Okay! Here’s the topic of the day. I want to see this debated til there is no end. I’m still gathering all the information in order to write my own story, but it appears that Don Peay, founder of Sportsmen for Fish and Wildlife, has come out and stated that the North American Model for Wildlife Conservation is socialism and hunting needs to be privatized.
Peay, who stressed that the Utah chapter isn’t trying to push its view in Alaska or even with the Alaska chapter, said it’s time to revisit the widely accepted principle in the United States and Canada that game is a public resource. Peay described that egalitarian doctrine, found in Alaska’s state constitution and laws throughout the West, as “socialism.” It offers no economic incentive for landowners to kill predators, improve big game habitat and even provide food and water for target species.
You must read the entire article for context.
Personally, I think there is a lot of shallow thinking and ignorance surrounding this topic and the use of the word socialism has been foisted for emotional reaction, which it appears Peay has gotten.
So let’s hear it. Read the article and then let’s hear the ups and downs of a “public resource” versus “private resource”, the models in the true and intended sense and what things influence the administration of those models.
Have at it!
Via the “Critter News”, comes a report of sick human beings, so far removed from reality, eternally focused on sparing every life of a wolf regardless of the cost of doing so, even if that cost involves human life, have decided to boycott the movie, “The Grey”.
The movie is about a group that survives a plane crash in a remote part of Alaska and their biggest obstacle to surviving is dealing with a pack of wild grey wolves. The perverse wolf worshipers object to how the movie portrays wolves. Wendy Keefover, of WildEarth Guardians, an extreme radical animal rights group that places the life of animals over that of humans, says of her venerated killing machines: “You know wolves are expressive, intelligent and emotive beings, and the crisis is not wolves killing people, but literally wolves being wiped out.”
In an attempt to put things into perspective for rational thinking people, a publicist for the promotion of the movie says: “But just like ‘Jaws’ and ‘Little Red Riding Hood,”The Grey’ is a work of entertainment.”
Perverse animal worship to these extremes appears to me to be some form of a neurotic disorder that blocks the ability of a person’s brain from rational thinking, denying them a very basic understanding between what is real and what is fantasy. In this case, they obviously cannot understand the simple concept of visual entertainment.
Photo by Al Remington
Or perhaps some of you who remember would like to be taken down memory lane with a bit of the Hollies singing Bus Stop.
And here are the lyrics for you die hards:
Bus stop, wet day, she’s there, I say
Please share my umbrella
Bus stop, bus goes, she stays, love grows
Under my umbrella
All that summer we enjoyed it
Wind and rain and shine
That umbrella, we employed it
By August, she was mine
Every morning I would see her waiting at the stop
Sometimes she’d shopped and she would show me what she bought
Other people stared as if we were both quite insane
Someday my name and hers are going to be the same
That’s the way the whole thing started
Silly but it’s true
Thinkin’ of a sweet romance
Beginning in a queue
Came the sun the ice was melting
No more sheltering now
Nice to think that that umbrella
Led me to a vow
Every morning I would see her waiting at the stop
Sometimes she’d shopped and she would show me what she bought
Other people stared as if we were both quite insane
Someday my name and hers are going to be the same
Bus stop, wet day, she’s there, I say
Please share my umbrella
Bus stop, bus goes, she stays, love grows
Under my umbrella
All that summer we enjoyed it
Wind and rain and shine
That umbrella, we employed it
By August, she was mine
Photo by Al Remington
Do you get the feeling like these two guys are checking you out?
Photo by Al Remington
One New Year’s Day, the sun does sometimes shine in Alaska, even if for only a short time. Here’s proof.
Photo by Al Remington
Photo by Al Remington
I’m certainly no expert on identify wild animals, especially wild goats and sheep. The two photos below are from Alaska. The photo of the animal facing away from the camera, might be a mountain goat? and the other photo that shows a curl beginning on the horns I am presuming is a dall sheep.
Photo by Al Remington – Click on image to enlarge.
Photo by Al Remington – Click on image to enlarge.
Photo by Al Remington
Photo by Al Remington
