By Dave Golowenski For The Columbus Dispatch
Sunday February 9, 2014
A divergent range of sportsmen’s groups commended the passage in the U.S. House of Representatives of the Sportsmen’s Heritage and Recreational Enhancement Act (SHARE) last week.
The package of eight bills represented by SHARE would promote hunting and fishing on land managed by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management and make the purchase of a federal duck stamp easier. Among the act’s authors is Rep. Bob Latta (R-Bowling Green).
Groups including Safari Club International, the National Rifle Association and the Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership praised the bill and urged the Senate to follow the House’s bipartisan approval.
Meanwhile, a measure that would raise the price of a federal duck stamp to $25 from the current $15 moved out of a Senate committee last week. Revenues generated by the stamp help fund wetlands conservation.
No bump in price has occurred since 1991, the longest period without an increase since the program was established during the 1930s.
Honked off
A Mississippi hunter is reporting he got his 8-point buck after he blew his nose. The sound apparently ticked off the buck, which came running toward the hunter’s stand in full attack mode.
Exposing the Big Game 
JFC, this planet is a pissing pot.
I watched the hearings on c-span, all the usual culprits repeating the lies over and over as if the more they speak them, the more the tiny truths within them will make a beautiful, shining object, irrestable to all those voting. I hope the Senate has more common sense than a brook trout.
Good point about the irresistible shinning object, but the senators will never have the common sense inherent in a brook trout.
That’s why we have to all write them and tell them their reputations are on the line with this vote and throw some poll numbers at them that make them wake up and wet their pants! Friends don’t let friends remain quiet. Start a letter writing campaign in your state to your Senator!
Another predictable move by your federal Parliament of Whores. This is the much touted benefits of Democracy in action, folks. Everyone here needs to obtain a voting list on this bill that passed with “bipartisan” support, not to take note of the ubiquitous scumbags who voted for it but to identify for future support those few courageous politicians who were willing to buck the shooting lobby and vote against it.
Exactly! Let me …and all of us know if you come up with a list. Ralph Nader or Public Citizen will know how to get it.
Hi Melody! You can find out the status and final vote by Congressman and party on any bill before Congress by going to: http://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/112-2012/h164 .
Thank you Geoff! I hope everyone takes note of these links and prints out the list of who is a NRA asskisser and who values nature! We must write and reward those with copious praise who stood up to these sociopaths who want to make targets of all creatures.
I take no pride in the warnings I’ve posted since the delisting bill for Gray Wolves. Every warning is coming true. People thought I was nuts when I started warning to gather up wolf pups who were orphaned. Now it is necessary if we are to save the species! The wolf biologists are even getting worried and some are becoming activists.
It’s time to get everyone on board and stop the insanity! Groups must not argue about foolish differences. We are up against a well organized, well funded bunch of armed killers, this isn’t going to be easy.
This is the worst bill EVER. It scares the piss out of me. My senators will vote for it, and they’re both democrats. When one of them (Martin Heinrich) was still running for the senate he voted FOR the “hunting heritage act” (which morphed into this thing) and I and my friends called his office to ream him a new one. His inadequate excuse was that if he hadn’t voted for it, the NRA would have poured a fortune into his opponent’s campaign. I hated to, but since his opponent was worse I voted for him. He’s been voting pro-psychopath ever since. I won’t make that mistake again.
Even the liberal senators in Washington state are falling for this “Sportsmens” “heritage” bullshit.
If you have European roots, unless you are a royal, you have no hunting heritage. The king owned all the wild animals and fish, poachers faced death. For example, during the potato famine in Ireland, an island surrounded by an ocean full of fish, people starved rather than risk hunting oe fishing!
So here is the real heritage… mutton stew, bread and if you had a cow, milk.
Still need proof people in high places don’t care? Time for activists to stop trusting politicians and corporations to do the right thing and stand up for the right thing themselves!