A big tanks to WildEarth Guradians for getting this going. It really is a huge waste of moeny, not to mention unethical.

Pursuant to the Right to Petition Government clause contained in the First Amendment of theU.S. Constitution,1 the Administrative Procedure Act (“APA”),2 and the implementing
regulations of the U.S. Department of the Interior (“DOI”), the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service(“USFWS”), the U.S. Department of Agriculture (“USDA”), the Animal and Plant Health
Inspection Service (“APHIS”), and Wildlife Services (“WS”), WildEarth Guardians(“Petitioner”) hereby files a petition to ban, through Executive Order and Final Administrative
Rulemaking, the airborne shooting of mammalian carnivores,3 commonly called “aerial gunning,” and poisoning of mammalian carnivores on federal public lands. Specifically, this
petition seeks:
(a) A ban on aerial gunning of wildlife by DOI and USDA officials and their agents;
(b) A ban of aerial gunning of wildlife on federal public lands administered by DOI and
USDA;
(c) A ban on poisoning of mammalian carnivores by DOI and USDA officials and their
agents; and
(d) A ban on poisoning mammalian carnivores on federal public lands administered by
the DOI and USDA.
We seek the ban based upon provisions provided by the U.S. Constitution, specifically the
Property Clause, Art. IV, § 3, and the Commerce Clause, Art. I § 8, cl. 3, as well as the Airborne
Hunting Act, 16 U.S.C. § 742j-l.
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Read the petition in PDF.