Yes! Please do take a minute to call, email or write Mike Chase with your comments. Every one of them is important!! Steve Routledge ----- Original Message ----- From: "Melinda Welton" <weltonmj@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "tnbird" <tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2010 10:26 AM Subject: [TN-Bird] Cranes and TWRA Chairperson Mike Chase > Dear all, > Sylvia Anglin's recent post about sending in comments about the cranes > mentions that Mike Chase had only received one letter opposing the crane > hunt as of October 19th. Please note that Mike Chase is the Chairperson of > the TWRA Commission. He's apparently paying attention to the comments that > he is getting. > His address is: > P.O. Box 50370 > Knoxville, TN 37950 > Business: (865) 522-3500 > Fax: (865) 522-8526 > E-mail: mike.chase@xxxxxx > > Cyndi Routledge, thank you for sending this link. > http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2010/oct/23/proposal-to-hunt-sandhill-cranes-sh > ould-be/ > The author hits on some of the most important points, in my opinion. > > Melinda Welton > Franklin, TN > > > ³When one tugs at a single thing in nature, they find it attached to the > rest of the world.² ~John Muir > > > >> This article is SO well written. Thanks, Vickie, for providing the link. >> >> Multiple addresses of TN officials involved in this issue are provided in >> this article. I can't help but copy and paste the following compelling >> section: >> >> *UPDATE: As of Tuesday, October 19, Mike Chase had received exactly ONE >> letter in protest. And that was from Janet McKnight. He called her to >> thank >> her for writing. My screed should arrive today. So then he'll have two >> letters of protest. This is a well-publicized thing-better now, thanks to >> 10,000 Birds. And yet even Tennessee's birders remain silent-perhaps >> happy >> to passively enjoy birds without bothering to question their state's >> management choices. Birders, if you don't act, you've no room to complain >> about the outcome of this proposal. Think about training your binoculars >> on >> a family group of sandhill cranes kiting into a cornfield, hearing shots, >> and seeing two crumple to the ground. If that thought bothers you, WRITE. >> >> Sylvia Anglin >> Nashville >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: <Viclcsw@xxxxxxx> >> To: <tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2010 7:20 AM >> Subject: [TN-Bird] NPR Commentator Julie Zickefoose on TN's Crane hunt >> proposal >> >> >>> You may already know Julie Zickefoose as artist, writer, birder and NPR >>> commentator. TN's Janet McKnight alerted her to the hunt proposal in >>> TN. >>> As >>> a result, she wrote a commentary on hunting cranes in one of the most >>> read >>> birding blogs on the internet. Read what she has to say and if you >>> haven't already responded, give thought to your own response to the >>> call >>> for >>> comment on TWRA's proposal to hunt TN's sandhill cranes. >>> >>> Most of all, use your voice. >>> >>> Here is the link to her comments and to the many responses she has >>> already >>> received. >>> >>> _http://10000birds.com/shooting-sandhills-in-tennessee.htm_ >>> (http://10000birds.com/shooting-sandhills-in-tennessee.htm) >>> >>> Vickie Henderson >>> Knoxville, TN >>> Knox County >>> >>> =================NOTES TO SUBSCRIBER===================== >>> >>> The TN-Bird Net requires you to SIGN YOUR MESSAGE with >>> first and last name, CITY (TOWN) and state abbreviation. >>> You are also required to list the COUNTY in which the birds >>> you report were seen. 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Moderator: Wallace Coffey, Bristol, TN wallace@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ------------------------------ Assistant Moderator Andy Jones Cleveland, OH ------------------------------- Assistant Moderator Dave Worley Rosedale, VA -------------------------------- Assistant Moderator Chris O'Bryan Clarksville, TN __________________________________________________________ Visit the Tennessee Ornithological Society web site at http://www.tnbirds.org * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ARCHIVES TN-Bird Net Archives at //www.freelists.org/archives/tn-bird/ MAP RESOURCES Tenn.Counties Map at http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/states/tennessee3.gif Aerial photos to complement google maps http://local.live.com _____________________________________________________________