Well just left my folks place after hanging out with them for awhile. Dad is well into Alzheimer's at an early age so stop by most days. Please don't feel sorry or any of that shit.... its life and well your dealt a hand and you play the cards you've been given and enjoy the game for as long as it lasts.
The reason I bring it up is that like a child he tends to say or ask things that peel back the Onion layers of bullshit we surround ourselves with down to basic truths. In this case we were talking not surprisingly:;:howdy about deer hunting down on the Rock. But as we talked he became quite confused on the management practices that are going on down there. What confused him was the fact that the reservation DNR has been running a highly restricted season for a several years now... with no does taken and whitetails having to have at least six points and mule deer having to have 8 to be legal. Well at the same time the North Dakota Game and Fish Department is running something along the lines of slash and burn or scorched earth policy in the same area.
He asked why this was and I quickly pointed out the occurrence of CWD in that area. At which point he said so its killed a lot of deer? I said no there's never actually been a confirmed fatality. He is an asked how they know it was there, I said it had shown up in four samples the game and fish it taken over the years in that unit.
........he then looked at me and said "I don't understand" and I looked at him and said you know what neither do I!
I grew up in Jamestown till I was 12 and spent many days up on the Spirit Lake nation in the 80's and it was just a known reality that you would not see much for wildlife while on the rez. So I still find it vary odd in my mind to watch as the Standing Rock Game and Fish make the NDGF look like a bunch of greedy assholes! We all know why the tag numbers are as high as they are down there and it sure the hell has nothing to do with CWD! Making posts like I have over the last 48 hours are actually extremely counterproductive for me simply because Standing Rock is becoming far too famous far too fast nationally(all 600 tags sold out this year in under a hour starting at midnight) and as a guy living in a trailer I won't be able to make the monetary jump the tag price is likely to take soon enough but still can't hold my tongue (nothing new to anybody's who has ever met me) because watching two separate DNR's operate two completely different ways side by side in the exact same spot has show me how piss poorly things can be done even after one side claims to have learned its lesson from last time!
Sorry about the rant but its just so pathetic that a man that can't even find his own garage can still find the bullshit in the North Dakota Game and Fish Department!
The reason I bring it up is that like a child he tends to say or ask things that peel back the Onion layers of bullshit we surround ourselves with down to basic truths. In this case we were talking not surprisingly:;:howdy about deer hunting down on the Rock. But as we talked he became quite confused on the management practices that are going on down there. What confused him was the fact that the reservation DNR has been running a highly restricted season for a several years now... with no does taken and whitetails having to have at least six points and mule deer having to have 8 to be legal. Well at the same time the North Dakota Game and Fish Department is running something along the lines of slash and burn or scorched earth policy in the same area.
He asked why this was and I quickly pointed out the occurrence of CWD in that area. At which point he said so its killed a lot of deer? I said no there's never actually been a confirmed fatality. He is an asked how they know it was there, I said it had shown up in four samples the game and fish it taken over the years in that unit.
........he then looked at me and said "I don't understand" and I looked at him and said you know what neither do I!
I grew up in Jamestown till I was 12 and spent many days up on the Spirit Lake nation in the 80's and it was just a known reality that you would not see much for wildlife while on the rez. So I still find it vary odd in my mind to watch as the Standing Rock Game and Fish make the NDGF look like a bunch of greedy assholes! We all know why the tag numbers are as high as they are down there and it sure the hell has nothing to do with CWD! Making posts like I have over the last 48 hours are actually extremely counterproductive for me simply because Standing Rock is becoming far too famous far too fast nationally(all 600 tags sold out this year in under a hour starting at midnight) and as a guy living in a trailer I won't be able to make the monetary jump the tag price is likely to take soon enough but still can't hold my tongue (nothing new to anybody's who has ever met me) because watching two separate DNR's operate two completely different ways side by side in the exact same spot has show me how piss poorly things can be done even after one side claims to have learned its lesson from last time!
Sorry about the rant but its just so pathetic that a man that can't even find his own garage can still find the bullshit in the North Dakota Game and Fish Department!
