Tell the rest of the story. You know what I mean.PG was a sponsor of the fair chase folly back in 2008.
Tell the rest of the story. You know what I mean.PG was a sponsor of the fair chase folly back in 2008.
Tell the rest of the story. You know what I mean.
OK, Dave I sponsored the measure the first time, but not the second. I had different ideas than them, they did things the first time without talking to the rest of us. There were thirty sponsors and two or three did things without talking to anyone else. When the second time came around I was not interested. If they are just looking for tools without brains I wasn't it. Both sides of this issue are wrong, so pick your poison. This is about the seventh or eighth time I have explained this. I didn't tell the story again because I was getting sick of doing it. I think the first time was 2009. You see the truth is the year it went to a vote I didn't sponsor it. However, when the debates started I did get pushed to choosing a side and for me it couldn't be those who turned an American heritage into a business. Over the years I have watched humanity ( not picking on high fence operators you notice?) fail to many times and disease worries me. We failed bringing in carp, we failed bringing in grass seeds and leafy spurge with it, we failed when zebra mussels got into North America, we fail over and over and still think we control things well. It's a human failure not one single group.
Time after time we see disaster by moving species from one continent to another. Sometimes we see success so high that they only exist here and have gone extinct in their home country where people put more value on a dollar than sustained wildlife populations. We here often put the dollar first sacrificing our integrity in the process.
\Today it's the people pimping antlers scaring people.
Like these guys "pimping antlers"?
I wonder if plains is a member?
http://www.barnescountywildlifeclub.org/?page_id=464
Markets for Game are Eliminated
Current Status, Threats, and Challenges.— Commercial trade for reptiles, amphibians, and fish is thriving (Nanjappa and Conrad 2011). In addition, some game species that we would expect to fall under the principles of the Model are actively traded. Deer (Odocoileus spp.), elk, ring-necked pheasants (Phasianus colchicus), quail, chukar (Alectoris chukar), and more exotic wildlife species are commonly bought and sold (Freese and Trauger 2000). Related to wildlife markets are contests and tournaments common in rural areas of the country. Big Buck Contests, coyote hunts, crow (Corvus spp.) hunts, and numerous other commercial contests imply a market-based hunting situation. The sale of furbearers, seal (Phocidae) fur, antlers, reproduced antlers, and a variety of other wildlife parts needs to be considered in light of the principle that markets for wildlife are eliminated. A robust market for access to wildlife occurring across the U.S. and Canada exists in the form of leases, reserve permits and shooting preserves.
No one needs to panic. PG's people at the wildlife society won't be applying the "Model" against Big Buck Contests just yet. They have enough battles going, why open up another war on another front?
The only thing high fence has going for it is keeping the slobs out of the field. Its dissapointing there are so few real sportsmen around. .
. Their is a reason groups like the Safari Club International and others define fair chase for their members.
Your right laws were enacted, and do you know who asked for them? Sportsmen asked for them, not anti hunters, but responsible real conservationist hunters. Not irresponsible if it's legal it's ok crowd frightened when the market hunters said "we need to stick together". Today it's the people pimping antlers scaring people.