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Saturday, May 13, 2006
By Bud Sonnentag Greetings! I come before this commission for two purposes. First, to put the State of Nevada, NDOW, the Board of Commissioners and the Attorney General’s Office on notice. To wit, the wildlife statutes of this state are being grossly violated today as they were 41 years ago. Second, I am here to apprise everyone in this room of this past and present misfeasance and malfeasance by establishing a public record at this meeting.
To the point: The mountain lion’s reclassification on May 22, 1965 was rendered invalid by deputy Attorney general Peter Breen on December 12, 1967 by case number 472.From that day forward, the officers of your agencies have sought to cover it up and hide it from the hunter sportsmen of Nevada by deceitfully manipulating the Nevada statutes to reflect that the mountain lion is a game animal when it is in fact an unprotected predator by law as I speak. I go on record before this commission and this state that the mountain lion has always been an unprotected predator in Nevada. I challenge the officers in this room and this state to prove to the sportsmen beyond any shadow of a doubt that what I accuse you of is false. The ramification of your misfeasance is gross negligence and is inexcusable. All mountain lion licenses and tags that you have sold for 41 years are null and void. For this reason the funds derived from the sales of those licenses and tags must be paid back to both the hunter sportsmen as well as the Pittman Robertson funds. This you will do. Furthermore, everyone who has been cited or arrested (falsely) or prosecuted for a mountain lion violation whether they be a resident of Nevada or a non resident, has just cause to sue the officers of NDOW, the Board of Wildlife Commissioners and the Attorney General’s office in this state. I intend to immediately go public, not only in this state, but nationwide to expose this deliberate 41 year cover-up to the hunter sportsmen. It is extremely important sportsmen must know how vile and corrupt our state and federal wildlife agencies have become and what sportsmen are faced with in the future throughout our nation. There are two people in this room who are more guilty than all others because of their long term employment in NDOW. They are director Terry Crawforth and Wildlife Commissioner and retired biologist Jim Jeffress. I also go on record accusing Jim Jeffress and the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service of breaking the Nevada open meeting law at the 1976 Mountain Lion Workshop. Prove to the Nevada sportsmen that you did not break these laws. Nevada with the help of the U.S .Fish & Wildlife Service was the first state in the union to deceitfully and falsely classify the mountain lion as a game animal. You set this state and nation on a course of unprecedented wildlife, livestock and human destruction by your deliberate 41 year cover-up from which there may very well be no physical, monetary, or just recovery. Finally, I demand that NDOW and the Board of Wildlife Commissioners explain this travesty of so-called wildlife management they have created to all the sportsmen of this state and nation. In the name of conservation…for God’s sake, be truthful for once in your lives. I await your speedy response. I am requesting this testimony in its entirety be included in the minutes of this meeting. Thank you for your time. Bud Sonnentag PO Box 72 Gabbs, Nevada 89409
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