OPERATION BUY BACK THEIR LIVES WITH A LICENSE TO PROTECT

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PO Box 1183, Jefferson, Oregon 97352
503-743-2318

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Responsible Oregonians For A Sustainable, Safe, and Humane Cougar Management Plan.  Looking ahead we strive to preserve the large predators that are the “Key Corner Stones” to a healthy management of Nature and ultimately how we will eat and live.  Could the loss of cougar in 36 States contributed to the colony collapse of our bees that threatens our food supply?

Oregon Cougar Action Team has been blessed with some of the most forward thinking and compassionate members any organization could hope for.  Individuals with capacity to re-imagine Oregon as a State tolerant of all our once rich biodiversity, bestowing upon our Natural resources the dignity long overdue them in the hopes to revive our once abundant ecosystems.  I hold credit to Mountain Lion Foundation for giving me 1800 hours of training, Professor William Ripple of OSU’s www.LordsOfNature.org research work, and the  innovative thinking of  OreCat members for designing the  program called “Operation Buy Back Their Lives With A License To Protect“.  If you can hold the following vision in your heart and mind, please join us today and use our ideas to create a Bill in your State.  We want you to copy us, we want you to use our ideas.  We want you to save your cougar.  Go to our website:  www.OreCat.org (503-743-2318) to learn more about this program we are promoting here in Oregon.  Join us, help us with funding, or start your own cougar program.  But most of all, support your fellow cougar organizations and unit with Mountain Lion Foundation with the possible goal of putting this great Cat on the endangered list.

Operation Buy Back Their Lives With A License To Protect is an innovate and forward thinking program that contributes not only to the reversal of our current planetary concerns, but contributes to healthy forests, clean air, and repaired watersheds. (see www.LordsOfNature.org and read “The American Hunting Myth”, by Ron Baker.

In Oregon today non-hunting individuals have no representation concerning our wildlife because there is no legal avenue open to influence the direction of policies taken by ODFW by paying them, as a hunter does, to manage uniquely for the interest of those who have paid ODFW to manage Oregon’s resources for their own desires.  If one individual can pay ODFW to kill wildlife, than another individual must have the right to pay ODFW to not kill wildlife.  Members of OreCat re-imagine Oregon ODFW respecting the rights of the none hunting individual who want to participate with the Natural resources that belong to all Oregonians, not an Oregon wildlife management program designed just on the whims of hunters.  With this plan an Oregonian would be able to buy a “license to protect” in order to create a balanced source of income from hunters and non-hunters.  The only element missing in all past approaches was the proposition of a course of income equal or superior to what ODFW gets from hunters.  As an example, licenses could be sold at all the same outlets as licenses to kill = and for the same amount!  Once all is sold, a tally could be made and from the 777 cougars that are property of ALL Oregonians, 500 may be bought back and saved.  Receiving money from non-hunters would curtail ODFW from recruiting more hunters (a really bad carbon imprint in the wilderness), relaxing regulations (a hay day for poachers), giving them more access to land (resulting in more private property damage and trespassing), and so on.  In paying ODFW, there is no doubt that the catastrophic situation for the cougars and other wildlife such as the declining bears and the horrific damage off road vehicles create, lead pollution from hunting ammo, private property damage, livestock killing, animal displacement from all the invasive activity the selling of over 500,000 licenses can cause as well as a huge carbon imprint this kind of killing obsession promotes; will be turned around.  Then those who cherish a living Oregon wildlife and healthy ecosystems would in essence become ODFW’s other “employer.”  For more information, visit www.OreCat.org or www.LordsOfNature.org, or call 503-743-231.   Jayne Miller, Director, OreCat