STOP PREDATOR HUNTING SLAUGHTER CONTESTS!
Business in Northern California PROMOTONG COYOTE DERBIES. Id like to know why the CFG is Ok with this?
Adin Supply Company, an area general store that’s the lead organizer of the Coyote Drive with the Pit River Rod and Gun Club, has apparently gone so far as to let its domain name registration lapse : the website had formerly been the company’s main venue for distributing drive guidelines and registration forms. Instead, the organizers are attempting to spread the word of the hunt among hunters’ communities on Facebook and in other social media.
Participants in the Drive are bound by state hunting laws regulating how and when animals can be shot, which in the case of coyotes don’t amount to much. Anyone with a valid hunting license can pretty much shoot as many coyotes as they want at any time of year in California , provided they’re in an area where they’re allowed to discharge firearms. Coyotes are one of the least-protected wild animal species in California, and sympathetic write-ups of previous years’ Drives have made references to “eradicating coyotes from Northern California.”
via Modoc County Coyote-Killing Contest Being Kept Under Wraps | Mammals | Rewild | KCET.