Dear Friend,

On behalf of the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife, I am sending you this email today to inform you of an exciting new endeavor the Department has undertaken with the Wildlife Research Foundation.

We urge you to visit the Foundation’s new website by clicking here. A camera has been placed in a bear den in northern Maine, providing 24/7 streaming of one of our radio collared bears, “Lugnut” who birthed two cubs on January 16. This is the first time a live streaming video has been placed in a wild Maine Black Bear den.

The website provides us with an opportunity to share Lugnut’s world and watch her as she raises her cubs. You will also see videos of our bears “Spunky” and “Nell” and as the project develops, we will follow those bears and others.

There are videos that tell the story of the north Maine woods, its habitat, including how the camera was installed in the den. Fascinating stuff.

The video in Lugnut’s den provides not only a unique visual, but audio as well; the two cubs (yet un-named) often squeal and protest quite loudly as they adjust to life in the den.

The Foundation’s mission statement states their goal is to provide funds and support to the scientific community and wildlife managers to enhance wildlife and habitat research and inform and educate the general public concerning the value and necessity of wildlife research.

The bear cam allows us to do that in a fun and exciting way!

The Foundation approached the Department with this unique opportunity and we are pleased to work with them to educate the public on Maine’s Black Bear population and urge donations to the Department’s wildlife research projects. Maine is fortunate to have two of the most well respected bear biologists in the nation, Randy Cross and Jen Vashon, and I know the website will be an effective and exciting tool to educate people around the world about Maine’s Black Bears.

The website has become popular right out of the gate. It has been live for just two weeks, and has had over 15,000 visitors.

We encourage you to share this email and the link to the website with your family, friends and colleagues, urging them to follow the story of Lugnut and her cubs and to also support the work of the Foundation and Maine’s wildlife research projects.

Thank you very much and I hope you will follow Lugnut’s journey as I will on a daily basis!

Sincerely,

Chandler E. Woodcock
Commissioner
Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife

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.

More than likely the following video was a propaganda tool used against the threats of communism back during a time when communism was seen as a bad thing. The person who presents this cartoon calls this a prediction of our future 50 years ago. I’m not so sure it was all that. However, if you take the time to read the comments on YouTube, where I got the embed link, you gain a more accurate image of what really has happened. Many of those commenting, in their well planned out ignorance, do not see communism as a bad thing but view capitalism as the source of our problems. While many of the “losses” portrayed in the cartoon have come to reality, it was, of course, the evils of capitalism that made it so.

So, it appears that American’s didn’t necessarily need the entire bottle of “ISM” that would result in their losses of freedom but only to see the bottle as nothing to be concerned with.

Interesting, all the same.