Oregon Update
Posted: Wed Aug 03, 2016 1:16 pm
I want to take a few minutes of your time to give you an update with our battles in Oregon.
First I want to apologize to those who tried unsuccessfully to contact me during the month of July. I was in a remote location with little or no cell service.
We recently prevailed with ODFW over Division 44.
This was the stupidest thing to date I have ever heard of! ODFW partnered with several organizations including the HSUS and Audubon Society along with OSP, Portland Exotic pet industry, department of agriculture, district and wildlife diversity staff from ODFW along with the biggest disappointment for Oregonian sport hunters called the OHA or Oregon Hunters Association, who knowingly allowed this to move forward with attendance from it's lobby knowing we sport hound hunters weren't invited to participate in the process but freely engaged with the HSUS?
I failed in my attempt to retain the Bond Butte ponds and my case against ODFW with the Oregon State Department of Justice was dropped for reasons I could not beat one branch of State Government defending another branch of State Government. ODFW added the yellow breasted chat bird to it's reasons for denying our club usage permit and felt it would be hard to prove the bird isn't in distress as claimed by ODFW. I feel strongly the ponds belong to ODFW making them property of we the people of the State of Oregon. The same applies to what's happening with the locking of our access to BLM- State- O&C Grounds as an example.
What I find the most alarming in this whole matter was what we discovered while attending a public hearing at ODFW in the final arguments pertaining to Division 44. While in the lobby, I and our OUSDA President were engaged in a conversation with Administrator Anglin when the question was directed at Anglin, point blank about ODFW's position pertaining to support for an IDAHO style Constitutional amendment for the right to hunt, fish and trap. Anglin was quick to state for the record, ODFW opposes any such amendment and looking to keep things status quo in Oregon. Translation, forget the return of hounds for both black bear and cougar or better yet how this has played out here in Oregon, Government hounds replaced sport hunter hounds for cougar management, this I'm sure is based on the fact ODFW currently sells over 44,000 OTC tags vs. the less than 600 prior to the hound ban, it's not about management, it's all about $$$$$$.
The baited ankle catch snare used by contractors and USDA has picked up where the bear hound was banned in 1994. The ability to sex a bear and release it unharmed was lost to the killing and burial of 100% of the first year cubs and most of the second year as well, along with all the sows and boars caught with sport hunters and tax paying citizens subsidizing these programs, including the meat processing.
It's crystal clear, the Oregon State legislature has said it time and time again, we hold the ability to grant ODFW whatever you request for we are politicians and you (ODFW) represent the best science to support your request, just say the word....That word never comes from ODFW who by the way hired an ex advisor to the liberal ex Governor John Kitzhaber to be it's political lobby for ODFW by the name of Brett Brownscomb. Pretty hard to reinstate hound hunting here in Oregon or even get this out to the voters when we are controlled by a majority of liberal democrats in Salem and liberal democrats within ODFW who enjoy keeping company with the HSUS over those who pay the bills, we the sport hunters of the State of Oregon!
Folks, in conclusion, just to add one last thing for the record, if you just read this, own hounds in Oregon and vote democrat? You are part of the problem and have never spent as much as one minute fighting in Salem for your hunting rights or you would understand this party is the enemy to our way of life!
Mike
First I want to apologize to those who tried unsuccessfully to contact me during the month of July. I was in a remote location with little or no cell service.
We recently prevailed with ODFW over Division 44.
This was the stupidest thing to date I have ever heard of! ODFW partnered with several organizations including the HSUS and Audubon Society along with OSP, Portland Exotic pet industry, department of agriculture, district and wildlife diversity staff from ODFW along with the biggest disappointment for Oregonian sport hunters called the OHA or Oregon Hunters Association, who knowingly allowed this to move forward with attendance from it's lobby knowing we sport hound hunters weren't invited to participate in the process but freely engaged with the HSUS?
I failed in my attempt to retain the Bond Butte ponds and my case against ODFW with the Oregon State Department of Justice was dropped for reasons I could not beat one branch of State Government defending another branch of State Government. ODFW added the yellow breasted chat bird to it's reasons for denying our club usage permit and felt it would be hard to prove the bird isn't in distress as claimed by ODFW. I feel strongly the ponds belong to ODFW making them property of we the people of the State of Oregon. The same applies to what's happening with the locking of our access to BLM- State- O&C Grounds as an example.
What I find the most alarming in this whole matter was what we discovered while attending a public hearing at ODFW in the final arguments pertaining to Division 44. While in the lobby, I and our OUSDA President were engaged in a conversation with Administrator Anglin when the question was directed at Anglin, point blank about ODFW's position pertaining to support for an IDAHO style Constitutional amendment for the right to hunt, fish and trap. Anglin was quick to state for the record, ODFW opposes any such amendment and looking to keep things status quo in Oregon. Translation, forget the return of hounds for both black bear and cougar or better yet how this has played out here in Oregon, Government hounds replaced sport hunter hounds for cougar management, this I'm sure is based on the fact ODFW currently sells over 44,000 OTC tags vs. the less than 600 prior to the hound ban, it's not about management, it's all about $$$$$$.
The baited ankle catch snare used by contractors and USDA has picked up where the bear hound was banned in 1994. The ability to sex a bear and release it unharmed was lost to the killing and burial of 100% of the first year cubs and most of the second year as well, along with all the sows and boars caught with sport hunters and tax paying citizens subsidizing these programs, including the meat processing.
It's crystal clear, the Oregon State legislature has said it time and time again, we hold the ability to grant ODFW whatever you request for we are politicians and you (ODFW) represent the best science to support your request, just say the word....That word never comes from ODFW who by the way hired an ex advisor to the liberal ex Governor John Kitzhaber to be it's political lobby for ODFW by the name of Brett Brownscomb. Pretty hard to reinstate hound hunting here in Oregon or even get this out to the voters when we are controlled by a majority of liberal democrats in Salem and liberal democrats within ODFW who enjoy keeping company with the HSUS over those who pay the bills, we the sport hunters of the State of Oregon!
Folks, in conclusion, just to add one last thing for the record, if you just read this, own hounds in Oregon and vote democrat? You are part of the problem and have never spent as much as one minute fighting in Salem for your hunting rights or you would understand this party is the enemy to our way of life!
Mike