Deal Allows Hunting on Calif. Island (AP)

[Eugene]

Associated Press
Deal Allows Hunting on Calif. Island
By ERICA WERNER , 09.29.2006, 11:31 AM

Deer and elk trophy hunts on a Southern California public island would continue
under a deal reached Friday by congressional negotiators. The plan defies a
federal court settlement and is strongly opposed by the National Park Service,
which wants the nonnative game removed.

Language permitting the hunts was included in the final version of an annual
defense bill agreed to by House and Senate negotiators as Congress completes
work before recessing for the Nov. 7 elections, according to Democratic House
aides.

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Santa Rosa Island, 40 miles offshore from Santa Barbara, is the second-largest
of five islands in the Channel Islands park.

Under the federal court settlement, private trophy hunts now run on 53,000-acre
island are supposed to end in 2011, and the deer and elk are to be removed.

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The National Park Service says the hunts and the nonnative game interfere with
indigenous plants and animals on the undeveloped and remote island, including
some endangered species. The hunts also restrict public access since much
of the island is off limits to visitors while they go on.

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Full article: http://www.forbes.com/technology/feeds/ap/2006/09/29/ap3055247.html

[partylessinOhio]

1. Horror upon horror. Duncan Hunter is behind this. He is another Devil.

[hunter]

2. WTF???

They want to make Santa Rosa Island a private game reserve for wealthy head-up-the-ass Dick Cheney wannabes?

Hell, populate the island with butt kissing Republican lawyers and make it really fun.

BTW, where is Dick Cheney lately? Is he dead yet?