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<font color="#000000"><i><b><big>CALLING ALL COMMUNITY RIGHTS
NETWORK PEOPLE on the coast </big></b></i><i>- </i><i><big>We
need as many people as possible to attend, and/or submit a
statement to, the joint BOS-City Council meeting in Fort
Bragg's Town Hall on Tues, July 21, at 1:30 pm.</big></i><br>
<small><small><small><small><small><br>
</small></small></small></small></small>If we do not
protect the Rights of Nature, all of the work being done for
Community Rights will be useless. If you are not familiar with the
details surrounding the contract with USDA "Wildlife Services,"
now in its 10th year, I have attached several documents that
together, outline the issue.<br>
<small><small><small><small><br>
</small></small></small></small>We absolutely cannot allow
these killings to continue, as we are losing biodiversity
everywhere and a rate that is truly frightening. The California
Fish & Game Commission filed a ruling in December 2014 that
bans wildlife killing for"Prizes and Inducements." I feel this
ruling should be considered here since our county Ag Commissioner,
Chuck Morse (known in the contract as the "Cooperator) is
authorized to use taxpayer funds to pay USDA personnel $140,000
annually for the blatantly inhumane extermination of our wildlife,
while the Earth is in the throws of it's Sixth Mass Extinction.</font><br>
<br>
<i>Here are some excerpts from some of the attached documentation:</i><br>
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<span style="mso-spacerun:'yes'; font-size:12.0000pt;
font-family:'Calibri'; "><b><a
href="http://projectcoyote.org/newsreleases/news_ca_fish_game_commission_votes_to_ban_prizes_inducements.html"><i><big>Project
Coyote</big></i> is a North America coalition of wildlife
educators, scientists, predator friendly ranchers, and
community leaders promoting coexistence between people and
wildlife, and compassionate conservation<br>
through education, science and advocacy.</a><br>
</b></span><span style="mso-spacerun:'yes'; color:rgb(0,0,0);
font-size:12.0000pt; font-family:'Calibri'; "><small><small><small><small><br>
<small><small><small><small><small><br>
</small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></span><small><small><small><small><small><small><small><small><small><span
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font-size:12.0000pt; font-family:'Calibri'; "><o:p></o:p></span>
</small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small><i><b><big><big><font
face="Calibri"><big><big><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);
font-size: 10.5pt;"><big>Each year, Wildlife Services indiscriminately traps and kills millions of animals,
approximately 80,000 in California - on behalf of
commercial agriculture. In 2013 alone, Wildlife
Services killed 4 million wild animals. Since
2000, Wildlife Services has spent approximately 1
billion taxpayer dollars to kill 1 million coyotes<big>
</big>and other predators nationwide, despite
peer-reviewed research that shows reckless
slaughter of native predators causes broad
ecological destruction.</big></span></big></big></font></big></big></b></i><br>
<small><small><small><br>
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</font><small><small><small><small>
</small></small></small></small></small></small></small><span
style="mso-spacerun:'yes'; color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:12.0000pt;
font-family:'Calibri'; ">Last year, in response to a letter from the Animal Legal Defense Fund, Sonoma County’s Board of Supervisors
<br>
opted not to renew its contract with Wildlife Services. Nearly 15 years ago, Marin County replaced its Wildlife
<br>
Services contract with a nonlethal predator control program that brought a 62 percent decrease in predation at
<br>
one-third of the cost.</span><br>
<small><small><small><small><br>
</small></small></small></small><span
style="mso-spacerun:'yes'; font-size:12.0000pt;
font-family:'Calibri'; "><font face="Calibri">“As ranchers who know that livestock and wildlife can coexist, we feel it’s important to do what we can to help
<br>
end this unnecessary war on wildlife,” said Keli Hendricks, predator friendly rancher from Petaluma and advisory
<br>
board member of Project Coyote. “It angers us when these contests are promoted as a way to help ranchers
<br>
protect their livestock. The reality is, there is no noble purpose behind a killing contest.”</font></span><br>
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<big><i>Here is what NRDC says about this program...</i></big><small><small><small><span
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<small><small><small><small><br>
</small></small></small></small></span><small><small><small><small><span
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<p class="p17" style="margin-bottom:0pt; margin-top:0pt;
text-autospace:ideograph-numeric; text-autospace:ideograph-other;
text-align:left; vertical-align:; "><a
href="http://www.nrdc.org/wildlife/animals/wolves/predatorcontrol.asp"><big><span
style="mso-spacerun:'yes'; font-size:12.0000pt;
font-family:'Calibri'; "><span style="mso-spacerun:'yes';
font-weight:bold; font-size:12.0000pt;
font-family:'Calibri'; ">Predator Control: </span></span></big></a><span
style="mso-spacerun:'yes'; font-size:12.0000pt;
font-family:'Calibri'; ">The core purpose of Wildlife Services’ predator control activities is <b>to prevent commercial livestock losses from
</b></span><b><br>
</b><b><span style="mso-spacerun:'yes'; font-size:12.0000pt;
font-family:'Calibri'; "></span></b></p>
<span style="mso-spacerun:'yes'; font-size:12.0000pt;
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predation by wolves, coyotes, mountain lions, and other wild carnivores</b>. Working directly with commercial
<br>
operators and state and local governments, <b>Wildlife Services uses a combination of lethal control methods, like
</b><b><br>
</b><b>
trapping, aerial gunning, poisoning, and denning (killing young in their dens), and some non-lethal control
</b><b><br>
</b><b>
methods.</b></span><b><span style="mso-spacerun:'yes';
font-size:12.0000pt; font-family:'Calibri'; "> </span></b><b><span
style="mso-spacerun:'yes'; font-size:12.0000pt;
font-family:'Calibri'; ">But driven by narrow agricultural interests, these predator control activities often ignore the greater
<br>
public need for a healthy environment, fiscal responsibility, and safe public lands, raising some serious questions
<br>
about how the program is being administered.</span></b><span
style="mso-spacerun:'yes'; font-size:12.0000pt;
font-family:'Calibri'; "><br>
<small><small><small><br>
</small></small></small></span><small><small><small><span
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</span><span style="mso-spacerun:'yes'; font-size:12.0000pt;
font-family:'Calibri'; "><o:p></o:p></span>
</small></small></small>
<p class="p17" style="margin-bottom:0pt; margin-top:0pt; "><span
style="mso-spacerun:'yes'; font-weight:bold;
font-size:12.0000pt; font-family:'Calibri'; ">Should the focus be on killing predators?</span><span
style="mso-spacerun:'yes'; font-size:12.0000pt;
font-family:'Calibri'; "> <br>
The </span><b><span><a
href="http://usda.mannlib.cornell.edu/MannUsda/viewTaxonomy.do?taxonomyID=29"><span
class="15" style="mso-spacerun:'yes'; font-size:12.0000pt;
font-family:'Calibri'; ">USDA's own statistics</span></a></span></b><span
style="mso-spacerun:'yes'; font-size:12.0000pt;
font-family:'Calibri'; "> show that most livestock losses come from weather, disease, illness, and birthing
<br>
problems, not predation. <b>Wildlife Services continues to "preventatively" kill more than </b></span><b><span><a
href="http://www.aphis.usda.gov/wildlife_damage/prog_data/2009_prog_data/data_index_2009.shtml"><span
class="15" style="mso-spacerun:'yes'; font-size:12.0000pt;
font-family:'Calibri'; ">100,000 native <br>
carnivores each year</span></a></span></b><span
style="mso-spacerun:'yes'; font-size:12.0000pt;
font-family:'Calibri'; "><b>, even when the effectiveness of such killing is unproven or, worse, counterproductive.<br>
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<small><small><small><small><small><small><small><br>
</small></small></small></small></small></small></small><b><a
href="http://www.co.mendocino.ca.us/bos/meetings/MG31185/AS31227/AS31230/AS31233/AI31412/DO31475/1.PDF">Work
and Financial Plan between Mendocino County and USDA Animal
& Plant Health Inspection Service - Wildlife Services
(APHIS-WS)</a></b><br>
<br>
<b>OBJECTIVES/GOALS</b> <small><small><small><small><br>
</small></small></small></small>Wildlife Services' overall
goal is to maintain a <i><b>biologically-sound Integrated Wildlife
Damage Management </b></i>(IWDM) program to assist property
owners, businesses, private citizens, and government agencies in
resolving wildlife damage problems and<i><b> conduct control
activities</b></i>.<br>
<small><small><small><br>
</small></small></small><b><i>The scope of this program is
limited only by the financial resources allocated by the
cooperator and APHIS-WS</i></b>.<i> </i><i><b>Although
successful elimination of any specific threat is not guaranteed,
all reasonable efforts will be made to resolve or mitigate
human-wildlife conflicts within financial and regulatory
constraints.</b></i><br>
<br>
"<b>Control activities</b>" are described as follows:<small><small><small><small><br>
</small></small></small></small>Safely & professionally
utilize approved wildlife damage management tools/equipments<b>
including firearms, advanced optics, assorted snaring devices,
trailing hounds, ATVs, leg-hold traps, cage-type and other
specialized traps, deterrent methods/devices (including
pyrotechnics, EPA approved toxicants</b><b> (including euthanasia
drugs,) night vision equipment and electronic calling devices</b>.<br>
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style="mso-spacerun:'yes'; font-size:12.0000pt;
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please let your voice be heard</font></big>.<br>
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<font face="Calibri">Tammy<br>
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