PLEASE CROSS POST

1) *Item*: There is an ” *Assembly* Minority *Hunting* and *Fishing Task
Force” of which*
a member of the Environmental Conservation committee (site of the
Avella bill S3327/A6519) is a member http://nyassembly.gov/mem/Ma
rc-W-Butler/bio/

2) *Item*: Charges were just dropped against a hunter who killed an
innocent woman walking her dogs in upstate NY.

3) *Item*: There are 2 bills in this committee (A08646/A477) to both
allow hunting in city-populated areas, and to lower the ‘universal hunting
age’ to 12 yrs old.

*We cite these as more reasons the hunter-controlled, hunting-promoting DEC
advisory board must allow non-hunters to serve on it – and S3327/A6519 must
be put to a vote in the En Con committee.* *We have also discovered that
the members of this committee don’t necessarily know about the bill! *

*The national movement for gun control and banning assault weapons – which
hunters fight against passing – has come to a head.* PLEASE CALL AT LEAST
ONE MEMBER OF THE EN CON COMMITTEE AND *POLITELY* URGE THEM TO *SUPPORT
S3327/ A6519*. We have already posted the fact that a record-number of
‘non-consumptive’ park users (bird watching, wildlife photography etc)
visited NYS parks last year – yet they have *no voice* in DEC decisions.
This board must be diverse and democratic! http://www.wgrz.c
om/article/news/local/new-york/record-number-of-visitors-to-
nys-parks-in-2017/71-520672145

<<<<<<<<FIND MEMBERS OF THE EN CON COMMITTEE
HERE>>>>>>

http://nyassembly.gov/comm/?
id=15

* DON’T LET HUNTERS DENY US OUR RIGHTS; PLEASE MAKE YOUR VOICE HEARD*
*Hunters are actually in the minority and the # is declining – yet they
have far more influence than non-hunters, largely due to a biased,
antiquated board that was set up almost 100 years ago; time for a change.
This struggle is going on all over the country*

Any questions, let us know. Original alert here: http://www.all-creatures
.org/adow/act-20180202.html