Interesting info on Alaska hunting heritage

fred slyfield

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Some interesting info on the latest attacks by the all knowing liberal Hollywood types and what a group of Alaskans are doing to protect their way of life.

Looks like Ashley Judd knows whats best for us, Perhaps if her half sister ate a little more "natural" she wouldn't have her talking scale saying "what the S##%$
when she stepped on it!!!

http://defendersofwildfood.org/
 
My 2 cents worth is that I think the hollywood advocats are starting to realize the contanaments found in the food sold to the public could be whats causing bad health problems in the U S OF A and are now looking for food that has been raised on natural grasses and so forth.For example ,when my wife roasts a wild turkey [That I shot in the wild]in the oven our two cats will sit in front of the oven waiting for the bird to get'r done so they can have some bits and pieces and boy when they do there eating and growling that its so good [nature grown] but when she cooks a store bought turkey [pen raised butter ball] there no where to be found see what I mean they can smell the differance in healthy birds, same goes for cooking wild ducks but now they have to compete with Buster my yellow lab.Thats what I think anyway.Cas
 
This is one of the groups behind the Defenders of Wild Food site - Sportsmen for Fish and Wildlife - which is a national organization with various state chapters. If you donate to the site it goes to Sportsmen for Habitat - Alaska Inc. I thought it was funny that their heading said it was a national organization and true enough it is associated with a national organization.

http://www.sfwalaska.org/

And speaking of Alaskan politics as they relate to wildlife management and the SFW/SFH Alaska chapters the poster of this on the Nat Geo forum has an opinion about game management in AK now being political thanks to Palin. What he does not realize is that game managment in AK has been a political game since it was a Territory and that that politial game was one of many reasons statehood was pushed for and why game management is part of the state constitution and not just some laws thought of later on.
http://forums.ngm.com/forums/t/8240.aspx

Some of the great misconceptions about game in AK is that there are animals everywhere, afterall we do have caribou herds in the millions right? That may be true but those herds are located in very remote areas of the state with limited access and human population. There are places up here where if you see one moose in a summer you are lucky. If you see more than 10 caribou you are very very lucky. Most of the state has limited habitat that does not support high density wildgame populations. There are no farmers up here growing felt leaf willow or lichens that the moose and caribou can feed off of like whitetails and corn/alfalfa/beans/clover in the states. The best way to create habitat for moose is to let forest fires burn so that willows and young birch come back as ground cover. The best way to create habitat for caribou is to not let their population get so big that they over graze their traditional food sources.

Of course after reading the Nat Geo post and seeing just who is behind the SFH and the Defenders of Wild Food all I can say is not much of the donations will go towards habitat. The majority of the money will go towards a political agenda to influence the Board of Game or other political processes. By the way, they were successful last week in getting snares and helicopters allowed for bear hunting in Unit 16 across the Inlet from Anchorage. The unit has few landing areas for small planes making access difficult so they are allowing helicopters for transportation into the area for bear hunting. Unit 16 is a prime moose breeding area and bears take a lot of calves in the spring keeping the population of moose below the numbers that the habitat will support for game harvest. Last year they allowed a fairly liberal black bear season and baiting system for the area, but it was not very successful due to limited accessibility.

Snare Bear will be a new Care Bear doll soon, and used to enrage the urban veggy soy eating elite against AK. OR they will be using the Charly Don't Surf / I Love the Smell of Napalm in the Morning huey assalt scene to depict the eventual slaughter of the bears by yahoos in helicopters.

http://www.alaskadispatch.com/tundra-talk/9-talk-of-the-tundra/970--states-predator-kills-are-out-of-control
Here is another opinion on last weeks BoG meeting in Anchorage.

What we Alaskans really need to do is follow the Humane Society desires and transport our predators to areas where they are needed rather than kill them. The HSUS supports moving deer from over populated areas to areas where they are not overpopulated. I think relocating the 150 or so wolves taken a year by the aerial predator control system into the several over populated deer areas on the east coast would be a much better plan. So what if a few humans, livestock or pets get killed each year - its natures way afterall. Rather than ask us not to kill them they should be supporting their living and acting on their instincts in areas that they used to live in eating pray they they used to feed on anyway. Its the natural balance afterall. I know you east coast guys are complaining about the deer eating your rose bushes and the coyotes eating your pets but I am telling you that wolves are the answer to both of those problems. After wolves were reintroduced to Yellow Stone the coyote population dropped park wide as did the elk and deer populations. So it will work in NJ and other deer rich places.

There is also a bonus to the wolves in your back yard. When they howl at night your women folk curl up real close to you in bed and tremble in fear. Brings back all kinds of beneficial evolutionary responses.
 
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