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You want natural you say? OK
Posted by Brian Richardson on Feb 02 2006
You want natural you say?
OK:
#1 Get up in that stand of yours… ground station, blind whatever WITH NO BAIT and observe the natural behavior in natural habitat!
#2 The closest thing matter-of-fact to natural behavior or instinct in natural habitat you will ever discover by baiting is to be insistent, persistent, and consistent on familiar everyday food groups in the wild SUCH AS: watching over a patch (like berries), observing common feeding grounds like Salmon streams, using stimulating hormones and other enticing “scents”, hanging out on a carcass of a wild animal dead/dying of natural origin, or that you may have dispatched in the field!
Many do “bait” this way & I find no ethical complexities with this approach.
#3 Because baiting is legal does not make various modus operandi “viable and ethical”. In my post I am not slamming you personally or baiters universally. If you are in the mainstream indolent bunch so be it that you take it to heart and perform in this kind of behavior… I do not act contrite for stepping these bounds on my points. In turn, you may be one heck of a good guy, but know full well I’m certainly no granola on the opposite side of the fences for understanding and enjoyment of Alaska’s hunting and fishing opportunities.
Here is a careless hitherto thoughtless quote tho’ & not sure why a guy purportedly so aware of the Natural Environment would even say this:
QUOTE: Walt Denali NP! That is a joke! That is a glorified zoo! Tell me a place where wolves lay in the road and bears walk along with the bus? That is a joke in my book. There is nothing natural going on there at all. That is a prime example of nature that is humanized!
I have lived in Alaska all my life. Home as a kid was in the mountains… 3 miles one way back & forth to the school bus stop. I grew up running remote rivers, trekking, flying, skiing, hunting and fishing. Today make a living very happily doing the same Statewide in Alaska’s National Parks, Preserves (also a land owner in a Preserve), Monuments and so on. To call any of Alaska’s NPs a joke is utterly absurd and slow on the uptake. Kinda like the farmer who observed the fly in his cow’s ear and later finding a fly in the milk – in one ear out the utter!
To use your “wolves lay in the road and bears walk along with the bus”… I must question what you think of other grand tracts of land management like Katmai or the Oil Patch on the North Slope (work or have worked on both ends of the spectrum) Where the Bears, Wolves and Foxes… Moose, Caribou or ground squirrel do just that along the roads for vehicles and along the rivers for boaters, photographers or fishermen! I say Kudos to both the National Parks System who provides me with permission and more than likely the most environmentally attentive oil patch on the planet. Since you singled out Denali - I will tell you that off the beaten track it is still very much the same environment and habitat. Worth mention I have found old way-outdated brass in Denali recording hunter’s pasts that are now gated by park boarders.
To sustain my position on many baiting practices and correlate this with my Parks perspective… (I can deliver!)
I test (yes challenge you) with a camera (not a gun, no killing, or thinning out game talk here – think catch and release hunting) take 4 or 5 day float trip with me (I’ll even quote you a special local Alaskan, family, and forum deal) to Katmai National Park between the last week of July into the first three weeks of August. Our trip will be in pristine, natural habitat. The recurrent/renewable, ecological bait source will be the continuous scarlet stripe of Red Salmon spawning the river. Bears will be in peak of their habitual, seasonal pilgrimage to their renewable natural food resources. Our road is the waterway. I will assure more Bear than you have ever been around or your $$$ back! (Unless in fact you guide trips there as well.) This is a No Joke one time offer – My guarantee!
This is/has been a fire back and forth discussion for everyone and a heated thread. I am making this offer to you personally and professionally to open people’s eyes of understandings and to entertain gainful perspectives. I am not an all out authority by a number of standards or values – However… my BS is actually a degree in this stuff and my professional know-how translates from playing as a kid to leading trips in the outdoors of Alaska all over the State.
Brian Richardson
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