What’s going on in Oregon? Normally when we see Western types wearing Western hats and complaining about the government, it’s a good thing. Listen closer to the message and you’ll learn they want to eliminate public land and use it for personal use. What?
Several sportsmen groups like Trout Unlimited have taken action posting information and blogging about the problem. They are in favor of public wildlife refuges and other public lands and outright oppose giving control to the states. Here’s what Rich Landers has to say in The Spokesman-Review.
Several sportsman’s groups, including the Backcountry Hunters & Anglers and Theodore Roosevelt Conservation partnership have stepped up to call foul on the lawbreakers who seized Malheur National Wildlife Refuge facilities, noting that they are violating the public interest as well as the law. Judith Kohler of the National Wildlife Federation points out wide-spread support for maintaining public lands and not giving them away to anyone, least of all to militants wearing cowboy hats and waving guns. Show your support for wildlife refuges, if you haven’t already, buy buying federal duck stamps, she suggests… [continued]
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