very comprehensive policy with a lot of details on the history of the policy up to today's hunt. A huge amount of research, data, and analysis went into this policy.  It's not just one document or study, it is the culmination of dozens of studies and documents!  Check out the link and you'll see how scientifically based NJ's bear policy is:

 

http://www.njfishandwildlife.com/bearpolicy15.htm

 

To reject this is to reject good science, which is what the animal rights activists are doing.

 

The recent bear mauling death of the young Rutgers student should have been a wake up call to everyone that the number of bears in this state  have grown too much and need to be managed as only a bear hunt can (as illustrated in the scientific consensus mentioned in the DFW reports).

 

Also, please reject ACR25 and SCR11 which are currently being debated which would outlaw trappers' use of DP traps. These are not traps that were banned in 1984 and are not the same as steel jawed leg holds. Again, please review the Div. Fish and Wildlife's information on this.

 

Such a small minority of animal rights activists should not bring politics and their fringe out-of-mainstream ideology into our wildlife management practices. Hunters and trappers are a vital tool in our wildlife management programs and we need to support the work they are doing, not handcuffing them with anti-science, out-of-mainstream, restrictive laws.

 

Thank you for your consideration.

 

 

 

[rgw]

looks good mazzgolf. may have to use that one

[rgw]

did you send it to assemblymen also, thats where vote is tomorrow,

[mazzgolf]

I sent it to all of them Senate, Assembly - every single one of them.

[rgw]

awesome, btw the list you put up before is awesome, I use it every day

[mazzgolf]

awesome, btw the list you put up before is awesome, I use it every day

 

I linked to it again up above - click the "all the legislators" link in my post #2 above

[Haskell_Hunter]

Here are some other points you can use:

 

Please vote “NO” on S2702 and oppose any attempt to remove the black bear off the list of game animals and halting the bear hunt. We’ve already done this dance one time before, and after several lawsuits and intervention from the courts, the bear hunt was reinstated.  Going down the same road another time to see if a different result is possible is a waste of time and resources.  Additionally, managing the bear population will cost money.  If it’s not funded, it will create a wildlife management crisis, and if it is funded, it will increase our taxes.  Which of those two are you willing to publicly support?  The current policy does neither.

 

 

The supporters of S2702 justify their arguments with emotion, not science.  When we inject emotion into arguments and solutions they consistently become ineffective policy.  We’ve already had one fatality in NJ in the last decade due to a bear attack, saving one life is worth supporting the NJDFW’s Bear Management Policy.  Are you willing to accept the responsibility and to be held accountable for another human fatality because you supported an emotional argument over science?

 

The emotional, anti-science minority also advocate for sterilization or birth control of the herd as an alternative.  These methodologies and techniques are detailed in the current Black Bear Management Policy.  Several of the methods require unapproved drugs to be administered.  Others have not be used in a wild population, and the effects of these drugs on the animal and the environment have not been studied.  Furthermore, several of these drugs can have unintended adverse affects on the population, which could lead to an unintended and uncontrollable collapse of the population.  And finally, birth control on a wild population has a very low success rate, and is very expensive.  Are you willing to publicly support increasing NJ taxes for a plan that has a very low success rate?  You may as well call it Obamacare for bears.  Every year the cost to manage the plan will rise significantly while the overall success rate remains very low.  I will remember that when I go to the ballot box.

[Haskell_Hunter]

S2702 is an emotional, non-scientific reaction to a well-managed and executed Black Bear Management Policy.  It will assuredly increase the adverse risk (potentially fatal) of bear-human encounters, increase taxes, and have a very, very low success rate.  You have the choice of supporting a non-scientific, high-risk piece of legislation, or you have the option of supporting peer-reviewed science generated by a government agency that has demonstrated itself as fiscally responsible and highly effective.  How you vote on that decision is how I will vote in turn.

[rgw]

bump

[Haskell_Hunter]

http://www.state.nj.us/dep/fgw/traps.htm

 

Good link to send your legislators who are clueless.