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MARCH 14, 2011

By Julie • March 14, 2011 • 18 comments Tweet Share ACTION ALERT! Tomorrow, MARCH 15, 2011, is the deadline for public comment on a proposal to hunt sandhill cranes in Kentucky. Letters and emails by the thousand poured into the commissioners’ offices, protesting its crane hunting proposal. Not sure what that is.

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JULY 17, 2011

The public comment period on the Kentucky sandhill crane hunting proposal ends AUGUST 1 2011. Here are six top reasons to protest this hunt. photo by Vickie Henderson Six Top Reasons to Protest Eastern Flyway Crane Hunting: Sandhill cranes have a very low recruitment rate. Please act now.

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AUGUST 1, 2011

People who protest our proposed hunt are trying to strip rights from the hunting public. Anyone who protests this hunt is making an assault on the American way, on our right to harvest our native wildlife—a right that we have held since the first colonist fired a blunderbuss in what was to be America. Here’s how to do it.

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MAY 21, 2011

of Fish and Wildlife Resources—who will get together on June 3, 2011, to vote on whether to open season on Sandhill Cranes in Kentucky. On Dr. Gassett’s answering machine, which someone calling to protest the hunt is likely to encounter, is a similar message about the quality of crane meat. The full commission meets June 3, 2011.

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JUNE 15, 2011

Thousands of letters and emails of protest apparently fell on deaf ears. Shooting could start as early as mid-December 2011. Kentucky’s wildlife offices have been flooded with protests, whether written, telephoned or emailed. Which wasn’t a surprise, since everyone on the commission is a hunter.

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