ALERT: Please help ban dove-hunting in Wisconsin

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Bills will be introduced in Wisconsin in the near future to ban hunting of the

mourning dove, which is the official state symbol of peace in WI. Please write

to the WI governor, senators & representatives asking them to support a ban -

your letter could be crucial for the lives of several hundred thousand doves.

This is definitely an extremely uphill task - even harder than it was in MI,

because we need a majority of the legislators to support the bill. In MI, the

hunters were the ones sponsoring the bill (to overturn dove hunting).

 

Below is the full set of e-addresses:

 

wisgov,kevin.keane,

tony.jewell,Sen.Baumgart,

Sen.Breske,Sen.Burke,

Sen.Chvala,Sen.Clausing,

Sen.Cowles,Sen.Darling,

Sen.Decker,Sen.Drzewiecki,

Sen.Ellis,Sen.Erpenbach,

Sen.Farrow,Sen.Fitzgerald,

Sen.George,Sen.Grobschmidt,

Sen.Hansen,Sen.Harsdorf,

Sen.Huelsman,Sen.Jauch,

Sen.Lasee,Sen.Lazich,

Sen.Meyer,Sen.Moen,

Sen.Moore,Sen.Panzer,

Sen.Plache,Sen.Risser,

Sen.Robson,Sen.Roessler,

Sen.Schultz,Sen.Shibilski,

Sen.Welch,Sen.Wirch,

Sen.Zien,Rep.Ainsworth,

Rep.Albers,Rep.Balow,

Rep.Berceau,Rep.Bies,

Rep.Black,Rep.Bock,

Rep.Boyle,Rep.Carpenter,

Rep.Coggs,Rep.Colon,

Rep.Cullen,Rep.Duff,

Rep.Fitzgerald,Rep.Foti,

Rep.Freese,Rep.Friske,

Rep.Gard,Rep.Gronemus,

Rep.Grothman,Rep.Gunderson,

Rep.Gundrum,Rep.Hahn,

Rep.Hebl,Rep.Hoven,

Rep.Huber,Rep.Hubler,

Rep.Huebsch,Rep.Hundertmark,

Rep.Jensen,Rep.Jeskewitz,

Rep.Johnsrud,Rep.Kaufert,

Rep.Kedzie,Rep.Kestell,

Rep.Krawczyk,Rep.Kreibich,

Rep.Kreuser,Rep.Krug,

Rep.Krusick,Rep.Ladwig,

Rep.LaFave,Rep.Lasee,

Rep.Lassa,Rep.LehmanJ,

Rep.Lehman,Rep.Leibham,

Rep.Lippert,Rep.Loeffelholz,

Rep.McCormick,Rep.Meyer,

Rep.Meyerhofer,Rep.Miller,

Rep.Montgomery,Rep.MorrisTatum,

Rep.Musser,Rep.Nass,

Rep.Olsen,Rep.Ott,

Rep.Owens,Rep.Petrowski,

Rep.Pettis,Rep.Plouff,

Rep.Pocan,Rep.Powers,

Rep.Reynolds,Rep.Rhoades,

Rep.Richards,Rep.Riley,

Rep.Ryba,Rep.Schneider,

Rep.Schooff,Rep.Seratti,

Rep.Sherman,Rep.Shilling,

Rep.Sinicki,Rep.Skindrud,

Rep.Starzyk,Rep.Staskunas,

Rep.Steinbrink,Rep.Stone,

Rep.Suder,Rep.Sykora,

Rep.Townsend,Rep.Travis,

Rep.Turner,Rep.Underheim,

Rep.Urban,Rep.Vrakas,

Rep.Wade,Rep.Walker,

Rep.Ward,Rep.Wasserman,

Rep.Wieckert,Rep.Williams,

Rep.Wood,Rep.YoungL

 

 

SAMPLE LETTER

(** Please sign and add your WI address, if you have one **)

 

Please ban dove hunting in WI

 

Dear Senator / Representative,

 

It is a cruel irony that the mourning dove, which is the Wisconsin state

official symbol of peace has been allowed to hunt. I urge you to support

legislation that is currently being introduced to ban dove hunting. My vote to

you in any future election is totally incumbent on your commitment to peace, and

your stance on this issue will be a true litmus test of the same. Apart from

this, there are several strong and extremely compelling reasons to ban dove

hunting:

 

1. Statistics show that 20 to 30 % of the doves shot by hunters get

wounded and are left to die painful, excruciating deaths.

 

2. Doves damage neither property nor crops. In fact, they help farmers

by eating weed seeds on the ground.

 

3. Doves are primarily used for target practice which can easily be

done using clay targets.

 

4. Federally protected birds such as the American kestrel and the

sharp-shinned hawk are often mistaken for doves and will undoubtedly be

shot if a dove hunting season opens.

 

5. Dove hunting will contribute to the discharge of lead shot in the

environment. Toxic lead shot poses a risk to wildlife, especially to

waterfowl, who ingest the pellets while feeding.

 

6. Doves are recognized as a symbol of peace all over the world and

this makes it all the more inappropriate to take away their lives.

 

I look forward to hearing from you that peace, as also the symbol of peace, will

not be hunted away in WI.

 

 

Sincerely,

 

 

 

 

 

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