The USSA’s Dirty Dozen

by U.S. Sportsman Alliance • January 11, 2012 • 3 comments

Each year, the U.S. Sportsmen’s Alliance — a direct lobbying and grassroots coalition that supports and protects the rights of hunters, trappers, anglers, and scientific wildlife management professionals — provides its Dirty Dozen list, a compilation of groups that are working against your opportunities to hunt, trap, fish and enjoy the outdoors. Here is their list for 2012…

 

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HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE UNITED STATES

HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE UNITED STATES

Humane Society of the United States or HSUS--needs no commentary or introduction to hunters and trappers everywhere, but has been in the news and advertisements recently for sharing only one percent with animal shelters of the $187,515,301.00 the group raked in during 2010.

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3 Responses

  1. g ash

    maybe with modern tec we can create hell for those who needs it

    On January 23, 2012 at 5:24 pm • Reply
  2. Mike

    I found your list of the 12 worst organizations for hunters to be quite reactive. It makes you look paranoid, especially when, at the end, you ask for a donation. It looks like you are just bashing organizations and scaring people so they will give you money…

    1) I am FOR species diversity. Not only is it better for the planet, it is better for hunting and fishing. You are just shooting yourself in the foot, (no pun intended), to campaign against species diversity. The ecosystem is more than deer and elk for hunters to kill. The endangered species act does not, directly, affect your ability to hunt ungulates. So, exactly what is the problem with ESA?

    2) I know of no significant depredation of deer or elk by gray wolves. Your reaction to them is completely unsupported by an scientific study. The game animals are not there for human’s amusement. They are part of the natural ecosystem and so are the wolves.

    Where I live there are two packs of gray wolves. I spend a lot of time in the mountains in the summer. I have never seen a wolf kill. I have never heard of a wolf killing a domestic animal. It is completely improbable that a gray wolf would ever attack a human being, no matter what the circumstances. In all the years the wolves have lived in the Blackfoot River watershed, I have never seen or heard a wolf. That includes the Scapegoat Wilderness.

    Wolves were here before we were. Great used to it. Deal with it. This ‘list’ just makes you look like you are whining because you can’t have your own way.

    3) Trapping is not a method of harvesting food. It is a method of commercially exploiting animals for their fur. You may think it is acceptable for someone to place traps along commonly traveled trails that catch and kill domestic animals, as well as the intended animals, in a horrifically inhumane way. It isn’t. Trapping has a bad rap, because it deserves a bad rap. There is no need for the commercial exploitation of wildlife to profit a very few. Trapping is not a wildlife management practice. We wouldn’t condone a return to market hunting waterfowl, would we? So, why do we condone trappers torture of animals for their fur?

    4) I have been in New Jersey during their bear hunt. Way more hunters got hurt, than bears got shot. I agree that bears are a problem in NJ, ONLY because of habitat encroachment. Left to their own devices, bears are not a nuisance. Some housewife in Camden who freaks when a bear walks through her yard is not enough reason to send amateurs out into the forest to torture bears. NJ ‘hunters’ are a caricature of hunting.

    The bears in New Jersey should be hunted by professionals. That way they will be killed humanely. The State of NJ does this with deer in the Meadowlands. Unfortunately, there really is no other way to control the bears in NJ. When there is millions of dollars to be made, you aren’t going to get the citizens of NJ to stop encroaching on their habitat.

    On January 23, 2012 at 7:14 pm • Reply
  3. Mike

    5) The Humane Society, nationally, does not support shelters. No one said they did. They shouldn’t start supporting shelters just because you picked this dysphemistic concept to paint them as not caring about animals shelters. I don’t support their position on hunting. I don’t need to create facts that have nothing to do with hunting, to smear them.

    6) Your statement that the Defenders of Wildlife advocate the re-introduction of wolves into Alaska is preposterous. Wolves have never been at risk in Alaska. I think this is fear mongering. Your support of people who shoot wolves out of aircraft shows how detached you are from the hunters you think your represent. No sportsman hunts animals from an aircraft. Talk about completely unsporting behavior. (If I was looking for someone to support my position, it certainly wouldn’t be a politically unstable Sarah Palin.)

    7) What does PETAs advocating vegan diets have to do with hunting? I mean, really, can’t you come up with something that actually deals with their position on hunting?
    8) The ASPCA is against management techniques that cause avoidable suffering and distress. And you are for management techniques that cause avoidable suffering and distress? No hunter wants to cause suffering to an animal.

    9) The Animal Legal Defense Fund’s position on civil rights for animals is ridiculous. Everyone knows this. Well, maybe not you.

    Every fall, out of state hunters arrive in their shiny new pickup trucks, with their huge RVs, ATVs they have never ridden and firearms they bought two days before they left for Montana and have never fired.

    They go out into the mountains expecting the game to parade in front of them to be shot. When they don’t ‘fill their tags’ they blame everyone but themselves. They didn’t come all this way and spend all that money to come home empty handed. They want the ‘grand return from the hunt’ to their split level ranch house in Compton, with bull elk and antlered deer to show how macho they are. And when they can’t do this, it is never anything they did or didn’t do. The game animals are supposed to be there for the picking, no hunting skill required.

    Not only are these hunters dangerous to themselves, to other hunters and, especially, those of us who hunt because that is the only way we can eat. They are not there for game management. They are there for trophies and to fulfill a blood lust that builds all year while they work in some menial and dehumanizing, middle management job. They take it in the neck all year from sadistic bosses. Two weeks out of the year, they show up in my backyard and try to re-assert themselves by killing animals for no other reason than it makes them feel better. Making some dumb ass who works in cubicle hell 50 weeks out of the year feel better is not a valid game management technique.

    On January 23, 2012 at 7:14 pm • Reply