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11/05/2010 4:22 AM
Some Tennesseans question need for hunting rights amendment
http://www.tennesse an.com/article/ 20100909/ NEWS01/9090346/ 2066/NEWS03
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Some Tennesseans question need for hunting rights amendment
By Anne Paine • THE TENNESSEAN • September 9, 2010
Tennessee voters this fall will be asked to decide whether hunting and
fishing should be a constitutional right, a position already taken in 10
other states.
Advocates, including the Tennessee Wildlife Federation, say amending the
state constitution will prevent radical animal rights activists and an
increasingly urban state legislature from one day shutting down the
activities.
But some hunters and non-hunters find the proposal perplexing, saying
that hunting and fishing don't appear to be at risk in Tennessee.
"I think it's a tempest in a teapot to make it into a constitutional
anything," said Fred Ziegler of Hurricane Mills, about 70 miles west of
Nashville... ...
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"We're trying to do something pro-active so we're not in a position like
the people in Michigan when they outlawed dove season there," said Mike
Butler, executive director of the Tennessee Wildlife Federation, a
conservation group.
In Michigan, voters banned hunting of the mourning dove in a 2006
referendum. It had been allowed for the first time in that state two
years earlier by an act of the Michigan legislature. .....
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