Dear Listers: The following message a forward from our friends in Kentucky. Please take a minute to help. Cyndi Routledge The public comment period on the Kentucky Dept. of Fish and Wildlife Resources crane hunt regulation ends Aug 1. Forwarded below is info from the Kentucky Coalition for Sandhill Cranes with an email link to Rose Mack. Please click on this link and send her a quick email saying that you are opposed to the hunt. A one line message stating that you are opposed is sufficient. For more info check out the coalition's website at the links copied in the forwarded message. Help us utilize the cranes as a wildlife-watching resource for the benefit of all. Thank you very much, david roemer ACTION ALERT!!!!! KDFWR's public comment period on the regulation that authorizes the Sandhill Crane hunt began July 1and runs through Monday, August 1. Any U.S. citizen may comment. Please encourage all family and friends to express their opposition by sending comments by post, fax, email or hand-delivery by August 1 to: ROSE MACK KDFWR, Mitchell Building #1 Sportsman's Lane, Frankfort, KY 40601 rose.mack@xxxxxx (502) 564-3400; FAX (502) 564-5136. The public hearing required by KRS Ch 13A is July 21, 9 a.m., at the above address. All comments must be affirmatively considered by KDFWR. If possible please consider attending this important public hearing. For more information go to the the KCFSC website "Call to Action" page http://kyc4sandhillcranes.wordpress.com/call-to-action/ Read letters of opposition, Op-ed pieces and articles that have appeared in papers across the state. http://kyc4sandhillcranes.wordpress.com/media/ As of today, sixteen Kentucky conservation organizations have joined together to oppose the proposed Sandhill season. If you are a member of an organization that would like to take a stand in opposition to the hunt please let me know so your name can be added. To read the joint letter opposing the crane hunt sent to both KDFWR and USFWS, go to the KY Resources Council's webpage – http://www.kyrc.org/ Sincerely, Mary W. Yandell Kentucky Coalition for Sandhill Cranes http://kyc4sandhillcranes.wordpress.com/ <") ( \ / |` Cyndi "When one tugs at a single thing in Nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world." ~John Muir