APRIL 1, 2011 "In The Crosshairs"
April 1, 2011
Pemmican & Marfood USA To Donate Beef Jerky to SCIF Sportsmen Against
Hunger
Marfood USA’s Pemmican Brand Beef Jerky plans to give away
one free bag of beef jerky every 20.11 seconds on April 1, to kick
off its new Pemmican Trail campaign. As a way of assuring the public
that the free bag every 20.11 seconds isn’t a put-on, for every free
bag won by consumers during the April 1 giveaway, Marfood USA will
donate two bags of Pemmican Beef Jerky to Safari Club International
Foundation’s Sportsmen against Hunger Program. That amounts to over
8,500 bags for the SAH Program. Sign up to win starting at Midnight
on April 1stat
www.pemmican.comor
http://www.youbuywebuypemmican.com/.
Iowa Sportsmen's
Caucus Passes Law Legalizing Dove Hunting
“Friday, March 25 (Des Moines, IA) - The Iowa Legislative
Sportsmen’s Caucus, led by Caucus Chairs, Sen. Dick Dearden and Rep.
Rich Arnold, recently passed and Governor Terry Brandstad signed
into law, legislation allowing dove hunting in Iowa. Dove hunting
has been illegal in Iowa for nearly a century, but this new law
directs the Iowa Department of Natural Resources to set dates for a
new dove season in Iowa. According to a state natural resources
staff study, the economic impact of this law allowing dove hunting
will attract approximately 20,000 dove hunters, create over 90 jobs
and provide $6.9 million to the state and local economies.” Read
more at http://bit.ly/hKgNbb.
SCI helped achieve another litigation victory, this time
for Columbian Sharp-tailed Grouse (“CSG”). This week, SCI
received a favorable ruling in a case about the possible listing of
the CSG under the ESA. On November 25, 2008, two
environmental groups filed suit alleging, among other claims, that
the FWS did not use the best scientific evidence in rejecting their
petition to list the CSG as threatened or endangered. SCI
participated as an amicus in this case and was the lone voice of
sportsmen. Currently, CSG hunting occurs in Idaho, Utah and
Colorado. The Idaho District Court ruled that the Plaintiff’s
petition did not provide any new information warranting a possible
listing and granted the Defendant’s Motion for Summary judgment.
If the plaintiffs had been successful and the CSG was listed,
hunting would have ended throughout the listed range. SCI’s
brief focused on the plaintiff’s failure to provide new information,
which was the reasoning the Judge used in deciding the case.
http://bit.ly/gE9LG4.
Feral Cats Effecting Wildlife: Tweety Was Right: Cats Are A
Bird’s No. 1 Enemy
“While public attention has focused on wind turbines as a
menace to birds, a new study shows that a far greater threat may be
posed by a more familiar antagonist: the pet house cat. A new study
in The Journal of Ornithology on the mortality of baby gray catbirds
in the Washington suburbs found that cats were the No. 1 killer in
the area, by a large margin. Nearly 80 percent of the birds were
killed by predators, and cats were responsible for 47 percent of
those deaths, according to the researchers, from the Smithsonian
Institution and Towson University in Maryland. Death rates were
particularly high in neighborhoods with large cat populations.”
(Source: NY Times Online) Read more at
http://nyti.ms/fDD7lA.
The Hunt For An African Stock Raiding Lion
“Cattle in Africa are beyond mere protein on the hoof.
Cattle are wealth, used to barter for brides, exchange for tools,
sell to buy medicine or other essentials and, very occasionally,
butcher and eat as part of a ceremony or celebration. The Masai
drink their blood, mixed with a splash of fresh milk. So valuable
are cattle that an African herdsman thinks of his cattle in the same
way as a Wall Street investor thinks of his portfolio--treasure it,
horde it, never let it get eaten up. A cattleman's worst nightmare,
the equivalent of a global credit crisis, is a stock-raiding lion.”
(Source: Petersen’s Hunting Online) Read more at
http://bit.ly/hxYzcX.
Humanitarian
Services Newsletter Spring Edition
The SCIF Humanitarian Services
April 2011 Quarterly
Newsletter in 3-Dis now available.
Please click to read about numerous projects undertaken recently by
our chapters and by individual members in the realm of the Disabled
Hunter, SafariCare/SafariWish, Sensory Safari and Sportsmen Against
Hunger programs. http://bit.ly/eQk7iN.
Valley Forge Deer Go Back to Court
SCI has been granted amicus status to help defend a cull of
deer in Valley Forge National Park. After a federal district
court in Philadelphia ruled in favor of the National Park Service’s
decision to cull, the animal rights groups that had brought the case
to court appealed. The Third Circuit Court of Appeals is
deciding whether to hear oral argument on the appeal in June of this
year. The appeal has not interfered with the ongoing cull
being successfully carried out by sharpshooters in the park.
SCI Gains Party Status to Defend Wild Horse Gather
A Federal District Court in California granted SCI full
defendant-intervenor status in a case challenging the Bureau of Land
Management’s gather of excess wild horses and burros (WHBs) at the
Twin Peaks Area in California and Nevada. SCI is defending the
gather because excess WHBs damage the range and the wildlife that
exists there, including game animals. The plaintiffs in the
case, In Defense of Animals, seek to return nearly 2,000 WHBs to the
Twin Peaks Area and curtail the Bureau’s ability to gather and
dispose of the harmful WHBs across the West. The Court is
currently considering a motion to dismiss the lawsuit, which SCI
supports.
SCI Gains Party Status to Defend Wild Horse Gather
A Federal District Court in California granted SCI full
defendant-intervenor status in a case challenging the Bureau of Land
Management’s gather of excess wild horses and burros (WHBs) at the
Twin Peaks Area in California and Nevada. SCI is defending the
gather because excess WHBs damage the range and the wildlife that
exists there, including game animals. The plaintiffs in the
case, In Defense of Animals, seek to return nearly 2,000 WHBs to the
Twin Peaks Area and curtail the Bureau’s ability to gather and
dispose of the harmful WHBs across the West. The Court is
currently considering a motion to dismiss the lawsuit, which SCI
supports.