HB 2624 in Oregon!!!

[Broadfoot]

This is my first post so here goes...

My name is Jerod Broadfoot and I am the Executive Director of the Oregon Outdoor Council. http://www.OregonOutdoorCouncil.org

Our Facebook is www.facebook.com/oregonoutdoorcouncil

We are sponsoring a bill that would allow voters in each county to vote and opt out of our statewide ban on the use of dogs to hunt cougars. We need all of the support we can get folks!

I have personally been working on this issue for over 15 years and we are very close on this bill. We will be moving it out of the House of Representatives as we have the votes to do so. If everyone can check out our website and see what we are all about I would greatly appreciate it.

Jerod

[Unreal_tk]

For those who haven't met Jerod, he isn't another lobbist who just was hired. He is a family man from the country just like most of us, he's been working towards this for a long time. I encourage all oregon residents and even non residents to join the Oregon Outdoor Council.

[mike martell]

Thanks Jerod.
Here is my position in this matter....

Please support both H.B. 2624 & 3395

By doing so, you will assist in removing Government intervention into wildlife management. Oregonians removed a critical management tool in 1994 with passage of Measure 18. Once private sport hounds were removed, management become very difficult. Government has insured Odfw the right to "manage wildlife" and by whatever means possible. Odfw's Administrator Ronald Anglin has stated many times over the years and I quote, "Sport hunters can't meet management objectives" What the man references is the loss of sport hounds and even though spot and stalk hunting by sport hunters is allowed, these methods fall short of proper management objectives. Odfw has recruited Usda and Government along with the same type hounds we used that have been tried and proven to be the only effective management tool that ironically replaced private sport hunting with hounds, simply because Mr. Anglin has no choice by current law. Currently these programs are being funded by sport hunters and tax paying citizens. Management has a different approach today because of liberal intervention into Game management. Lets compare pre ban 1994 to Usda today.State Government must take advantage of limited resourses and mandates to Usda Federal Government the killing of all treed cougar over Government / contractor hounds, while prior to 1994, Odfw rejected sport hunters from killing lactating females with baby kitten and sow black bear with cubs. These by the way are being classified as management objective administrative removals and those cougar, including the females and kittens are being hauled to the landfill and dumped like garbage.

The only management tool left in the box for Black bear since the removal of sport hunting with hounds is the mechanically fired ankle catch snare set over a rank bait in the spring to reduce over populated Black Bears and one more time, simply because Administrator Anglin has no choice in this matter dictated by misinformed citizens of Oregon. Spot and stalk hunting also fails to reach management objectives= the ability to kill enough animals for proper management sustainability, So the remaining tool is implemented. Oregonians have a problem with select harvesting over hounds with the ability to select the sex, age and if the animal has kittens or cubs. The snare does not discriminate with its catch. Statistics report the high snare numbers of sows with baby cubs and those baby cubs killed are labeled as "unknown" and also dumped like trash. Oregonians have a bigger problem with hounds than this? They have a lesser problem with Government? The choice is very clear! Their is no choice, ethical management requires hounds. Support passage of both bills!
Mike Martell

[Unreal_tk]

Please contact the legislature!

http://oregonoutdoorcouncil.org/contact ... n-hb-2624/

Its really simple to do and only takes a few minutes folks!

[oregonhillbilly]

Thanks to the above folks for your efforts in bringing HB 2624 this far.

I for one am sick and tired of allowing these politicians and government agencies to take our rights away from us, while they use tax payers dollars to continue the same practices that they outlawed for the private indivisual. Im tired of private indivisuals who put theirselves first and dont support houndsmen as a group.If you are not doing your part to support this bill then you yourself do'nt deserve the rights to run hounds in the state of Oregon.This is not a fight for a target species, but a political battle to regain our rights as houndsmen.If you think you can ignore this any longer and that you will not lose your rights to hunt other target species with your dogs then you are a fool.Take a look around you! Let's take the past 35 years for example....How many of you would have thought we would see the number of gates,regulations,lost of rights,etc..?
We are rapidly losing our rights to pursue what we took for granted only a few years back. Do your part to stop these politicians and keep control on our side.
Charles

[DogLakeBlues]

X2 oregon hillbilly this goes much farther than just hunting. We all share completely different values then the people always taking from us because they want to live in the concrete jungle and dictate what we do in rural oregon. It will be epic to get a bill like this passed not only for our state but our neighbors also. Jared thank you for all you have done for everyone on this site. I am looking foward to shaking your hand someday.I might suggest that this thread get moved to the hunting with big game dogs section just for more exposure. maybe a few of the out of state clubs would be interested in joining OOC.How is the meeting shaping up with the senate chair? Mike as always well spoken.
Ken Driessen