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Heritage Foundation: Global Warming in Wonderland and the Green PR Machine

Howard Rich: Jay Rockefeller Stands in the Way of Obama's Environmental End-Around

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ESPN: Will Obama End Recreational Fishing in Great Lakes, Coastal Waters?

Politico: Lisa Jackson, EPA, Defends Greenhouse Gas Regulations

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Can We Learn Something, Anything From Candice Berner’s Tragic Death?

It appears we are stuck on stupid when it comes to dealing with wild animals. Like a dangerous intersection, how many tragedies need to take place before someone figures out that having vehicles traveling toward each other from four different directions can be a potentially deadly circumstance? To avoid traffic fatalities we control the traffic.

Young Candice Berner died a tragic death, being mauled by wolves in a tiny remote village on the Kenai in Alaska. As calamitous as her death, the repetitive talking points still prevail; rare occurrence, can’t understand it, what did the victim do wrong, we must learn to live with predators, too many humans, it’s all our fault, etc.

People’s love for wild animals, much based on false information about the animal’s habits, have become so perverted it seems some are more interested in keeping these truths from the general public out of fear of tarnishing their precious image of a savage predator, at the price of a human life. It’s easy to blow off the event when it doesn’t directly affect you. For some it hit very close to home.

It’s time to move beyond fantasy land. How can environmentalists/animal lovers/anti-hunters expect people to “learn to live with wolves” when they refuse to allow the truth about their behavior to be presented? This is beyond disgusting.

Read this: “When Do Wolves Become Dangerous to Humans?” by Dr. Valerius Geist

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Central Florida Public Lands Osceola Turkey Hunt With Scott Ellis

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Milt’s Corner – Spoonbills And Storks

Milt Inman Photo

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Louisiana Firearms Freedom Act Introduced

Senator A.G. Crowe has introduced the Louisiana Firearms Freedom Act as SB 175, making Louisiana the 27th state to introduce an FFA.

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Dogs Most Likely Came From Middle Eastern Wolves

Or so says some in a latest report published in Nature.

Tom Remington

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International Effort To Grab Your Guns

For those interested, you may also want to read up on treaties and treaty law.

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Montana Conservation Projects to Receive RMEF Grants

MISSOULA, Mont. – Wildlife conservation projects in 11 Montana counties have been selected to receive grants from the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation in 2010.

The new RMEF funding, totaling $221,725, will affect Beaverhead, Broadwater, Flathead, Lewis and Clark, Madison, Meagher, Missoula, Park, Powder River, Powell and Rosebud counties.

“These grants are possible because of the successful banquets and fundraisers staged over the past year by our Montana volunteers, most of whom are elk hunters as well as devoted conservationists,” said David Allen, RMEF president and CEO. “Since 1984, our annual grants have helped complete 656 different projects in Montana with a combined value of more than $114 million.”

RMEF grants will help fund the following projects, listed by county:

Beaverhead County – Clear encroaching conifer and noxious weeds from 300 acres of sagebrush parks and aspen stands used by wintering elk herds in Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest.

Broadwater County – Treat 917 acres of noxious weeds to restore native grasses and forage for elk and other wildlife in the Elkhorns Wildlife Management Area; reconstruct fencing to control livestock and protect riparian habitat in the North Crow area of Helena National Forest; treat 2,000 acres of noxious weeds in the North Elkhorns area.

Flathead County – Use herbicide to treat noxious weeds and improve elk and deer forage on 200 acres at Lost Trail National Wildlife Refuge.

Lewis and Clark County – Enhance forage and transitional range for elk and mule deer by prescribe burning 650 acres, and thinning encroaching conifer on 350 acres, in the Alice Creek area of Helena National Forest.

Madison County – Treat up to 400 acres of noxious weeds to encourage native grasses and other vegetation used by foraging elk in the Madison Valley.

Meagher County – Restore aspen stands by thinning encroaching conifer on 131 acres, prescribe burning 159 acres, and installing 4.9 miles of fencing in the Sheep Creek area of Lewis and Clark National Forest.

Missoula County – Enhance native forage for elk by treating 160 acres of noxious weeds in the Boyer Ranch area.

Park County – Treat 300 acres of noxious weeds to improve native grasses and forage for elk in the Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness Area of Gallatin National Forest. This project is part of a long-term initiative to control weeds across the wilderness area including four counties in Wyoming (Carbon, Park, Stillwater and Sweetgrass counties).

Powder River County – Improve forage areas for elk and other wildlife by thinning 350 acres of encroaching conifer, and prescribe burning 1,500 acres of ponderosa pine stands, in Custer National Forest (also affects Rosebud County).

Powell County – Provide funding for a project that will allow the Seeley Lake Ranger District to take aggressive action against new infestations of noxious weeds, and treat weeds on 500 acres of elk habitat in 2010-11 at Lolo National Forest (also affects Missoula County); treat 1,146 acres of noxious weeds on BLM land in Marcum Mountain area; prescribe burn 700 acres of elk winter range on BLM lands.

Projects are selected for RMEF grants by a committee of volunteers and staff along with representatives from partnering organizations.

Partners for 2010 projects in Montana include Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, U.S. Forest Service, other agencies, corporations and landowners.

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The Great Reneger

Editor’s Note: While this video is mainly directed at President Barack Obama, it is my opinion that just about every politician in Washington can just as easily fit the bill.

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Video Update On Death Of Candice Berner

Editor’s Note – Near the end of the below video, the narrator makes a statement that is not even remotely accurate. She says that Berner’s killing by wolves was one of “so few documented in the world”. That is an outrageous statement that is simply not true.

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Tenth Amendment Push Backs Spreading Across America

Is this all a case of too little too late or are there any legal teeth in the growing actions of states all across the Union in passing legislation that in effect tells the federal government to take a hike?

On this very blog, I have been vigilant in posting information about states proposing, passing and signing legislation in attempts to nullify federal authority of gun control laws forced onto them. But this push back we are witness to is now reaching beyond the Second Amendment. States are passing bills declaring the federal government can’t force them to “buy into” federal run health care. Utah has effectively told the federal government it’s taking back some of it’s lands. Other states don’t want anything to do with federal ID cards, they’re ignoring federal marijuana laws, have put the feds on notice that their local police departments have more authority than they do and that National Guard troops can be recalled by states.

These are just some samples of a movement that has at least 26 states proposing, passing or signing “Firearms Freedom” bills that tell the federal government to back off. This spreading action is a pretty good indication that states are fed up with an overreaching federal government but will it do any good? More importantly does any of this hold any legal strength? The New York Times has more.

It is unfortunate that Americans have sat by essentially doing nothing while states’ rights have been usurped. It is obvious the stealing of rights has gone too far and some want to reclaim that power and sovereignty. Only time and years of litigation can answer many of the questions. The immediate affect might come at the polls in November.

Tom Remington

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No Meat Day In Michigan = No Brains Either

Declaring a day of no meat eating by the governor of Michigan is about equal to declaring a boycott on buying clothes for a day. Stuck on stupid, political leaders can’t figure out the difference between an agenda and an act to memorialize an occasion, a person or an event even if it hit them side the head.

Tom Remington

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Happy St. Patrick’s Day

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Comparing Wisconsin’s And Michigan’s Bear Management Programs. Concern Over Michigan Bear Population Numbers

Guest post by Rich Hare.

I have an update for you contrasting conditions leading to Wisconsin closing their bear season in 1985, and conditions in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula right now, in 2010.

Wisconsin’s bear season was closed in 1985 due to over harvest from 1981 through 1984. According to former Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources Wildlife Manager, Mike Gappa…biologists were concerned over the high percentage of bears 3 years of age and younger (48.5%) being harvested. Baits used for bear population census also identified a serious decline in the state’s bear numbers. They estimated the statewide population to be less than 7,000 bears. With full support from the Wisconsin Bear Hunters Association, WDNR went to the state legislature and got approval to close the bear season and revamp the state’s bear management program.

Contrast between Wisconsin in 1985 and Michigan in 2010 is alarming. Less than a year ago MDNRE estimated the statewide bear population to be about 19,000 including cubs. CCARE (Concerned Citizens Against Resource Exploitation…a pro hunting, fishing & trapping organization) received a letter from MDNRE’s lead fur bearer biologist, Adam Bump on 1/28/10 advising the statewide bear population had been revised down to 11,100 bears excluding cubs. The 11,100 was the estimate prior to the 2009 bear season. 2,026 bears were harvested in 2009…further reducing the estimate to 9,074 excluding cubs. Back in 1985 Wisconsin’s estimated statewide bear population was at about .5 bears per square mile. In 2010, Michigan’s estimated bear population in the Upper Peninsula, using the very generous number of 9,000 bears in the UP… figures out to be .5 bears per square mile. In Michigan’s Upper Peninsula the percentage of bears 3 years and younger being harvested is currently at 68.6%! Wisconsin’s DNR was alarmed when bears 3 and under was at 48.5%. To quote one of Wisconsin’s bear biologist’s, “that ought to throw up a red flag to somebody.” Yet, MDNRE’s Wildlife Division proposes issuing 12,375 kill tags for a bear population of 9,074 bears excluding cubs (cubs are not fair game in Michigan).

Concerned Michigan sportsmen need to contact the Natural Resources Commissioner representing their region and tell them to get back to managing the state’s natural resources using sound science.

Rich Hare
Ontonagon, Mi

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Obamafeld

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Planning My Future

I’m sure most of you don’t know that I am a closet “artist”. I am particularly fond of body art. For those not familiar with body art, picture a swarm of about 300 men and women, all naked taking turns painting each other…….all over. That’s my idea of body art. Tattoos are too permanent and most people don’t get naked to get a tattoo………do they?

I have had this inner welling of artistic power nagging at me since I first viewed body art at the age of about 15. So, you can imagine how elated I felt when I heard Speaker Nancy Pelosi say that if we pass this health care bill, people like me could quit their real jobs and become artists; pursue their dreams.

Although I haven’t stepped out yet and purchased enough supplies to paint up 300 or more naked bodies, I’m anxiously awaiting the day I can quit toiling over a real job and get everything I need in life for free. From that moment on, I’ll have no distractions and I can further my real passion as a body artist.

Isn’t America amazing?

Tom “Salvador” Remington

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