Earthjustice fighting to halt Grizzly hunt in Wyoming.

LAST EDITED ON Jul-27-18 AT 10:26PM (MST)[p]
https://earthjustice.org/news/press...-s-vote-to-open-hunt-of-yellowstone-grizzlies



"We will do everything we can to use the power of the law to make sure that this illegal delisting decision does not result in dead grizzlies this fall due to Wyoming?s planned hunt."
Tim Preso
Managing Attorney, Earthjustice



How am I to believe BHA has my best interest as a hunter in mind, if the Western Coservation Foundation donates money to both BHA and Earthjustice, when these are the types of causes they defend?



https://www.ammoland.com/2014/08/irs-complaint-targets-backcountry-hunters-anglers/#axzz5MKu0H1mZ


Along with receiving nearly $280,000 in 2011 and 2012 from the Western Conservation Foundation?which also funds Natural Resources Defense Council and Earthjustice (the ?law firm of the environment?)?BHA has received $165,000 from the Wilburforce Foundation in recent years, a Seattle group that also funds Greenpeace, the Sierra Club Foundation, and others. BHA also received $100,000 from the wealthy, radical, San Francisco-based Hewlett Foundation and nearly $60,000 from the environmentalist Pew Charitable Trusts for ?policy? in 2012/13.



#livelikezac

I have never felt comfortable jumping into bed with BHA, like so many others have. Their funding sources was always a big reason.

You have to be careful who you sleep with. You could wake up with fleas, or a knife in your back.

It looks like you're regurgitating the American Lands Council talking points...

http://www.americanlandscouncil.org/backcountry_hunters_anglers_reveals_thier_radical_side

Have you ever heard, "The enemy if my enemy is my friend"?

I've heard the Green Decoys stuff before. Here's some good info from Randy Newberg...

https://onyourownadventures.com/hun...quot-green-decoys-quot&highlight=Green+decoys

https://onyourownadventures.com/hunttalk/showthread.php?273247-Greendecoys&highlight=Green+decoys

And here's Steven Rinella addressing the whole Green Decoy theory...

http://www.themeateater.com/podcasts/podcastepisode022/

You feel free to stand with ALC, easily the biggest anti-public land group in the country. I'll hang my hat with Rinella, Newberg, and Remi.

Grizzly

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"This is a classic case of a handful of greedy fly fishermen getting too greedy." -Don Peay, Founder of SFW, as told to KUTV

"It's time to revisit the widely accepted principle in the United States and Canada that game is a public resource."
-Don Peay, Founder of SFW, as quoted in Anchorage Daily News

Since so many guys won't click the links and educate themselves, I'll leave this here.

Directly from the mouth of Randy Newberg...

I've concluded there is some benefit to the?GreenDecoys?smear campaign. That benefit being, those who post?Green?Decoys?as some sort of factual consideration in a debate unknowingly self-identify as spoon fed folks too lazy/disinterested/ignorant to think for themselves when arriving at the conspiracy-style opinions most of them are so quick to share.

I used to have a bit more tolerance for such spewing of BS conspiracy theories, under the premise they were well-intentioned and just uniformed. No more. Most I've engaged with have no interest in facts or critical analysis.

Maybe the OP is different. Use of the?Green?Decoy conspiracy causes me to immediately discount anything posted by said person until proven otherwise.

My name is Randy Newberg and I approved this post. What is written is my opinion, and my opinion only.

LAST EDITED ON Jul-28-18 AT 00:27AM (MST)[p]This should finalize the BHA/Green Decoy smear campaign discussion...

" Mr. Berman solicited up to $3 million from oil and gas industry executives to finance an advertising and public relations campaign called Big Green Radicals."

Source-https://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/31/us/politics/pr-executives-western-energy-alliance-speech-taped.html

Grizzly

WASHINGTON ? If the oil and gas industry wants to prevent its opponents from slowing its efforts to drill in more places, it must be prepared to employ tactics like digging up embarrassing tidbits about environmentalists and liberal celebrities, a veteran Washington political consultant told a room full of industry executives in a speech that was secretly recorded.

The blunt advice from the consultant, Richard Berman, the founder and chief executive of the Washington-based Berman & Company consulting firm, came as Mr. Berman solicited up to $3 million from oil and gas industry executives to finance an advertising and public relations campaign called Big Green Radicals.

The company executives, Mr. Berman said in his speech, must be willing to exploit emotions like fear, greed and anger and turn them against the environmental groups. And major corporations secretly financing such a campaign should not worry about offending the general public because ?you can either win ugly or lose pretty,? he said.
Continue reading the main story
Document

?Endless War? and Other Rallying Points

This transcript of the speech made by Richard Berman in June in Colorado Springs to a group of energy executives, as well as other documents, provides a unguarded glimpse of Mr. Berman?s lobbying tactics.


OPEN Document

?Think of this as an endless war,? Mr. Berman told the crowd at the June event in Colorado Springs, sponsored by the Western Energy Alliance, a group whose members include Devon Energy, Halliburton and Anadarko Petroleum, which specialize in extracting oil and gas through hydraulic fracturing, also known as fracking. ?And you have to budget for it.?

What Mr. Berman did not know ? and what could now complicate his task of marginalizing environmental groups that want to impose limits on fracking ? is that one of the energy industry executives recorded his remarks and was offended by them.

But the speech, given in June at the Broadmoor Hotel and Resort, where the Western Energy Alliance held its 2014 annual meeting, could end up bringing a new round of scrutiny to Mr. Berman and the vast network of nonprofit groups and think tanks he runs out of his downtown Washington office.

Mr. Berman repeatedly boasted about how he could take checks from the oil and gas industry executives ? he said he had already collected six-figure contributions from some of the executives in the room ? and then hide their role in funding his campaigns.

?People always ask me one question all the time: ?How do I know that I won't be found out as a supporter of what you're doing?? ? Mr. Berman told the crowd. ?We run all of this stuff through nonprofit organizations that are insulated from having to disclose donors. There is total anonymity. People don't know who supports us.?

-NY TIMES





From the party of HUNTIN, FISHIN, PUBLIC LAND.

LAST EDITED ON Jul-28-18 AT 07:04AM (MST)[p]Green Decoys is a project of the Environmental Policy Alliance. The project's only public contact is Banks Woodruff, who is an employee of Berman & Co.[4]. His email address is from the Center for Consumer Freedom, a front group run by Rick Berman's PR firm Berman & Co. for the restaurant, alcohol, tobacco and other industries.

-Sourcewatch.org

Who or what is Green Decoys? Essentially, Green Decoys is one of a big laundry list of so-called non-profit organizations run out of the office of a Washington D.C. consulting firm, Berman and Company. The CEO of Berman and Company, Richard Berman, attracts industry funding, promising that all the money is funneled through non-profit organizations that shield the identity of their donors. Black money, in other words. Will Coggin, the purported author of the op-ed pieces is a staffer of Berman and Company.

-Writing outdoors





From the party of HUNTIN, FISHIN, PUBLIC LAND.

LAST EDITED ON Jul-28-18 AT 07:10AM (MST)[p]If your going to attack BHA with this drivel at least credit the source when you do so.


Your using RICHARD BERMANS content, paid for by Halibuton, BP, Andarko, etc, etc.

They are also targeting TRPC, Trout Unlimited, and a few others.

Now why would Petroleum Companies and their lobbyist attack BHA?


From the party of HUNTIN, FISHIN, PUBLIC LAND.

If I wasn't #293 I'd be doing everything I could to make
sure there was one dead Grizzly this fall.
Earthjustice can KMCA!!!