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Community => Advocacy, Agencies, Access => Topic started by: cohoho on August 19, 2007, 10:19:18 PM

Title: President Bush Issues Exec Order supporting Hunting and Conservation
Post by: cohoho on August 19, 2007, 10:19:18 PM: President Bush Issues Executive Order Supporting Hunting and Conservation

On August 16, 2007, President George W. Bush signed an important Executive Order promoting the importance of hunting and wildlife conservation and requiring Federal agencies to expand and enhance "hunting opportunities and the management of game species and their habitat." The E.O. directs Federal agencies to consider the impact of Federal activities on hunting and to work with State and Tribal governments, and non-governmental organizations, to advance hunting opportunities and game animal conservation. The E.O. also requires the Federal agencies to "respect private property rights and State management authority over wildlife resources." The E.O. is available at http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/08/20070817.html .
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Post by: robb92 on August 19, 2007, 11:24:07 PM: Thats good to hear and also a good read. thanks for posting the info.
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Post by: GoldTip on August 20, 2007, 07:37:27 AM: Very cool, thanks for the link!
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Post by: Dman on August 24, 2007, 08:56:41 PM: A little background on why this came about. The Administration had been under a lot of criticism for it's land dumping and raping policies by the NRA, who had recently publicly distanced themselves from Bush. This is meant (I believe) as a way to get back in good graces. Definitely not bad for hunter's, but once again, there's political motivation behind it.....
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Post by: Hermit on August 25, 2007, 04:10:59 PM: The moron can't read or spell...... Probably thought it said "hurting". Surprised he hasn't given all the wildlife to the Chinese,
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Post by: Dman on August 26, 2007, 06:52:27 PM: :chuckle: :chuckle: :chuckle: :chuckle:
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Post by: Jerbear on August 26, 2007, 09:19:30 PM: I would think that a site sponser would have more class than to attack the President the way he did. I am sure we would have been better off with John Kerry, who crawled on his belly across the swamps with his trusty shotgun, while hunting deer.
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Post by: Dman on August 27, 2007, 01:05:55 PM: Like it or not, "W" is the worst president ever and people are going to voice their opinion on that! Particularly given someone else is going to have to "try" to clean up the mess he's made.... In fact, Hermit is right, I've actually participated in studies on "W's" environmental/ wildlife policies in the past for some classes and this is absolutely the first time I've ever seen him make an attempt to preserve anything with that regard, if you followed more closely the legislation that has passed over the last few years, you'd realize he's sold hundred's of thousand's of acre's of public hunting lands and cut staff budget's so much that many exising hunting refuge's have been closed, particularly in the Midwest.
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Post by: Ray on August 27, 2007, 05:27:08 PM: As bad as Bush might seem I still think he was way better than the other options.
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Post by: WDFW-SUX on August 27, 2007, 07:25:00 PM: When all is said and done 50 years from now he will be viewed as one of the 10 best in our history.
Title: Re: President Bush Issues Exec Order supporting Hunting and Conservation
Post by: Dman on August 28, 2007, 08:41:51 AM: Quote from: WDFW-sux on August 27, 2007, 07:25:00 PM
When all is said and done 50 years from now he will be viewed as one of the 10 best in our history.

Please elaborate on how?? With specific regard to wildlife and land's conservation??? We can only speculate on how Kerry would have done, no one knows for sure. Yes Kerry made a bonehead comment, I truly believe, as a distinguished veteran he tripped over his word's. Action's speak louder than word's...
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Post by: WDFW-SUX on August 28, 2007, 10:04:00 AM: 1 Abraham Lincoln Civil War
2 Thomas Jefferson Too much to list
3 George Washington Defeated the English in Revolutionary war
4 Franklin D. Roosevelt New deal/WWII
5 Theodore Roosevelt Americas first Conservationist
6 Woodrow Wilson WW-I
7 Harry S. Truman Finished WWII and Marshall Plan rebuild Europe
8 John F. Kennedy Space, Cuban Missile crisis, civil rights.
9 Dwight D. Eisenhower Started space program commanded Allies in Europe
10 George W. Bush Democracy to Middle east War on terror

I get a little sick of people saying that GW is the worst president in the history of this country when the facts clearly don't support that. If you look at the history of the united states the so called abuses to civil liberties that Bush is accused of are trivial compared to some of his predecessors. Lincoln suspend habeas corpus, Roosevelt en-turned the Japanese and Truman dropped the atomic bomb on the Japan. What has Bush done that is even in the ball park of those three? The people who think that Bush stole the 2000 election will never be satisfied by anything he does and are a vocal portion of society. Abraham lincoln was routinely compared to an ape and said to be retarded in paper of the period sound familiar?

I personally think our country has way way bigger problems than environmental legislation like foreign debt, China, Social security, and the entitlement society that exists, and to say that Bush is Anti environment is just plain false.

http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/070820/20070820005896.html?.v=1

http://www.boone-crockett.org/conservation/conservation_wcp.asp?area=conservation

http://www.doi.gov/news/030530a.htm

http://www.epa.gov/water/speeches/022604tm.html
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Post by: Dman on August 28, 2007, 11:41:19 AM: So we take the administration's own word they are making "progress"? What would you say if WDFW made the same statement? Your in my ballpark now, I deal with these issues daily.
You might find interesting:

http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/feb2007/2007-02-05-02.asp

note "In total, the president's budget cuts appropriated funding for natural resources and the environment by nearly $1.5 billion, a 4.8 percent cut."

http://www.wilderness.org/Library/Documents/BushRecord.cfm
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Post by: jackelope on August 28, 2007, 12:06:06 PM: Quote
Your in my ballpark now, I deal with these issues daily.

which issues?
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Post by: Dman on August 28, 2007, 12:24:12 PM: Environmental.

No comment on the subject?
Title: Re: President Bush Issues Exec Order supporting Hunting and Conservation
Post by: jackelope on August 28, 2007, 12:28:39 PM: nope...no need for comment.
i wuld just echo what wdfw and huntwa said.
we got the better of the 2 options.