VICTORY
A no vote was recommended.
Results:
Yes: 31%
No: 69%
CITIZENS’ INITIATIVE — You can help determine the outcome on this important animal protection initiative. Please vote! And please share this information with your relatives and friends so that they can be prepared when they enter the ballot box to vote.
In 2004, Governor Granholm signed HB 5029 into law (Public Act 160) allowing the shooting of mourning doves in Michigan for the first time in nearly a century. In response to this legislation, nearly 5,000 volunteers gathered signatures to place a referendum on the ballot to reject P.A. 160 and restore the dove shooting ban.
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The hunting of doves serves no conservation or wildlife management purpose. Doves are not over-populated, they are not predators, and they do not destroy crops of other foliage. Doves are shot for target practice — not for food. There already are 40 game bird species in Michigan and there is no reason to add doves to the list. Doves have been protected in Michigan since 1905. Michigan is a breeding ground for doves, not just a pass-through state. As a result, the hunting of doves in Michigan could result in a dramatic drop in the number of birds that reach maturity and nest to reproduce.
Sponsor: Committee to Restore the Dove Shooting Ban
For details:
Committee to Restore the Dove Shooting Ban
P.O. Box 81183
Lansing, MI 48908
517-321-DOVE
contact@stopshootingdoves.org
www.stopshootingdoves.org/index.shtml
To view an animated movie by the Committee, about the Morning Dove initiative, go to www.DaveTheDove.com.