Subject: Gulls under the Gun!
Date: Mar 12 21:03:24 2004
From: mike denny - m.denny at charter.net
Hello All,
Just returned home from a trip south to see the Falcated Duck, with success I might add.
Upon our return was a message that Wildlife Services was up at the Walla Walla City Dump blasting Gulls. I have not seen it yet, but understand the reason they were invited in to kill and wound gulls was due to some folks complaining about the gulls pooping on their vehicles while they dumped their trash. One witness watched as this killer wing of the USDA blew close to 50 gulls out of the air. He said that there were injured gulls running around all over this big dump. He did not see the Wildlife Services gunners making any attempt at humanely putting the suffering birds out of their misery. As this guy left he said there were wounded gulls running around with drooping wings and in great distress. This is unnecessary and only the beginning of the plans to kill as many fish eating birds as possible in the Lower Columbia Basin. Wildlife Services has no skills to figure out what they are shooting. To them they are just gulls and great fun to shoot on top of getting payed to do it. We can get use to this or speak up and get their funding cut!
Later Mike
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Mike & MerryLynn Denny
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College Place, WA 99324
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