Comments on: Help stop legislation that’s harmful to animals

By: bhf

bhf — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 22:02:39 +0000

I take the middle road of the comments of the two previous writers. While it would be nice for cities to enact policy toward urban wildlife, in my experience, I have found that they generally don’t. Fish and Game have their jurisdiction and the cities and counties should have theirs. But, I think that a clear message should be dictated as to what each city and county needs to consider for its residing wildlife. Any policy should be reviewed by Fish and Game so that any redundancy can be eliminated. Then, the people of the cities and counties where they reside should insist on wildlife friendly approaches the perceived conflicts that we always hear about.

The only danger I see in any of this is that not enough people get involved at any level to make sure that enacted policies are wildlife friendly. Also, science is important, but empirical data is only one way to stimulate our minds. Emotion often tells us if we can trust the limited data that is presented to us.

By: Darryl

Darryl — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 15:45:01 +0000

Sorry – but I think everyone SHOULD support AB 815. The department of fish and game SHOULD be the only entity making regulations related to hunting and fishing. They do it based on science rather than emotion – and managing the states wildlife has to be done on a statewide basis to be effective.

By: MarjiB

MarjiB — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 21:25:54 +0000

Hey Gary, this is Marji from Animal Place. A big thank you for spreading the word about these two dangerous bills. I really hope people take a couple minutes to contact the Governor and encourage a veto!