Urgent ACTION ALERT! Bobcats need our voice. We just found out the deadline to write your letter is tomorrow NOV 20th at 5pm. Urge California Fish and Game Commission to implement AB1213, Bobcat Protection Act Submit comments to [email protected] and put Bobcat Protection Act or AB1213, Item 14 in subject line, or fax to: (916) 653-5040. Comments addressed to Honorable Commissioner Sonke Mastrup. Please be lucid and respectful. TALKING POINTS-> Implementation of the Bobcat Protection Act is being slowed due to trapper’s objections that fees will increase in price. A key point of the bill mandated that the Fish and Game Commission was to conform to existing laws which requires the trapping program to be self-funded. Instead, the program continues to run at a deficit, benefiting trappers at the cost of the state (and taxpayer). Furthermore, the Commission will be discussing strategies for creating buffer zones, and protected areas. Your input could help increase the number of areas in which bobcats cannot be trapped for their pelts. -Remind the Commission that license and tag fees must be raised to pay for the trapping program under current law, and that most of the commercially trapped bobcats are taken by a very small number of individuals. -Let the Commission know that you would like to see bobcat trapping banned for anything other than research or rehabilitation. -Inform the Commission of the valuable role of bobcats in ecosystem balance, our tourism economy, and any of your personal reasons for supporting bobcat protection or for opposing the trapping of bobcats for their pelts. -Please support our fellow predator defenders with separate comments on the coyote killing contests. Put Prohibit Inducements on Hunting Contests, or Sections 465 and 472 title 14, or Item 5, Dec. 3 FGC
Posted on: Wed, 19 Nov 2014 22:40:08 +0000
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