Your help is urgently needed to protect wildlife! Ask the Senate to OPPOSE the Share act and Bipartisan Sportsmens Act!

This is a sweeping pro-trophy hunting and trapping bill. Mandate a free-for-all of trappers/hunters/fishermen/recreational shooters on 700 million acres of National Forests and Bureau of Land Management land (BLM) – federal public land that belongs to YOU.

The Bipartisan's Sportsman Act of 2015-16 has passed in the US House. If you care about America's national parks, wilderness and wildlife please stand with majority of your voters and say NO to the The Bipartisan's Sportsman Act of 2015-16 - S. 659 and the H.R. 2406 SHARE ACT! It's Apalling that we have been overcome with laws that CATER to extreme wildlife killings, abuse, trophy slaughters and laugh in the face of science or any attempt of environmental actions. This needs to STOP! The rest of the world looks upon America not as a leader as we once was, but now in horror. US Senators, take this time and use it to stop this and OPPOSE these laws, so we as a people will not have to ask the President to VETO them. This is a Clear assault on wildlife both at home and abroad! Please read what is included in the "Package Deal givaway to special ANTI-WILDLIFE EXTREMISTS!" ........ If enacted, H.R. 2406 will have substantial adverse impacts on wildlife, conservation efforts, and public health and safety. Included in the bill's language are provisions that would: For example, the bill would including trapping under the definition of hunting, opening hundreds of millions of public lands to cruel trapping. In addition, the bill would force land managers to prioritize hunting and trapping above other outdoor activities, effectively excluding a large proportion of the American public from enjoying national spaces that belong to all of us. This and other changes in S. 405 are in direct conflict with the stated purpose of the Wilderness Act, which is to establish areas “where the earth and its community of life are untrammeled by man, where man himself is a visitor who does not remain.” Prevent the Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of the Interior, and the Department of Agriculture from regulating lead—a potent and dangerous neurotoxin—in fishing tackle and ammunition. An estimated 10-20 million animals die from lead poisoning each year in the United States after ingesting lead shot, bullet fragments, and sport fishing waste. Take the unprecedented step of defining trapping as a form of hunting.

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This would open up more federal lands to the setting of steel-jaw leghold traps and other body-gripping traps that pose grave risks to public safety, wildlife, and even companion animals. Declare that millions of acres of public lands are automatically open to hunting and trapping without any scrutiny.

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Public land managers seeking to disallow these activities in order to protect wildlife, habitat, and the public would face huge bureaucratic hurdles. Compel the National Park Service to allow private hunters to shoot bison in Grand Canyon National Park as part of its management plan. Halt the US Fish and Wildlife Service's efforts to protect elephants from poaching and to curb the demand for ivory. Allow the importation of polar bear carcasses. This provision rewards hunters who raced to kill polar bears for trophies before their listing under the Endangered Species Act. Granting waivers such as this sets a dangerous precedent and signals to trophy hunters that they can flout the law. H.R. 2406 purports to enhance recreational outdoor opportunities, but as the above provisions make clear, this legislation represents nothing more than a troubling grab bag of measures that would jeopardize already fragile ecosystems and negatively impact animal welfare.

Expand the use of body-gripping traps on public lands and define trapping as a form of hunting in federal law; Halt the US Fish and Wildlife Service’s efforts to protect elephants from poaching and curb the demand for ivory; Put bison within Grand Canyon National Park in the crosshairs of private hunters;

Remove federal protections from wolves in Wyoming and in the Great Lakes region, thereby subjecting these imperiled animals to hunting and trapping; Weaken existing law to make it easier to shoot, over bait, otherwise protected migratory birds; Block the Department of Interior from implementing policies to protect predators in Alaska from rampant killing on national wildlife refuges and national preserves; Codify an “open until closed” policy that expands hunting and trapping across public lands with no consideration for whether such increased consumptive use promotes sound conservation policies; Prevent numerous agencies from regulating or even assessing the risks to the environment, wildlife, and the public posed by lead ammunition and fishing tackle; and

Allow trophy hunters who raced to kill polar bears after the species was proposed for listing under the Endangered Species Act to import the trophies into the country. The National Rifle Association applauds the passage of H.R. 2406,

the Sportsmen’s Heritage and Recreational Enhancement (SHARE) Act. Introduced by Representative Robert Wittman (R-VA 1), the SHARE Act provides enhanced access to public lands while limiting punitive regulations promoted by “animal rights” extremists.

“On behalf of our 5 million members, we would like to thank Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI 1), Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA-23) and Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R-LA 1). We also appreciate the hard work of Natural Resources Committee Chairman Rob Bishop (R-UT 1), Rules Committee Chairman Pete Sessions (R-TX 32) and the lead sponsors of the bill: Reps. Robert Wittman (R-VA 1), Tim Walz (D-MN 1), Jeff Duncan (R-SC 3), and Gene Green (D-TX 29) on moving this legislation through the House,” concluded Cox.

The bill now heads to the U.S. Senate, where a similar package (the Bipartisan Sportsmen’s Act of 2015) has already advanced from the Committees on Energy and Natural Resources and Environment and Public Works.

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PLEASE STOP THIS LAW! ... For the health of our Woods, Wildlife, Water, and the Future... Thank you

H.R. 2406 SHARE ACT This omnibus legislation is cruel to wildlife and damaging to affected ecosystems, and it reverses years of work done to protect animals and the environment--all for the benefit of a small percentage of hunters. Please oppose H.R. 2406 when it comes up for a vote.

https://www.popvox.com/bills/us/114/hr2406

S. 659 BIPARTISAN SPORTSMEN'S ACT OF 2016 Introduced on Mar 4, 2015

https://www.popvox.com/bills/us/114/s659

H.R. 2406: SHARE Act

https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/114-2016/h101

http://sosnatureprotection.com/2015/09/04/stop-sportsmens-heritage-and-recreational-enhancement-act-and-bipartisan-sportsmens-act-of-2015/