FYI: The Sierra Club are pro-hunting douchebags.

[LeftyMom]

They have a whole website devoted to faux-environmentalists who want to preserve nature so they have something to kill. http://www.sierrasportsmen.org/

The section on indoctrinating one's kids into animal abuse and gun culture is especially disturbing. http://www.sierrasportsmen.org/sierrasportsmen/sportskids/

The funny thing is, their own policy admits that hunting is antithetical to maintaining a natural landscape: "Because national parks are set aside for the preservation of natural landscapes and wildlife, the Sierra Club is opposed to sport hunting in national parks." Makes sense. After all, nature is self-balancing without need for human intervention, and interference only leads to further destabilization.

But the preceding sentences say the opposite. "Wildlife and Native Plant Management, Sport Hunting And Fishing - Wildlife and native plant management should emphasize maintenance and restoration of healthy, viable native plant and animal populations, their habitats, and ecological processes. Acceptable management approaches include both regulated periodic hunting and fishing when based on sufficient scientifically valid biological data and when consistent with all other management purposes and when necessary total protection of particular species or populations." http://www.sierrasportsmen.org/sierrasportsmen/policy.asp

If national parks can maintain ecological balance without hunting, why is it necessary to manage nature by killing off animals for sport outside the borders of those parks? This is either cognitive dissonance sufficient to warrant mental health concerns, or shocking dishonesty. In either case, the Sierra Club deserves neither the money nor the support of those who care about the earth.

[nankerphelge]

1. Not quite as bad as Florida's...

weirdo "youth hunt" program:

http://www.floridaconservation.org/huntered/YouthHunter/index.htm

Our Florida tax dollars at work!

[LeftyMom]

2. Who knew global warming had an upside?

Oh wait, when Florida floods, that means the armed crazies will move north. :scared:

[Ignis]

3. I wish I could pretend to be surprised, but...

The National Sierra Club Board of Directors voted on March 25, 2008 to dismantle the entire democratically -elected structure of the Florida Chapter of the Sierra Club, the fourth largest Chapter in the nation.

...

The National bureaucracy manufactured the convenient local dissent to serve as a pretense for swatting our Chapter leadership out of their way. They found the Chapter's scrutiny of their policies inconvenient.

It was inconvenient to justify their devotion to ill-advised biofuels schemes.

It was inconvenient to justify their Clorox-like promotion of more commercial products (the backbone of their announced $500 million dollar fundraising campaign) authorized in an unannounced board decision just days before the Florida suspension.

And it was really inconvenient and annoying to put up with local resistance to the stampede toward National control of Sierra activities in Florida.

-- http://www.counterpunch.org/orr03312008.html

The Sierra Club just isn't the same anymore. :(

[RebelOne]

4. I used to donate to The Nature Conservancy

until I found out that they were pro-hunting.

[flvegan]

5. World Wildlife Fund supports the Canadian seal hunt.

Even Greenpeace has recently endorsed certain "hunting" favoring a kangaroo "cull".

Google "meanie greenie" and there are a few articles out there about wildlife/conservation/environmental groups that support hunting.

None of these orgs will ever see a dime of my money.

[LeftyMom]

6. Grenpeace was going to be my next thread, asshat.

x(

You neglected to mention that they've had staffers go eat whale with Japanese people. Y'know, to stop whaling. That's like buying clothes at WalMart to fight sweatshops. :eyes:

[flvegan]

7. They're a mere shadow of what they used to be.

The Rainbow Warrior is dead.