Sportsmen in CA and across America must stand up and fight against these groups and politicians.

“Importance of COHA Reaches New Heightened Level

In a move that further validates California as the front line in the nationwide fight to protect the future of hunting, the California State Legislature has laid claim to the first ever Caucus formed solely to push an animal rights agenda. According to a press release issued by the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS), the new “Animal Protection Caucus” – co-chaired by Senator Dean Florez (D-Shafter), Senator Tony Strickland (R-Thousand Oaks), Assembly Member Cameron Smyth (R-Santa Clarita), and Assembly Member Pedro Nava (D-Santa Barbara) – will serve to highlight important issues affecting animals and to educate legislators and their staff on the need for “sensible” animal protection legislation.

This bold move by certain members of the California Legislature and the animal rights community clearly demonstrates their focus on California and their increased priority of passing legislation in our state that directly challenges your freedom to hunt.

“Although it may be unfathomable, hunters and other conservationists have just been served serious notice that California will now face even greater challenges to our outdoor traditions,” stated California Outdoor Heritage Alliance President, Bill Gaines.

California’s outdoorsmen and women simply have no choice but to ensure their voice is loud and united in the halls of the State Capitol by supporting the California Outdoor Heritage Alliance (COHA) and COHA’s Political Action Committee (COHA PAC). Do your part – unite with COHA and help meet this challenge by joining COHA at Join COHA. Support COHA PAC and enter to win great prizes by purchasing tickets for the COHA PAC raffle at COHA PAC. COHA PAC funds are only used to help elect pro-hunting candidates for statewide public office”

Here`s what the HSUS had to say about the new animal rights cacus. Wayne Pacelle (president of the HSUS) will be present at the CA state capital in Feb to kick off this new cacus click here

Please send your support to the COHA – outdoorheritage.org (California Outdoor Heritage Alliance) and voice your opinion in opposition to this new animal rights cacus and the people behind it:

Sen. Dean Florez, D-Shafter, Sen. Tony Strickland, R-Thousand Oaks, and Assembly members Cameron Smyth, R-Santa Clarita, and Pedro Nava, D-Santa Barbara, Jim Moran, D-Va., and Elton Gallegly, R-Calif.

We will have their contact information posted on this site soon.

Here is an email we sent to Utah Sen. Allen Christensen lending our full support.

Dear Sen. Allen Christensen, 

First we`d like to thank you for supporting sportsmen everywhere especially in Utah for standing up and recognizing the serious threat wolves are to our livestock and big game animals here in the west and soon to be Utah if we don`t take action.

 We are Hunters Against PETA, an organization formed in Utah early spring 2009 due to the threat of anti`s in America trying to take away our rights as hunters, sportsmen and Americans.

 I`m sure I speak for all members of Hunters Against PETA and sportsmen in America when I say that wolves are wiping out our elk herds in the upper western states namely Idaho, Montana and Wyoming, such as you have stated. They are a serious threat to the future of hunting in the west.

 Here`s what Montana State University had to say after a study they conducted in Yellowstone National Park regarding the serious wolf problem:

 “The decline in the Greater Yellowstone’s elk population since the reintroduction of wolves in 1995 has been greater than was originally predicted. In the three winters prior to the reintroduction of wolves, elk on Yellowstone’s northern range numbered roughly between 17,000 and 19,000. In the three winters prior to 2008, annual elk counts had declined to between 6,738 and 6,279.”

 The numbers speak for themselves.

 We at Hunters Against PETA want you to know that we will lend our full support to you in anyway we can to combat this issue as we feel it is a serious threat to our big game animals in the west. Any victory the anti`s get big or small gets them one step closer to their goal.

 We`ve also sent a copy of this email to John Hollenhorst at KSL.com letting them know of our support for you.

 Again thank you for your efforts in this cause and we look forward to working with you on this problem in the near future.

 Sincerely,

 Jason Fackrell

Founding Member of Hunters Against PETA

We applaud the Utah lawmakers who have decided not to allow wolves to enter Utah under any circumstances and we at Hunters Against PETA will lend our full support in any way we can to make sure we keep wolves from spreading to Utah!

“We don’t have wolves in Utah right now, supposedly, and we don’t want them here,” said Sen. Allen Christensen, R-North Ogden.

Christensen’s bill requires state wildlife workers to kill or capture any wild wolf that enters the state.

“They serve no real useful purpose, and my bill simply says ‘you’re not welcome here,’” Christensen said.

“We’re willing to spend private money to take it all the way to the supreme court,” Christensen said.

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