The other day on another website a person asked why we can’t leave our wildlife management up to the “experts” we hire to run our fish and game departments? The same person actually implied that seeking public input on some management decisions was not in the best interest of caring for our wildlife.

I briefly responded by saying that if this person expected our “experts” to be managing our game species for surplus harvest and hunting and fishing opportunities without public input, he was woefully wrong. I pointed out that it was my opinion that many fish and game departments across America are now filled with biologists who are the product of wildlife indoctrination void of any real science and heavily laced with idealistic garbage. As would be expected, I was scoffed at.

It’s difficult to get into the minds of these wildlife biologists in charge of the welfare of game and still too many aren’t buying into the prospects that a degree in wildlife biology consists mostly of idealism spurned from private agendas. So, perhaps it takes something a bit more blatant to wake up a few more people as to what our fish and game departments are becoming.

Nobody really caught on when state’s fish and game departments changed their names to fish and wildlife departments. Still fewer realized that the money being paid to these departments from license holders was being eagerly siphoned away into non game programs. The transformation has taken a long time through incremental steps until we’ve gotten to the point now where our fish and game departments are partnering up with extreme, radical, anti-hunting, fringe groups in the name of promoting animal welfare.

In case you missed it, the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, that same entity that is supposed to be looking out for the hunters, trappers and fishermen who pay their salaries, has teamed up the the Humane Society of the United States in order to combine financial resources for a program to educate people to leave wildlife alone. HOW SWEET!

I’ve thought this over considerably. I’ve tried to justify this move from any angle I can come up with. I’ve raised a lot of questions with very few answers. There is just one question that I think if I could get answered would pretty much take care of the rest. IS THE WISCONSIN DNR OUT OF THEIR FREAKIN MINDS?

It isn’t like they’ve decided to team up with the local knitting club or the PTA. Perhaps next to the Animal Liberation Front, the HSUS is the most radical, anti-hunting, anti-fishing, anti-trapping, anti-pet owning, anti-farm animal group that exists. This organization has cost hunters and fishermen millions of dollars fighting lawsuits aimed at ending our sport. Who’s the pimp and who’s the whore?

Teaming up with HSUS by the WDNR is no different than if they had taken a long dagger and stuck in the back of every hunter, fisherman and trapper in that state. This isn’t a “questionable” decision. This is the dumbest thing any fish and game department could do. This is blatant stupidity, a clear reflection of the idealistic indoctrination these so-called biologist are getting from college.

Randy Stark is the Chief Warden for the WDNR. Not surprising, he is a graduate of the National Conservation Leadership Institute at Harvard University (this bolsters my case) and stands in support of this coalition between DNR and HSUS. Read some of the things this guy says.

“But our conservation objectives are unchanged. This is an opportunity to expand our network and work with a new partner on a common interest.”

“This isn’t going to change our stance on hunting, trapping or wolf management,” said Stark, a chief proponent of the Mentored Hunting Bill. “It’s our job to do what’s in the best interest of conservation, and sometimes that means walking across that bridge.”

Stark said the partnership will help the DNR get more air time for the campaign in a time of restricted budgets and to distribute it to a larger, new audience in the HSUS membership.

If the message reaches more people, the savings in staff time and money are potentially huge, Stark said.

“Granted, this is different than any relationship we’ve had in the past,” Stark said. “But these are new times and require new thinking.”

“I feel if we can bring in a new group like this on a shared interest, without compromising our goals or beliefs, we’ll be better off down the road.”

I’ll ask again, ARE THESE PEOPLE OUT OF THEIR FREAKIN MINDS? What a bunch of idealistic, lying bastards!

He says these are “new times” that require “new thinking”, which goes back to my point right from the very beginning. These fools are being fed this crap right in school and are now bringing it with them to their jobs and into the field.

But what are we to expect? We now have a president who believes that if he brings the most anti-American group into a partnership with him, things will be better. This is more of that “new times” and “new thinking”.

So, I rest my case in the point I was trying to make before to the person on another website. You want guys like Randy Stark and the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources deciding exclusively and unchecked what’s in the best interest of your wildlife management?

Tom Remington

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