SCI Seeking Predator Hunters from AZ and NM

Fursniper

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Please help the Safari Club International with litigation to protect coyote hunting in AZ and NM.

Quote:SCI’s Litigation attorneys are looking for Arizona and New Mexico coyote hunters. SCI’s Litigation Department will soon attempt to join litigation that could affect coyote hunting in Arizona and New Mexico – particularly in areas occupied by Mexican wolves (south and central Arizona and New Mexico).

Please contact us if you hunt coyotes in these areas, have concrete plans to do so in the future and would be willing to work with SCI attorneys to provide a sworn statement to assist SCI in court. Contact Anna Seidman, Director of Litigation at aseidman@safariclub.org


https://firstforhunters.wordpress.com/2015/08/25/sci-seeks-az-and-nm-coyote-hunters/
 
I really hope some of you AZ and NM guys step up for this. It would be an interesting experience and we all know it is better to get ahead of these things instead of just sitting around then trying to play catch up!
 
I got a Phishing Scam warning when I clicked on to the link. When I ignored the warning it took me back to the SCI page and not to the attorneys email address. Kinda Phishy!



Kevin
 
It's not phishing, its a copy the link issue..

I did respond to the request since i do hunt in the area's that they are talking about. It's so aggrivating since that spot didn't have wolves, they tried and had to keep trying and using money from hunters to plant an animal that wasn't there, that will compete with hunters and reduce the numbers in some of the best places to hunt.

The deer and elk in that area are some of the most dense. The fix is in and the information has leaked out that the whole reason for the planting is to reduce other animal numbers to the point of where they have stop the hunting. Who exactly does this help? not the turkey, deer, or elk.. Not to mention over the past 7 years there are fewer and fewer coyotes in the area that used to have lots. I get the wolf howls out there and have called them in Once.. But other than that no coyotes, bobcat, or fox. In area's that were really plentiful.

Why these idiots don't understand that bringing in a new apex predator to an area will have impacts on the many life species in that area, what makes the wolf so great and everything else living in a ballance so worthless?

If you copy the link you have to erase the htttp/ and the stuff after the .org too.
 
Originally Posted By: 5194I got a Phishing Scam warning when I clicked on to the link. When I ignored the warning it took me back to the SCI page and not to the attorneys email address. Kinda Phishy!

Kevin
The link works fine on my end and opens the SCI website where the info came from. I sent an e-mail to the address provided for Anna Seidman and requested to participate. I have not experienced any problems.
 
GET INVOLVED NOW GUYS : i remember not to long ago California predator hunters were involved in similar crap
 
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Originally Posted By: Pa. MickGET INVOLVED NOW GUYS : i remember not to long ago California predator hunters were involved in similar crap

+1

Other states will follow suit.
 
I got a response back already. I originally thought this was Sierra Club which made no sense. I wasn't aware of SCI before, looks like I need to join.
 
Here is a media article explaining some of the history behind this issue. In a nutshell, WildEarth Guardians and the NM Wilderness Alliance would like to see the "McKittrick Policy" not be applied to someone who accidentally kills a Mexican Wolf so they can avoid prosecution. They want all hunters prosecuted regardless of their intent, even if they self report the accident. These groups believe it is impossible to mistake a wolf for a coyote, coyote hunters intentionally kill wolves, and purposely violate the Endangered Species Act.

GET INVOLVED!!!!

Quote:Groups Fight Pass Given to Rare Species Killers

By JAMIE ROSS

TUCSON (CN) - An unpublished, illegal federal policy prevents prosecution of people who kill endangered species unless the government can prove the people knew what species they were killing, environmentalists claim in court.

WildEarth Guardians and the New Mexico Wilderness Alliance sued the U.S. Department of Justice, in Federal Court. They claim the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's ability to enforce the Endangered Species Act's "prohibition on illegal killing of Mexican gray wolves - and other ESA-listed species - through criminal penalties has been hindered by a 1998 policy of the United States Department of Justice ('DOJ') which DOJ calls the 'McKittrick Policy.'"

The Justice Department "will not charge or prosecute individuals for the illegal killing of ESA-listed species unless the government can prove that the defendant knew the biological identity of the animal he was killing at the time he killed it," the complaint states.

This policy is "so extreme that it amounts to a conscious and express abdication of DOJ's statutory responsibility to prosecute criminal violations of the ESA as general intent crimes," the groups claim.

The policy stems from the prosecution of Chad McKittrick, who was sentenced to 6 months for killing a gray wolf in Montana. McKittrick testified at trial that "he thought that the animal he killed was a rabid dog, and offered this 'mistaken identity' argument as a defense to the ESA illegal take count," the complaint states.

McKittrick appealed his conviction to the 9th Circuit, which rejected his "argument that establishing a criminal violation of the ESA arising from illegal take requires proof that the defendant knew the biological identity of the species he killed at the time he killed it," according to the complaint.

McKittrick appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court.

The U.S. Solicitor General disagreed with the 9th Circuit and "submitted a responsive brief to the Supreme Court in which he stated that the 9th Circuit had misapplied the law regarding the degree of intent required to establish a criminal violation of ESA Section 9 arising from illegal take," according to the complaint. "The Solicitor's response to the certiorari petition also stated that DOJ would no longer utilize a jury instruction which instructed the jury that the government need not prove that the defendant knew the biological identity of an animal that he killed in order to establish criminal liability under the ESA."

The environmental groups claim that "since the Mexican gray wolf reintroduction program began in 1998, the FWS has catalogued 48 wolves that have been the victims of illegal killings," accounting for more than half of the deaths of the reintroduced wolfs. The policy "has the practical effect of removing the threat of criminal prosecution for would-be wolf killers who are opposed to the reintroduction of the Mexican gray wolf," the complaint states. Only two of the 48 shootings resulted in a prosecution under the Endangered Species Act.

The environmentalists claim the federal government failed to publish the policy "in the Federal Register or taken any proactive effort to disclose the Policy to the public as required by the Freedom of Information Act." The policy also violates the Administrative Procedures Act, by limiting "the government's efforts to conserve and protect listed species from extinction," the groups claim.

WildEarth Guardians and New Mexico Wilderness Alliance seek an order stopping the Justice Department from applying the McKittrick Policy, and an order requiring the agency to inform the public of the policy.

The groups are represented by Steven Sugarman of Cerrillos, N.M., and Judy Calman of Albuquerque.

http://www.courthousenews.com/2013/06/03/58136.htm


 
I got the email today asking for my experiences and what impacts i have seen or could be affected by.

I completed it and sent it back. Really simple, short doc. Easy to fill out and respond too.

If you notified them you hunt in the area, check your inbox for the form.
 
Great post guys, thanks for the heads up. SnowmanMo and the guys at Predator Technology Group have submitted our information to SCI.

We are willing to duke it out with the eco-terrorists.
 
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