We have a Great Movement across the State of Florida. Multiple Petitions to take to the FWC with one that has over 150,000 Signatures. All Against the Florida Black Bear Hunt! We have Counties and Towns across Florida speaking to the FWC, asking for a Ban of the Hunt with a Resolutions Signed in their area. We will go to the FWC on June 22-23rd in Apalachicola area, with or without you Collier County. Are you so in Love with Rick Scott and Leisa Priddy that you will allow another Bear Hunt or is it that you are in total fear of them? Or.. maybe, and I hope it to be, you just haven’t been approached to help.
Tomorrow is the last 1 of 2 Commission Meetings left before the FWC meets and hands down a new possible execution order of our Bears. They state there will be an annual Hunt! How many Slaughtered Bears this time will depend on you. Are the Collier Bears worth anything to you? We are working with as many Counties as we can. But few Collier Residents have stood up to offer help to the Bears.
If you are willing to speak to the Collier County Commission let me know. There are People that will help. But they have no reason to listen to People that are not Residents of their County. It is your Call. Let me know how many Collier Residents will stand up for the Bears. And we will be there with you. But won’t go without Collier Support.
There are Articles about Rick Scott and the Republican Party doing Campaign Fund Raising with Animal Canned Hunts in SouthTexas. The Governor appoints the FWC Commission that brought the assault and kill of 300 Bears on October 24 and 25th 2015. A two day Massacre! There were Cubs killed. There were Bears still showing Corn in their mouths, which would indicate Baiting. It is Reported that the FWC is mostly made up of Land Developers, Hunters and Ranchers. Leisa Priddy, a FWC Commission Member has reportedly not only Voted for the Hunt but she and another Commissioner Bought their own Bear Hunting Permit. This is conflict of Interest. Our Bears had no chance. Leisa Priddy is reportedly one of the land owners petitioning the US Fish and Wildlife with a Incidental Kill of our Endangered Panther. So she can build her Big City. People in Political office know all the angles to get what they want.
We have a choice. October will come. Watch the Bear Slaughtered again. Or help us get a Collier County Resolution asking for a Ban of Bear Hunts in Collier County. Will you Help?
Municipalities that have passed Bear Hunt Ban Resolutions as of April 19, 2016:
COUNTIES: Miami -Dade population 2,617,000+ Volusia population 500,800
CITIES:Safety Harbor pop.17,139+ Biscayne Park pop. 3,000+ Palmetto Bay pop. 25,000 South Miami pop 12,000 +Pinecrest pop. 19,000+ Cutler Bay pop. 43,000+ Clermont pop 30,000+ Davie pop. 97,000 Deltona pop. 86,890 Cape Coral pop. 166,000+ Eustis pop. 19,214 Fort Myers pop. 68, 190+
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Total of population represented: 3,704,233
(Sarasota passed a no hunting resolution previously 390,500 = 4, 094,733)
There are Counties almost to final Signing Stages of Resolutions, Alachua, Seminole and more. We are on the Agenda in Hillsborough and Brevard. Pinellas has signed a Proclamation.
A Resolution is simply a Formal Statement Expressed on behalf of Collier County Citizens. Not a Law. The Resolution simply asks that the alternative measures by the FWC be applied. Before any Bear Hunt is conducted. And that the Bear Hunt of 2015 was based on outdated facts. Unless the Ordinances are in place reducing the Human created conflict of Trash and securing domestic Animals running loose. It is unfair to consider the Bears a Nuisance. There is much Public Education available. This can reduce Bear Conflicts. Volusia is reporting a 95% reduction in Bear complaints since adopting an Ordinance.
South Miami- Resolution Link
ile:///Users/kayhaering/Downloads/City%20of%20South%20Miami%20Resolution-2.pdf
Petitions are circulating with Signatures from 36 Countries asking for a Ban on the Florida Black Bear Hunt.
Call your Collier County Commission- Tell them you want a Resolution to Ban Bear Hunting in Collier. That it is the Will of Collier Residents and that you Vote. Let me know if there is interest in going to your Commissioner Meeting tomorrow. Send me a email- Brzysunset@aol.com. I will show you what needs to be said and will bring helpers, if Collier wants to Represent their Black Bears.
Collier Commission Contacts- Commissioner Tim Nance says they are working on an Ordinance for Reducing Conflicts. Tell him A Resolution does not interfere with an Ordinance. A Resolution says- the County wishes to look at alternative ways to reduce conflicts besides a Hunt. Mr. Nance says bringing up a Resolution in your County would go up in Flames. You are the Voters and the Residents of Collier County. You can decide, by your Votes what the Commission will do in your County.
http://www.colliergov.net/your-government/divisions-a-e/board-of-county-commissioners
A Bumper sticker read- Everyone Can-But Won’t. I Can- And Will!
Kay Haering