ACTION ALERT | SUPPORT HOUSE BILL 5321

BAN STERILIZATION OF GAME SPECIES

CALL YOUR REPRESENTATIVE NOW TO SUPPORT HB 5321

Nearly a month ago, we asked you to call legislators to express your support for House Bill 5321, which would prevent another atrocity like Ann Arbor’s deer sterilization program from being authorized. As the bill has been referred to a subcommittee with no action to date, we need to light up the phones once again!

Introduced by Representative Triston Cole (R-Mancelona) at the beginning of December, HB 5321 would prohibit the Department from issuing permits that authorize the sterilization of game.

The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) has been pushing communities and state agencies around the country to adopt sterilization as a way to prevent urban bowhunting or future culling to manage deer. The DNR approved this permit under the guise of “research” with no input from the public and actually runs counter to the DNR’s own approved urban deer management policy.

It is not a great leap to see how HSUS might push this to other species, such as bears or even wolves in order to prevent hunting.

On Thursday, February 22, MUCC will be testifying again on this bill before the House Natural Resources Subcommittee, as will Ann Arbor’s contractor, White Buffalo, who is conducting this so-called “research project.” This meeting is open to the public.

Call State Representative Curt VanderWall, chair of the subcommittee, and ask him to approve HB 5321 and prevent other cities from attempting more costly and ineffective “research” on the public’s deer (517) 373-0825

Find out who your representative is here and call them today as well!