AngC
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My topic was supposed to be:
Wolves and Bears and Guns, Oh My! (but I finger-fumbled it and hit enter by mistake.)
So... I was reading that a half dozen of the reintroduced wolves have been spotted in Northern California. Good. I hope they wander on down to San Francisco and eat a couple lap-dogs or cats or some such. Anyway, reading about the wolves inspired me to check out the status of the grizzly bear reintroduction.
Here in Washington state, they want to reintroduce grizzlies. I think grizzly bears are pretty nifty. I just don't want them around our little horses (or me, for that matter.) I gotta' admit I'm a little nervous, because they want to reintroduce the cute little bears in the North Cascade mountains. I live in the foothills. It's not clear precisely where they're going to reintroduce the bears; hopefully further north. And I guess I shouldn't be nervous, because somehow they're only going to pick bears with "good" temperaments (???) And surely the bears will stay where they're released.
Chris Servheen (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service) says that "They're very inefficient predators" and that "...grizzly bears eat grass, berries, insects and the meat of dead animals. They are not good hunters." I guess he didn't read that article at the National Park Services website that says: "...mostly elk and bison, comprise a substantial portion of a grizzly bear's diet. Grizzly bears feed on ungulates primarily as winter-killed and wolf-killed carrion but also through predation on elk calves..." and "...male grizzly bears also prey on adult bison during early spring."
Now I probably don't know nothing about nothing, but I've seen a peaceful adult bison in a pen on the reservation near Moise, MT and that animal was formidable. ...I wouldn't want to tick him off.
So to work in the "guns" part of my topic. So for all those liberals (like for instance the ones down there in Seattle, that have a freak fit if a measly coyote wanders through their neighborhood) that don't want me to have any firearms, I have a really great idea.... instead of reintroducing the grizzlies into the Cascades, I think they should set all those nice, friendly bears loose in downtown Seattle. Then they could pay their 5 cent per bullet tax and work on their aim or perhaps just give the nice bears a big hug.
...end of rant.
oh, except I forgot to mention that your National Park Service is spending a half a million dollars-plus to study this issue.
Wolves and Bears and Guns, Oh My! (but I finger-fumbled it and hit enter by mistake.)
So... I was reading that a half dozen of the reintroduced wolves have been spotted in Northern California. Good. I hope they wander on down to San Francisco and eat a couple lap-dogs or cats or some such. Anyway, reading about the wolves inspired me to check out the status of the grizzly bear reintroduction.
Here in Washington state, they want to reintroduce grizzlies. I think grizzly bears are pretty nifty. I just don't want them around our little horses (or me, for that matter.) I gotta' admit I'm a little nervous, because they want to reintroduce the cute little bears in the North Cascade mountains. I live in the foothills. It's not clear precisely where they're going to reintroduce the bears; hopefully further north. And I guess I shouldn't be nervous, because somehow they're only going to pick bears with "good" temperaments (???) And surely the bears will stay where they're released.
Chris Servheen (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service) says that "They're very inefficient predators" and that "...grizzly bears eat grass, berries, insects and the meat of dead animals. They are not good hunters." I guess he didn't read that article at the National Park Services website that says: "...mostly elk and bison, comprise a substantial portion of a grizzly bear's diet. Grizzly bears feed on ungulates primarily as winter-killed and wolf-killed carrion but also through predation on elk calves..." and "...male grizzly bears also prey on adult bison during early spring."
Now I probably don't know nothing about nothing, but I've seen a peaceful adult bison in a pen on the reservation near Moise, MT and that animal was formidable. ...I wouldn't want to tick him off.
So to work in the "guns" part of my topic. So for all those liberals (like for instance the ones down there in Seattle, that have a freak fit if a measly coyote wanders through their neighborhood) that don't want me to have any firearms, I have a really great idea.... instead of reintroducing the grizzlies into the Cascades, I think they should set all those nice, friendly bears loose in downtown Seattle. Then they could pay their 5 cent per bullet tax and work on their aim or perhaps just give the nice bears a big hug.
...end of rant.
oh, except I forgot to mention that your National Park Service is spending a half a million dollars-plus to study this issue.
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