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H.R. 767, The Refuge Ecology Protection, Assistance, and Immediate Response Act
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Sherry Hallum
This bill is outrageous and horrific. It is almost a carte blanche invitation to hunters of every ilk to create mass slaughter of a chosen species of animals. I am ashamed of you all for trying to pass this bill. Not only a waste of valuable wildlife but a blantant waste of taxpayers money!
Have you people nothing better to do with your time but develope destructive legislation?
Robin Yager
Let's be careful in what we're doing here - according to whose definition of an invasive species? Currently feral and stray cats,the mustangs and wild burros are all listed as invasive species. I think it needs more work and discussion.
Betty Kelly
11-17-2007
I am strongly opposed to H.R. 767l. The deceiving name of Refuge Ecology Protection, Assistance and Immediate Response Act, may allow massive attacks/slaughter upon creatures that would be labeled “harmful non-native species” as determined by prejudicial special corporate interests.
Would this include the popular big horn sheep, a non-native North America species as well as millions unmanaged domestic livestock that roam Western public lands ranges? Yet, include the few remaining America’s wild horses who are scientifically proved to be a RE-introduced North American NATIVE species, but propagandized by western ranchers and politicians as exotic and non-native. Again, this proposal is only one of many special interest legislation by cattlemen’s association and domestic livestock corporations to pilfer America’s public lands as their own private lands and attack anything they perceived as harmful to their operations.
Terry Watt
So this bill must include removals of domestic cattle and sheep who do horrific damage to wild ecosystems? Obviously no one thinks things through in Washington before voting on bills, we already know they don't read more than the brief summaries.
What we need is a bill titled:
The Stupid Bill Protection Act to keep stupid, deceptive, and dangerous bills from being introduced and voted on in the first place.
It's amazing how special interest groups can push through all of the harmful bills, YET year after year they can't manage to vote on the American Horse Slaughter Protection Act that's supported by the American people, a large number of House members and a growing number in the Senate. I guess the American People's Pockets just aren't deep enough to get good bills passed.
Your security code on this page is ridiculous. Who can read text over text in two directions??
Trent Wright
My applause to this bill, finally, some representives stood up to against free roaming and feral cats that upset the balance in nature! Security code is fine, those who can't read, don't understand.
Thanks!
allen jensen
finally congress is addressing (hr767) the damages to our ecology by feral and invasive species- zebra mussels, feral cats,hogs,mustangs and burros,and whatever else there may be- no longer can this country support the destructiveness of these invaders on our sensitive environment. you liberals living sheltered lives confined safely within the confines of concrete jungles have no clue as to what is really going on in the countryside- what you see in the national parks and zoos is not indicative of the realities of the environment.
Kassie
What Congress is creating is a loophole so any species deemed to be "invasive" by federal, state and local government can be (in the their own words) "iradicated". Wait - doesn't that mean that humans should be eradicated?? Cause we are certainly invasive, so much so that we are developing much of the land and wildlife areas that I'm sure some legislaters think they are protecting through their support of this bill. I wonder who is more damaging to the environment - the animals or the people?????? But instead of taking responsibility for our actions that have severely reduced wildlife areas, let's "eradicate" animals. Yes - that's the answer.