Senate Bill 31 was rejected by the Senate Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee during its first hearing at the Colorado Capitol

Jesse Paul

5:34 PM MST on Feb 3, 2022

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Colorado lawmakers on Thursday voted downa contentious measure that would have bannedthe hunting of bobcats, Canadian lynx and mountain lions in the state.

Senate Bill 31was rejected by the Senate Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee during its first hearing at the Capitol, which lasted several hours because of the amount of testimony in opposition and support. The vote to kill the legislation was 4-1.

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The bill stoked anger among Colorado hunters, anglers and farmers, but was supported by the Humane Society of…

The big cat’s remains were brought to a school so kids could get an up-close look at wildlife

February 4, 2022 5:40 am

Matt Chibe

LINCOLN, Neb. (KLKN) — Ponca Public Schools shared photos of a recent visitor that few would have expected.

The local game warden brought a mountain lion that died after an accidental trapping in Dixon County.

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Kids were anything but shy, crowding around a truck to see what had been wandering the area.

This follows a recent uptick in mountain lion sightings and encounters in eastern Nebraska, including right here in Lincoln last December.

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SCHUYLER — A hunter in Herkimer County was fined more than $1,000 after claiming he wasn’t trespassing as long as he was standing under power lines, according to the state Department of Environmental Conservation.

Authorities said the hunter, whose identity was not released, was found shooting deer on
private property in Schuyler on Dec. 4.

Authorities interviewed the hunter and he told them that if he was standing under power lines that meant he was within a public right-of-way, even on private property.

The hunter claimed he’d hunted under similar right-of-ways for years, authorities said. When questioned further, officials said the hunter admitting to knowing he was wrong.

DEC officials said the hunter had also already filed his regular season antlered tag the week prior.

The hunter went to Schuyler Town Court and pleaded guilty to one count each of trespass, illegally taking a white-tailed…

February 4, 2022Written byCindy

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The Iowa Department of Natural Resources is seeking the public’s help in finding the person responsible for shooting a bald eagle that was discovered in Cedar Rapids.

While no longer listed as an endangered species, bald eagles are protected by federal law.

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The Iowa Department of Natural Resources (DNR) is asking for help to identify the person responsible for shooting a bald eagle that was discovered in southeast Cedar Rapids on Jan. 9, 2022.

The DNR responded to a report of an injured bald eagle along the Cedar River near the Sac and Fox trail. The…

August 2014

If an animal lives,
kill it.
If it gets away,
hunt it down and kill it.
If it learns to adapt to humans,
hate it and kill it year ‘round.
If it becomes endangered,
kill its mother and put it in a zoo.
If an animal proves intelligent,
respect it then kill it.
If you think it dumb,
kill it and eat it.
If it simply is,
kill it because it’s there.
If anyone’s watching,
Just call it “conservation.”

by Jim Robertson

October 2015

What do you call a war waged on unarmed opponents? Considering the rate and frequency of shooting I’m hearing out there now, there’s a massacre going on. If the victims being slain were human, it would be called mass murder. A pre-dawn ambush. All-out insanity. Evil incarnate.

But to the hunters on opening day annihilating ducks and geese, it’s tradition; harvesting nature; business as usual.

Someone must have signaled “charge” to an entire platoon waiting to attack at dawn, and a mindless barrage of semi-automatic shotgun fire shattered the morning air. Now it’s 7:30 a.m. and only the random explosions break the stillness. The blitzkrieg has been going on steadily for over forty-five minutes—since before first light (sunrise today is officially at 7:35, according to the NOAA weather radio).

I wasn’t sure if the “enemy,” no, “opponent,” no, victims were the elk herd who occasionally…

by Jim Robertson September 2015

Although one never saw the light of day again (former bakery-shop owner Hansen died in an Alaskan prison in 2014) and one may never see the inside of a courtroom, there are numerous similarities between serial killer/trophy hunter Robert Hansen and dentist/trophy hunter Walter Palmer:

• Both were family men, well-liked and successful in small business
• Both were avid sport hunters (though thus far Dr. Palmer‘s chosen “trophies” were taken only from the legal, non-human side of the imaginary great divide that separates worthy life forms from fair “game.”)
• Both “sportsmen” Walter Palmer and Robert Hansen enjoyed the challenge of bow hunting (presumably to prolong the agony for their prey)
• Both needed to constantly refresh their “trophies” in an obsessive effort to boost their flagging self-esteems (after all, how much macho pride can be derived from being a baker…or a dentist?)
• Both serial killers objectified and…

by Jim Robertson

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The protagonist in Nobel Peace Prize laureate and author Isaac Bashevis Singer’s book, The Letter Writer, stated, “In relation to animals, all people are Nazis.”

Ah, the Nazis; who can forget them? They were those goose-stepping narcissists who had the arrogant audacity to think themselves superior to all other races. Hell, “Nazi” even sounds like a derivative of the word “narcissism.” Thank God that kind of grandiosity is a thing of the past.

Or is it…

Not if you, like Isaac Singer, consider the attitudes human beings have toward their fellow animals. When you allow yourself even for a moment to ponder the plight of non-humans at the hands of man and connect the dots, you’re sure to come to the logical conclusion that: in relation to animals, all people are Narcissists.

Although Galileo and Copernicus have long since put to rest the notion of…