[TN-Bird] A plea for help!

From: Cynthia Routledge <routledges@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: TN-Bird Listserv <tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2011 21:59:03 -0500
The Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources (KDFWR) is planning on 
implementing a hunting season on Sandhill Cranes this December.  The eastern 
population of cranes, which migrates east of the Mississippi River and through 
Kentucky, has been protected for nearly a century, and KDFWR wants Ky to be the 
first state to hunt them in modern times.  I lead the field trips for Barren 
State Park's Crane Weekends, and a Crane Festival is being considered at this 
time.  If these birds are hunted, they will become unapproachable, having a 
drastic negative impact on crane-watching.  In addition, the International 
Crane Foundation (ICF), the world authority on cranes, has assessed Ky's hunt 
plan and recommends that the birds NOT be hunted now, as much population study 
is needed.  Sandhill Cranes have one of the lowest reproductive rates of any 
North America bird.

The regulation will be filed with legislators Wednesday, June 15, and we need 
everyone to send the governor an email now expressing opposition to the hunt, 
asking that he have the plan withdrawn.

If you reside outside Ky, tell him that you will boycott the state and not 
spend money here if the cranes are hunted.  If you purchase a "nature" license 
plate in Ky, funding goes to KDFWR.  Tell him you will no longer purchase these 
plates.  If you feel that hunting cranes supports the backward and uneducated 
stigma which Ky holds, tell him.  

Please help us by sending the governor a quick email before Wednesday, a couple 
of lines will be sufficient.  A link for that is provided below.          
http://www.governor.ky.gov/contact/contact.htm

More info on the cranes and proposed hunt can be found here:
http://kyc4sandhillcranes.wordpress.com/

I've been an avid outdoorsman all my life, and am pro-hunting in general, but I 
am passionate about protecting the cranes.  Please help us.    

david
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"When one tugs at a single thing in Nature, 
he finds it attached to the rest of the world."  
~John Muir
[TN-Bird] A plea for help!

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