Media Coverage - Proposal 3: No

Published November 6, 2006. Editorial. State News

Excerpt from November 6, 2006 editorial

Proposal 3, or the Dove Hunting Referendum, raises the question as to whether or not a public act passed in 2004 that established a mourning dove hunting season should be changed. Before the act was passed in 2004, hunting mourning doves was illegal.

If voters pass this proposal, hunters with a small game license would have to purchase a $2 mourning dove stamp to legally shoot the birds. While this proposal is less important and detrimental to our society as the others, we say leave the doves alone.

Mourning doves are not overpopulated or dangerous and cannot possibly be a viable food source for human consumption. There seems to be no valid reason for legalizing the hunting of the birds.

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