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Clarke, emphasizing that the center is in no way opposed to legal hunting of wildlife, or to the hunters who shot game for sport. "But those who deliberately shoot an ospry, an owl, a hawk or some other protected species aren’t hunters. It’s people in the woods with guns and not sportsmen doing this," he maintained.
"We're creating born-again conservationists."
Hunters have a stake, however, in what the center is trying to achieve, particularly in its efforts to educate the public, Clarke believes. “Evervtime another animal is maliciously or illegally shot and a landowner posts his property against hunting, the sportsmen lose."
He’s hoping that sportsmen and other conservationists will do more than give moral support to the center's programs, veterinary and educational. He hopes that support will take the more tangible form of monetary contributions. “We need $3,000 a month to operate and right now, we can’t meet next months’ payroll. One hundred percent of those dollars go to veterinary services and educational programs. We have no overhead except our phone bill,” Clarke reported. “We have the facility, all the equipment we need. Now we’re turning to the public for gas to run the machine.”
Clarke hopes to find volunteers to serve on a board of advisors for the center — a fund raising, promotional and advisory board. There’s one qualification for membership. “Each of them must pledge to help us raise $3,000.”
Warner Is Chairman
Already, Virginia Senator John Warner has accepted an invitation to serve as chairman of that board. “I consider the work of the cen
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