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|Originally Posted: 3 Sep 2010|
Take Action to Protect Minnesota's Sandhill Cranes from "Approved" Hunters
Tell Minnesota Department of Natural Resources to take action to stop condoning the hunting of Sandhill Cranes.
Sign an online petition
And/Or make direct contact:
Tim Pawlenty, Governor
StarTribune.com “Outdoors” reporter Doug Smith
INFORMATION / TALKING POINTS
Friends of Animals calls on Minnesotans and all bird advocates to defend birds
Who’d want to be an animal around us? Horses chased down with helicopters. Geese gassed in New York. And now it’s a sandhill crane hunting season in Minnesota, scheduled for the 4th of September through October 10th.
Who are these scary animals on whom the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources is turning hunters loose? Tall, graceful beings with sandy feathers and bright red heads. They usually mate for life. They teach their young to dance to acquire the precision and agility required for their mid-continental flights.
But that’s not how Bill Penning of the Department of Natural Resources describes them. Penning says, “I’ve never eaten them, but everyone says they’re delicious.”
Thank you for everything you do for animals!