AZPDC. December Meeting. Sweet Potatoe Treats. In This Issue. Save The Date: March 24, Tuesday, December 12th

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Save The Date: March 24, 2018 For our club banquet!

7 th Ave, Phoenix, AZ AZPDC December Meeting (7 th Ave & Polk, close to where

Issue Sweet Potatoe Treats Letter from the President pg. 2 Volunteer Hunt pg.

7 Ingredients 1 cup of canned sweet potato (you can sub fresh if you want) 1 3/4

Market Place pg. 8 Recipe Preheat oven to 350 F.

1 Save The Date: March 24, 2018 For our club banquet! October/November 2017 Beatitudes 1610 W Glendale Ave Phoenix, AZ The holidays are right around the corner! We d like to feature your pup s holiday pictures for our December edition! us at azpdcnews@gmail.com Tuesday, December 12th American Legion Post #1 364 N. 7 th Ave, Phoenix, AZ AZPDC December Meeting (7 th Ave & Polk, close to where Grand Avenue meets 7 th Ave) Food is available for purchase until 7:00PM In This Issue Sweet Potatoe Treats Letter from the President pg. 2 Volunteer Hunt pg. 4 Volunteer Hunt pg. 5 Flash from the Past pg. 6 Banquet Sponsors pg. 7 Ingredients 1 cup of canned sweet potato (you can sub fresh if you want) 1 3/4 cups whole wheat flour, brown rice flour, or gluten free flour 1 egg (beaten) Market Place pg. 8 Recipe Preheat oven to 350 F. Stir ingredients together in a large bowl until dough forms. Roll dough into small balls and place on a cookie sheet lined with parchment paper. Press dough down slightly so the biscuits are about 1/4 inch thick. Bake until golden brown and let cool on a wire rack.

2 Letter from the President Dear Club Members, This is in regards to the recent initiative being pushed to ban lion and bobcat. Stick with me here. Whether you hunt or not, oppose it or not, or don't care I'd really like you to be educated on what is happening because it can affect you. In a nutshell, banning the hunting is a huge mistake. Banning will result in more attacks on humans and pets and livestock. It will put the biologists and other related people out of work, you the tax payer will be footing the bill to kill these lions/bobcats with hounds when they endanger people or livestock. In the case in California where they already banned the hunting, more lions are killed each year now than when you could legally hunt them. Hunters raise $200,000 each year to pay for the biologists to track, monitor, and manage these lions. It is proactive management, not reactive as it will be when they have no management as this group wants. Please read the article and when you see these people from the Humane Society and Arizonans for Wildlife please do not sign their petition. Read the article below for more information b3e9-a8e41aee5763.html WOLF S DEN: Anti-lion hunting initiative makes no scientific sense BY DAVID L. WOLF Special to the Daily Sun Nov 7, 2017 The Coconino Coalition for Children and Youth unveiled its final PAWS mountain lion sculpture in the lobby of the Americans for Community Action Family Health Center last Thursday. The sculpture was designed by local artist Molly Sutton and a group of children in the Fit Kids of Arizona program to promote healthy living. MICHELLE McMANIMON Sun Staff Reporter Science-based decision-making is being threatened by an initiative being circulated by a group calling themselves Arizona For Wildlife. The truth is, the initiative effort for the 2018 ballot is being driven by the Humane Society of the United States and, just so you know, HSUS has very little to do with humane shelters. And this new name, Arizona For Wildlife, is just one of the many aliases HSUS uses, according to the Huffington Post. The very idea of replacing scientific wildlife management with the whims and emotions of the ballot box should disturb us all. HSUS leader Wayne Pacelle is an avid anti-hunter whose only mission is to stop all hunting. Let s take a look at AFW claims. AFW claims; Each year thousands of mountain lions and bobcats are killed in Arizona. Here are the facts. The annual harvest of mountain lions in Arizona is 250 with a stable population of 2,700. Considering a male mountain lion home range is 100 square miles and they don t tolerate other male lions in their home range and the available habitat for mountain lions in Arizona is 75,240 square miles, we have one mountain lion for every 28 square miles. Ban lion hunting and more mountain lions will have to kill other mountain lions just to survive. The annual harvest of bobcats is 2,000 by hunters and 1,000 by trappers on private land. That is 4 percent of the Arizona population of 65,000, per a Cornell University study. A bobcat's home range is 12 square miles. And, the bobcat population in Arizona is growing. The point is, you cannot stockpile wildlife. We tried that with deer on the North Kaibab years ago and it ended in disaster. There is only so much habitat, that habitat is shrinking and science-based management is needed now more than ever. AFW claim; They are killed by the cruelest methods imaginable They are referring to trapping. Trapping was banned in Arizona is 2006 but traps can still be used on private land. I am not a trapper and having heard all the horror stories years ago, I went out with a trapper. Every animal I saw in a foothold trap was asleep, every one. I saw no agony. AFW claims; Mountain lions are chased down by hounds and shot at point-blank range.

3 Letter from the President AFW claims; Mountain lions are chased down by hounds and shot at point-blank range. Yes, they are and for a very good reason. Hunting lions with hounds allows the hunter to determine the sex of the lion before pulling the trigger. The goal is to protect the female lions. Using hounds makes this possible. Killing a female lion with cubs is illegal. AFW uses the term Trophy Hunter in a disparaging way without defining it. Mountain lions are a game animal in Arizona and it is illegal to waste the meat. And, mountain lion meat, like elk meat, deer meat, or beef, is very tasty. There are no trophy hunts for any wildlife species in Arizona. AFW says; If a trophy hunter kills the female the kittens die a horrible death. That is why we use hounds and the reason we have hunting seasons all designed to protect the females and it is illegal to kill a female with cubs. And there are no trophy hunts. AFW says, Jaguars, ocelots and lynx can fall victim to these cruel methods as well Liar, liar pants on fire, as we said when we were kids. There are no lynx in Arizona. There have been six jaguars sighted in the state since 1960 that have crossed the border from Mexico, and jaguars are federally and state protected and are not hunted or trapped. There is usually one confirmed ocelot sighted in southern Arizona each year. Ocelots like jaguars live in Mexico. Ocelots are also protected and are not hunted or trapped. Why is HSUS trying to sell the idea federally and state protected animals that are not hunted or trapped need even more protection? AFW says; Because Arizona Game and Fish and the Arizona Legislature have failed to adequately protect Arizona s wild cats over the decades we call upon Arizona s voters to do it. Another lie. The Arizona mountain lion population is stable and has been for decades. The bobcat population has increased over the decades. And, by design, the Arizona Legislature has no authority to make wildlife management decisions. That is done by wildlife biologists using scientific data. The goal of HSUS-funded Arizonan for Wildlife is, as HSUS leader Wayne Pacelle said, If we could shut down all sport hunting in a moment, we would. That is what this initiative effort is all about and you need to ask why is AFW trying to use emotion to achieve their mission. Let s keep science in charge of our wildlife. Your Club President Joe Seitzer

4 Volunteer Hunt Longtime member, Dave Auten, and Laveen Baptist Church would like to thank all the AzPDC members that came out to volunteer. Club members went out to help make the event fun as church members learned how to shoot over dogs. Carlos, David Page, Tommy Chapa, Eric Ersland, Cole Graham

5 Volunteer Hunt

One brisk September morning, the week before TOC, I left Flagstaff at 5:15 a.m. with an Egg McMuffin in one hand and a XL black coffee in the other.

6 Flash from the Past Quite often my work requires me to make 8:00 a.m. meetings in Phoenix. I used to stay overnight before the meetings, but with the addition of little Isabel I have started leaving early in the mornings. One brisk September morning, the week before TOC, I left Flagstaff at 5:15 a.m. with an Egg McMuffin in one hand and a XL black coffee in the other. On the way down some coworkers and I were discussing bird dogs and the trials. At about Bloody Basin the coffee kicked in and I pulled off the interstate. I jumped down in the ditch and looked up and this vintage AZPDC sign was staring me in the face, attached to right of way fence. I grabbed the sign to bring it back to its home in AZPDC trailer! Nate Reisner

7 2017 Banquet Sponsors A great many thanks to all our sponsors and generous donors. There were several individuals who took the time to support our club.

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