“For bid: the smug satisfaction of shooting a wild mountain sheep ram in B.C. outside of the regular hunting season. Expected selling price: upwards of $250,000 US.

That is what the B.C. government is offering this weekend at a conservation fundraising auction during the annual convention of the Wild Sheep Foundation in Reno, Nev.”

Read more: http://www.vancouversun.com/news/government+auctions…

My letter to the editor:

Auctioning right to shoot wild sheep is woolly headed

Re: B.C. government auctions off chance to kill a wild sheep, Feb. 2

Let’s see if I’ve got this straight. The provincial government is giving the highest bidder a chance to carry out a cold-blooded, calculated execution of a magnificent and defenseless wild mountain sheep.

And it’s being justified in the name of “conservation fundraising.” Doesn’t anyone see the irony here? I suggest solutions without bloodshed, but perhaps that’s too radical a thought.

Carmina Gooch, North Vancouver

http://www.vancouversun.com/opinion/letters/taxes+from+concern…