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I just received this via email. Please be sure to pass onto any friends in or around Douglas county that might be able to attend:
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Dear Defender of Hunting in Oregon -
The Portland Zoo is taking its campaign to install a California-style traditional lead ammunition ban here in Oregon. The Douglas County News Review printed on Tuesday an article about a Thursday, 7pm forum at the Douglas County Library to discuss a traditional lead ammunition ban. We are including a link to the article <broken link removed> .
Hunters and hunting supporters from across Oregon are needed to submit comments to the News Review before Thursday's forum and let them know you oppose any controversial California-style traditional lead ammunition ban. Hunters and sport shooters deserve to have the choice of what ammunition best fits their needs, whether that is traditional lead or alternative metals. <broken link removed>
Much of what the Portland Zoo wildlfe director and Umpqua Valley Audubon Society president say about the need of Oregon to follow California is misleading.
The California experience is one of higher costs, lower hunting participation rates, lost tax revenue, decreased wildlife conservation funds, and loss of jobs and economic activity. California banned lead in the Condor zone and that effort abjectly failed. Rather than learn from the experience, legislators expanded the ban statewide without considering the possibility that other sources of lead were playing a role.
Calfornia's ban has been widely viewed as a de facto ban on hunting. There are better science-based voluntary measures supported by the industry, hunters and wildlife management experts that can effectively interrupt the possible pathway of lead from hunters' ammunition to condors; condors that do not currently exist in Oregon. There are simply too many unanswered questions and unconsidered factors relative to the potential impact of banning lead ammunition.
Other states that are home to the California condor, namely Arizona and Utah, have successfully implemented voluntary lead removal programs that have engaged hunters in a meaningful way. The California approach of ramming down an unpopular and poorly thought out ban is detrimental to conservation as it casts hunters as the enemy, rather than as the original conservationists that they are. A voluntary program engages the hunting community, allows time for manufacturers to increase production capabilities over time, and most importantly, doesn't suddenly leave hunters without ammunition.
Once again, please take a few minutes and send a note to the Douglas County News Review and let them know your thoughts on this very important issue to Oregon hunters and sportshooters.
Thank you.
The Oregon Alliance to Protect Hunting and Fishing
The Oregon Alliance to Protect Hunting and Fishing is a coalition of hunters, anglers, small businesses, and sportsmen organizations who oppose a California-style ban on the use of lead in traditional ammunition.
www.Oregon-Alliance.org
https://www.facebook.com/OregonAlliancetoProtectHuntingandFishing
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Dear Defender of Hunting in Oregon -
The Portland Zoo is taking its campaign to install a California-style traditional lead ammunition ban here in Oregon. The Douglas County News Review printed on Tuesday an article about a Thursday, 7pm forum at the Douglas County Library to discuss a traditional lead ammunition ban. We are including a link to the article <broken link removed> .
Hunters and hunting supporters from across Oregon are needed to submit comments to the News Review before Thursday's forum and let them know you oppose any controversial California-style traditional lead ammunition ban. Hunters and sport shooters deserve to have the choice of what ammunition best fits their needs, whether that is traditional lead or alternative metals. <broken link removed>
Much of what the Portland Zoo wildlfe director and Umpqua Valley Audubon Society president say about the need of Oregon to follow California is misleading.
The California experience is one of higher costs, lower hunting participation rates, lost tax revenue, decreased wildlife conservation funds, and loss of jobs and economic activity. California banned lead in the Condor zone and that effort abjectly failed. Rather than learn from the experience, legislators expanded the ban statewide without considering the possibility that other sources of lead were playing a role.
Calfornia's ban has been widely viewed as a de facto ban on hunting. There are better science-based voluntary measures supported by the industry, hunters and wildlife management experts that can effectively interrupt the possible pathway of lead from hunters' ammunition to condors; condors that do not currently exist in Oregon. There are simply too many unanswered questions and unconsidered factors relative to the potential impact of banning lead ammunition.
Other states that are home to the California condor, namely Arizona and Utah, have successfully implemented voluntary lead removal programs that have engaged hunters in a meaningful way. The California approach of ramming down an unpopular and poorly thought out ban is detrimental to conservation as it casts hunters as the enemy, rather than as the original conservationists that they are. A voluntary program engages the hunting community, allows time for manufacturers to increase production capabilities over time, and most importantly, doesn't suddenly leave hunters without ammunition.
Once again, please take a few minutes and send a note to the Douglas County News Review and let them know your thoughts on this very important issue to Oregon hunters and sportshooters.
Thank you.
The Oregon Alliance to Protect Hunting and Fishing
The Oregon Alliance to Protect Hunting and Fishing is a coalition of hunters, anglers, small businesses, and sportsmen organizations who oppose a California-style ban on the use of lead in traditional ammunition.
www.Oregon-Alliance.org
https://www.facebook.com/OregonAlliancetoProtectHuntingandFishing