February 2, 2013 Larry Pynn, Vancouver Sun
“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…