{"id":128676,"date":"2009-12-31T17:25:42","date_gmt":"2009-12-31T22:25:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/northwestvoices\/2010656124_humanesocietycommendsfishandwildlifeforswiftelkaction.html?syndication=rss"},"modified":"2009-12-31T17:25:42","modified_gmt":"2009-12-31T22:25:42","slug":"humane-society-commends-fish-and-wildlife-for-swift-elk-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/128676","title":{"rendered":"Humane Society commends Fish and Wildlife for swift elk action"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Event serves as reminder to hunting community<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Humane Society of the United States, and its 225,000 members in Washington state, commends the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife for its swift response to the brutal wounding and killing of seven elk in Skagit County [\u201cElk hunt ends after herd was cornered, 7 killed,\u201d Seattletimes.com, Local News, Dec. 29].<\/p>\n<p>Within hours of The Seattle Times running the story, the commission issued an emergency closure for elk hunting in the area. The actions of the bow hunters were reported as legal, but were plainly unsporting, cruel and inhumane, as live elk were spotted with serious wounds<\/p>\n<p>While this case was the result of both hunter irresponsibility and unfortunate circumstance, it is undoubtedly a black eye for the hunting community.<\/p>\n<p>It should serve as a reminder to those who consider themselves to be sportsmen that the public demands that they act in an appropriate and considerate manner when in the field.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014 Dan Paul, Washington State Humane Society director, Seattle<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Event serves as reminder to hunting community The Humane Society of the United States, and its 225,000 members in Washington state, commends the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife for its swift response to the brutal wounding and killing of seven elk in Skagit County [\u201cElk hunt ends after herd was cornered, 7 killed,\u201d Seattletimes.com, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128676\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}