Dear folks,
Congress is back on the attack with a disastrous anti-wildlife bill.
The Sportsmen’s Heritage and Recreational Enhancement Act, also called the “SHARE” Act, is nothing more than another deceitfully-named attempt to cheat wildlife, undermine the Endangered Species Act (ESA) and spoil our public lands.
The only way the SHARE Act is generous is in its multitude of attacks on wildlife and wild places.
Among its more atrocious proposals, the SHARE Act revisits the Alaska refuge predator rule, but this time seeks to permit extreme hunting methods on national park service preserve lands in Alaska. It could turn these preserves into killing grounds where bears are baited to their deaths and wolves and their cubs are shot dead during denning season.
The long list of assaults the SHARE Act so “generously” offers also includes provisions to:
Undermine the ESA and the rule of law by legislatively delisting wolves in the Great Lakes region and upholding a recent court decision to delist wolves in Wyoming while barring judicial review of these decisions;
Allow wildlife trapping for the first time on many U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management lands;
Interfere with federal agencies’ ability to protect marine and coastal wildlife habitat – including sea turtle and seabird nesting beaches; and
Open pristine wilderness to road construction, motorized vehicles and other activities that would degrade essential wildlife habitat.
The SHARE Act’s avalanche of anti-wildlife, anti-ESA provisions are only “generous” in their unabashed attempts to undermine wildlife conservation.
Thank you for all you do to stand up for wildlife.
Sincerely,
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Robert Dewey
Vice President, Government Relations & External Affairs
Defenders of Wildlife
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