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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;text-indent:0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><b><i><span style="font-size:16pt">Legislative Alert~ Help Defeat HB 279!<span></span></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;text-indent:0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><b><i><span style="font-size:16pt"><span> </span>Bounties for
wolf trappers—NO!<span></span></span></i></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><i><span style="color:blue">Jennifer
Fielder’s Senate Fish and Game Committee just passed HB 279. It’s now up to
citizens to <b>inform all Montana Senators</b>
about the true costs of this unethical and destructive bill. <span></span></span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><b><span style="font-size:14pt">HB 279 would pay expenses for trappers who kill wolves.<span></span></span></b></p><br><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria">• <b>S</b>ets a precedent. If wolf trappers get all-expenses-paid outings,
why shouldn’t hunters expect payment for killing deer, elk, mountain lions,
etc.? <span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><span> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria">• <b>I</b>s based on a program in Idaho, where private money paid the
bounty, but now the state pays. Once the bill becomes law, private
organizations leave the stage. <b>Our state
tax dollars would subsidize trappers who kill wolves. <span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><b><br></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><b>• </b><b><span>Pays up to $1,000 for reimbursement. <span> </span></span></b><span>Just show receipts. This bill can cover a new camo outfit, a
couple of nights at a deluxe Montana resort, and the gas to get there.<span> </span>What’s wrong with that? It’s a great deal for
‘ethical’ trappers—and their friends, which can extend that $1,000 each quite
nicely.<b><span></span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><span> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria">• <span> </span><b>HB 279</b> <b>undermines disease control<i>.</i></b>
<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria">Wolves control disease like CWD. Wolves take sick and weak
game animals.<span> </span>Wolves keep game animals
on the move, which helps contain the spread of CWD. Wolves and other predators
clean the land of the prions that exist in carcasses. <span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria">Research is leading to the conclusion that humans will likely be
susceptible to CWD. <a href="https://www.jsonline.com/story/sports/columnists/paul-smith/2017/06/28/macaque-study-heightens-concerns-human-susceptibility-cwd/430046001/" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline">https://www.jsonline.com/story/sports/columnists/paul-smith/2017/06/28/macaque-study-heightens-concerns-human-susceptibility-cwd/430046001/</a><span class="gmail-MsoHyperlink" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none"><span></span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria">• <span></span><b>Weather, not wolves, accounts
for temporary decreased elk populations in certain areas. </b>In 1995, when wolves were reintroduced, Montana
had 95,000 elk . Today, 176,000 elk in
Montana. <span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><span> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria">• <b>Montana already has
liberal wolf-killing regulations</b>. Anyone can shoot wolves claiming threats
to them or their livestock on their property. Licensed hunters and trappers can
kill 5 wolves per person. <span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria">Increasing this with bounties harms healthy game animal
populations. The relentless tearing down of the essential social structure of
wolf packs only increases instability and leads to juvenile attacks on
livestock. A record 315 wolves were killed this season, 130 by trappers. <b>We
don’t need to kill more wolves.</b><span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><span> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria">• <b>Wolves restore
habitat</b> overgrazed and eroded by unchecked ungulate
populations. Yellowstone’s recovery proves wolves bring back
plant life, bring back beavers who create wetlands that bring back all wildlife where streams were badly eroded ditches.<br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><br><span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><b><span>Please ask your
senator and all senators to vote NO on HB 279, a future tax burden that is also
an ecologically detrimental and unethical anti-wolf bill. <span></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><b><span>Please write all
senators. You can bcc them and write the same letter to all.<span></span></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><b><span style="font-size:14pt">THANK YOU FOR SPEAKING OUT AGAINST HB 279! <span></span></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><span style="font-size:14pt">Many legislators don’t have
time to read bills and depend on the committee to tell them how to vote. <b>Jennifer Fielder</b> is chair of the Senate
Fish and Game Committee, which killed a bill to stop ‘yote whacking, a vicious
‘sport’ of running over coyotes, wolves, any animal in their way, with
snowmobiles and ATVs and then slamming the animals’ bodies against the machines
until they are dead. Even the Safari Club International came out against this
savage cruelty—but not Montana’s Senate Fish and Game Committee. <span> </span><span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><span style="font-size:14pt">It’s essential that we speak
out and let our elected officials know <b>we are watching, we care and we vote</b>.<span> </span><b><span> </span><span></span></b></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><b><span style="font-size:14pt">Thank you for your defense of wildlife in a last refuge, Montana,<span></span></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><b><i><span style="font-size:14pt">Your friends at Footloose Montana</span></i></b><i><span style="font-size:14pt"><span></span></span></i></p>
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