Hello IWF Affiliates,
Good news that we can confirm, HB1265 Hunting Preserves is definitely NOT going to be heard in the Senate. As you may know, after passing the House, Sen. David Long assigned it to the Senate Rules Committee and said this was a bad bill for Indiana. Gov. Mitch Daniels spoke out against canned hunting and his office confirmed with IWF yesterday “the bill is dead”.
Thanks to all of you and your club members who contacted your legislators voicing your opposition to canned hunting in Indiana. While we have won the battle this year, as government leadership changes in the future, we need to be prepared for this to come up again. Please continue to educate the Representatives and Senators in your district.
Feel free to pass this email along to your members or others. We are working hard to keep everyone up to date but it seems these issues move and change so quickly it’s a challenge to keep us all on the same page!
Please give me a call if you’d like more background or have ideas of additional actions we should take if a cannned hunting bill comes up in the next legislative session.
Barb
Barbara Simpson
Executive Director
Indiana Wildlife Federation
4715 West 106th Street
Zionsville, IN 46077
317-875-9453 office
317-697-3550 cell
800-347-3445
