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Posted by bushrat on Jan 31 2006
375,
Never got an email from you. A lot of us are more involved in things than you probably realize. Certainly agree that we should become involved if we feel strongly about it. You and I are on opposite poles, I think, as to what should be done, and how. A lot of the new proposals really tick me off, anger me, disappoint me, and really just make me want to crawl in a hole and forget there even is an outside world where politician-appointed board members may decide the future of hunting in Alaska. I'm fairly certain I'd love most of the proposals you hate, and vice versa. Intensive Management Law on the whole will in my opinion eventually hurt us all and hurt hunting. We try to say that the aerial wolf control isn't "hunting" (and it isn't) and that we should distance ourselves from saying it and others using it (it's "aerial shooting" really or "aerial control") and yet all these proposals on the books for things like "same-day airborne hunting" of grizzlies, "hunting" of wolves and bears from snowmachines...in the end it just brings hunting down. Hunters are killing hunting. That's the truth of it, the way I see it. The only possible way Intensive Management objectives will ever be met and sustained is with continual predator control of wolves and bears. I just don't see that as a good viable option for us. Pretty soon, "aerial shooting" of wolves really will be "hunting" from an airplane in the mind of the public. "Same day airborne hunting" of bears, same thing. "Hunting" wolves and bears from a snowmachine, running them down...ah yes, all part of "hunting." You can have it--but I will continue to denounce it. Right now some are trying to say that these are just temporary drastic measures we need to use to solve the dilemma of not enough moose and caribou. But seriously looking at, and seeing the new proposals for 2006-1011 predator control in other units, and even in the same units we now have predator control going on...it seems clear that we're going to put ourselves in a place where all these programs are continuously ongoing in one form or another. Some say, "Great!" Others, like me, say...well I can't say it here.
So what is the proposal # you are concerned with <grin>?
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