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Article 12/27/04 |
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| Majority
against bison hunt
By The Helena Indepent Record - 12/27/04 |
Last
week's Question of the Week — "Do you agree
with the FWP Commission's decision to permit bison hunting"
— quickly turned into a national affair. We received
e-mail from all over the country from people appalled
at the idea of killing Yellowstone National Park buffalo.
Still, nearly a third of the responses backed the plan
to allow hunters to bag 10 bison that wander out of the
park this winter.
Among 1,501 responses to this unscientific poll, 1,013
opposed the idea and 488 were in favor.
Some readers' comments:
-- I personally will not set foot in the state of Montana
and spend tourist dollars there until the state stops
its horrific persecution and campaign of what is essentially
the murder of benign and wonderful animals. And I tell
everyone I can to do likewise: Stay out of Montana, the
state slaughters the Yellowstone bison!
-- This hunt sends a terrible message to the people of
the United States, that hunters and government officials
can rob them of their buffalo and get away with this crime.
-- Give us a break! The peabrains at the FWP who OK'd
designating the proposed bison harvest a "hunt"
need to have a reality check given them by Montana sportsmen.
A "wild" bison offers about as much of a hunting
challenge as a grazing dairy cow.
-- I think it is absolutely ridiculous to open buffalo
hunting with 10 permits. A thousand people will apply,
and FWP will make money. Ten permits, 4,500 buffalo makes
no sense.
-- All I can say is thank God I don't live in Montana.
You people have to be members of the Bottom of the Barrel
Club and have an IQ of zero.
-- My wife and I have decided not to vacation in your
beautiful state until the policy changes, which is a shame
because I really want to see Glacier National Park. This
hunt sews it up for us, though.
-- Montana continues to shoot itself in the foot. Shooting
10 standing target bison and calling it a "hunt"
is tarnishing our image. Isn't there an economic cost
to this? The public cares about wildlife issues and the
interest of a few continue to override those of the many.
-- This year, instead of visiting Montana, we will be
going to Kruger National Park in South Africa, where the
economic value of wildlife and tourism is respected and
valued.
-- I am a 67-year-old mixed blood woman who has been fighting
cancer for nearly six years now. Do you know or care what
it does to someone like me to see and hear of what your
plans are for our buffalo? Do you care?
-- From the way this poll started out, I would guess someone
or some group is stuffing the ballet box. Why not run
the poll using Montana hunters with valid hunting licenses?
I would guess most intelligent hunters would realize the
herds need thinning to survive and be healthy. (The ones
that don't get shot, that is.)
-- Stop the bison hunt! What is wrong with you people?
Don't you know the whole country is watching you? How
can you call it a hunt when the bison aren't even afraid
of people in Yellowstone? This is not a sport! It's a
slaughter!
-- Yes, I do agree with the FWP Commission. This is the
best method of controlling the herd size. This method
should also be used to control the deer in Helena.
-- I am totally against "buffalo hunting." I
am so against such a thing that I have headed from California
to West Yellowstone to join BFC in the middle of winter
to protect the buffalo from such outrageous incidents.
The buffalo belong!
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