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Big Game Hunting => Elk Hunting => Topic started by: littlemac on May 20, 2010, 09:56:57 AM

Title: Hunting group gets chance to challenge lawsuit (SCI)
Post by: littlemac on May 20, 2010, 09:56:57 AM: Hunting group gets chance to challenge lawsuit

Associated Press - May 13, 2010 12:14 PM ET

DENVER (AP) - A hunting group now has the chance to make its case for using sharpshooters to thin the elk herds in Rocky Mountain National Park.

The 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Wednesday that a lower court erred in not allowing the Safari Club to become a party in a lawsuit filed by an environmental group.

WildEarth Guardians filed its lawsuit in 2008 after park officials approved a plan to use federal and state employees as well as volunteers to kill elk in the park.

WildEarth Guardians said park officials didn't fully consider the release of wolves to reduce the herds before it decided on sharpshooters.

Park officials say overgrazing by the elk herd in and around the park has damaged habitat and threatened other species.

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Title: Re: Hunting group gets chance to challenge lawsuit (SCI)
Post by: BIGINNER on May 20, 2010, 10:03:39 AM: :bash: :bash: :bash: wow brainless people.... how much did it cost intaxpayer money to use "volinteers" and state employees to shoot the elk? how much would it have cost to introduce wolves? i'm guessing ALOT more. and also they gotta think about the impact the PROTECTED WOLVES will have in several years when they get overpopulated. i think those tree huggers need to be thinned out a little...... should we use wolves or sharpshooters for that? :chuckle:
Title: Re: Hunting group gets chance to challenge lawsuit (SCI)
Post by: madmack76 on May 20, 2010, 09:20:45 PM: there going to go for elk and screw every one wonder what the farmers will report that's messed up
Title: Re: Hunting group gets chance to challenge lawsuit (SCI)
Post by: Fastass350 on May 23, 2010, 05:26:15 PM: Quote from: BIGINNER on May 20, 2010, 10:03:39 AM
i think those tree huggers need to be thinned out a little...... should we use wolves or sharpshooters for that? :chuckle:

In those cases, both the wolf and the sharpshooters. The sharpshooters are to kill the wolves only after the wolves have taken care of the tree huggin varmints.