Originally scheduled to be heard on Feb. 20, the House Agriculture & Conservation Committee has rescheduled House Bill 2900 for next Tuesday, March 5. As previously reported, animal-rights activists are using bills like HB 2900 as a toehold to expand their reach and influence to implement bigger plans in the future of restricting and ultimately eliminating hunting in the Land of Lincoln.
If you have not already done so, use our Take Action button to email the committee members urging them to OPPOSE HB 2900.
HB 2900 is aimed at banning coyote contests but is written to ban any contest or competition taking any fur-bearing mammal, with limited exemptions.
Coyotes are North America’s most abundant predator species, with healthy populations in every corner of the country. Being highly adaptable, coyotes have come to occupy just about every type of landscape in both urban and rural settings.
In fact, coyotes are so adaptable that in many areas, controlling their numbers has been a major problem for fish and wildlife managers. Coyote contests are one important mechanism to control the population and reduce the negative consequences of extremely high populations, including the spread of disease, predation of pets, and attacks on humans. HB 2900 would eliminate this important wildlife management tool. Sportsmen throughout the Prairie State must stand up and be counted on this one.
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