Here is an email we received from Toby.
Toby is always on the front lines trying to protect our hunting rights and animals from extinction.
Thanks Toby…from all of us here at Hunters Against PETA
“David, Rodney & Steve;
I want to let you know that I truly enjoyed the opportunity to sit down and visit with the three of you in a very warm and friendly atmosphere today. It took only a couple of minutes to realize that we are all on the same page… and share the same concerns for the future of hunting.
I must admit, that when I left home and drove the two or so miles to your offices, my greatest fear was that you would tell me how far off base I am, and that I needed to get in touch with reality. Instead, I sat down and met with three other individual hunters who are as genuinely in tune to the hurdles that hunting faces as we head into the future – of which the wolf issue is only a part.
The anti-hunting environmental organizations are truly now our biggest threat. And as we discussed, it is imperative that all sportsmen based conservation organizations form a tight partnership to present a unified force to go face-to-face with these phony wildlife conservation facades. And to fully support these efforts will take an extremely strong participation by the entire shooting and hunting industry.
It’s no longer business as usual, we have some real battles ahead, and we need to build a collective force that has the might, and will, to win.
Without that unification, all who love and cherish hunting are doomed.
Some times, I feel my methods are too strong and a bit misdirected, but my heart is always where it should be. Hard times call for hard measures, and we are experiencing some of the hardest times sport hunting has ever had to endure. I, for one, will never give up the fight – and after meeting with you three, I feel that you and the RMEF will be right there on the front lines with me.
Environmental organizations such as the Defenders of Wildlife and the Center for Biological Diversity are now using the reintroduction of the gray wolf to weaken our forces and our will. I feel we must meet this challenge head on – in the the courts and in the field, to closely manage this pestilence which is now destroying our big game resources and the ability of ranchers to profitably help feed this nation.
In this time of economic crash, we need to eliminate idiotic federal programs that waste hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars to destroy common sense rural lifestyles that took a hundred or more years to become ingrained within the Northern Rockies.
Likewise, we need to contain the damage wolves are doing to wildlife resources and the economy of hunting communities before the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service destroys that same lifestyle and rich wildlife heritage in other regions of the country.
Following is an e-mail I received following our meeting today. It is from hunter, rancher and custom knife maker Rick Dunkerley, of Lincoln, MT.
This is the kind of wildlife destruction we must reverse, and the lifestyle we need to help Northern Rocky Mountain residents enjoy once again.
Again, thanks for a great meeting. I look forward to working closely with you as we face the challenges ahead.
Toby Bridges
LOBO WATCH
100 Parker Court
Missoula, MT 59801
406 542-9751
http://www.lobowatch.com/
cc: Shooting & Hunting Industry”
