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Posted by Texkan on Dec 13 2005
Mr. Strahan,
I have read this forum on a few occasions, but have read where you have gotten some heat about your upcoming book. Apparently in this book, you mention specific places where to hunt in Alaska...specifically by float hunting. With all due respect, I find it difficult for anyone to be able to offer expertise on as many rivers as from what I understand what your book covers; I doubt no one has hunted all these rivers personally, but I stand to be wrong. Karen Jetmar's book offer's quite a bit of information of various rivers, but I think she has floated each personally.
Regardless, my experience of having favorite hunting areas published is not favorable. I had a special place I hunted for years, but once someone wrote about it.....it changed forever. I eventually quit going there because of the crowds. And this DEFINITELY happened because of writeups that were done by an outdoor writer....the difference was night and day in how many tried to hunt there.
I have purchase several of the Alaskan hunting books that one can obtain here...Tony Russ, Larry Bartlett, and many others; and other than glittering generalities, none mentioned detailed specifics on where to go. You mentioned how some others who have criticized you have done that with a hypocritical slant, as they have profited doing something similar. I do know that some of these individuals you are thinking try to cater to out of state hunters in deference to the fact that out of state hunters are less likely to return over and over to a given hunting area if they are directed on a non-guided hunt. Directing Alaskan residents pretty much declares that any good hunting area will eventually be made public simply by word of mouth. So, some attempts have been made to protect the popularity of certain areas, regardless to what you may realize.
But, I can tell you this: The best way to predict the impact of what your book does for a hunting region is to correlate your published words with similar type books for the fishing industry. I have several books on "where to go" for sport fishing in Alaska. And I can tell you this, that every place I have gone that has been stated in any one of those books has had an abundance of fishing presence. It is only common sense. "Build it, and they will come".
I recognize your efforts for trying to make a presence in the Alaskan outdoors industry. You have every right to try, and I certainly am not criticizing you for your attempts. But, as I consider myself fairly literate and have personally experienced the ramifications of the published word on a given outdoor resource, I think you truly underestimate the power of the printed word.
From what has been stated in the past, your book should undoubtedly contain information about the Bonasila and Dishna Rivers, where you have hunted before and do have personal knowledge. Again, I stand to be corrected if wrong.
Good luck in your endeavors.
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