What Can you do?
Contact your State and Federal Senators and Representatives.
Write Letters and follow up with Phone calls.
If you have any personal connections with anyone in a state or federal political office, make them aware of this situation. Ask for assistance and for them to get involved.
Copies of sample letters are available here, please send one to everyone you can.
Follow up these letters with phone calls.
If you are not from Ohio, contact your federal Representatives and Senators, since this is supposedly coming from the Federal Division of Fish and Wildlife your state could be next, let's stop this now. We are sportsmen and we pay Pittman Robertson Taxes also. Our Sport is a form of Hunting and we give more than we take.
On a side note, when writing the letters, mention the issues of the Division of Wildlife not being entirely truthful concerning this situation. Several individuals have gotten responses from the letters stating that the receiving politician would forward the concern to the Division of Wildlife, well they are the problem, we need the politicians to get involved!
Your local and federal Representatives and Senators can be found by clicking below;
Find Local and Federal Contacts
*** Feb 6, 2008 Updates ***
In addition to your local and federal representatives, please write the following and have everyone you know whom lives in these districts write;
Ohio 14th District; Representative Steven LaTourette, One Victoria Place # 320, Painesville OH 44077;
Ohio 18th District; Representative Zack Space, 137 East Iron Avenue, Dover OH 44622
***** Feb 27, 2008 Updates additional Representatives to write to, this is an election year write to them *****
Ohio 2nd District; Representative Jean Schmidt, 8044 Montgomery Rd, Suite 540 Cincinnati OH 45236
Ohio 4th District; Representative Jim Jordan 100 East Main Cross, Suite 201, Findlay Ohio 45840
Ohio 5th District; Representative Robert E Latta 1045 North Main Street Suite 6, Bowling Green Ohio 43402
Fish and Wildlife Contacts;
Dale Hall, Director U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 1849 C Street N.W. Washington DC 20240
And
Charles M. Wooley, Acting Regional Director, Fish and Wildlife Service, Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building, 1 Federal Drive, Fort Snelling MN 55111
Sample letter 1 Sample Letter 2 Sample Letter 3
Sample letters to US Fish and Wildlife; I will in the future post copies of the letters received from US Fish and Wildlife for everyones' review