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One thing though....
Posted by bushrat on Jan 05 2006
Bob, thanks for your take on this. Mucho appreciated. I do want to address one point, however: "Most of problems you are talking about comes from more population in the State of Alaska and more hunters in general. It is up to the hunter themselves to say, "someone else is already here" lets move a fair distance away."
More hunters in general. I couldn't agree more. And that's the whole problem in a nutshell. But I think that it is not only up to the hunter (often a non-resident who doesn't know and doesn't even care about the finer points of this stuff) to say "someone else is already here, let's move a fair distance away," but it's also up to the guy flying them in. It's also up to the transporter. Up to the hunt-planner as well. If we are to put all the blame on the hunter chartering the air transport, for example(and again, this is often a guy that doesn't know squat about the particular place he is hunting), and no blame or ethical restraint on the air-taxi operator, well I don't know if I buy that argument. And it doesnt' fit into the mold of the long-time air-taxi guys I know, who consider themselves part and parcel in the whole scheme of insuring sustained yields of wildlife over time take place.
The ethical guys are being overrun by the unethical guys. If we leave it up to the BOG to decide, the only way to work it would seem to be permit and tier hunts everywhere, limit the amount of hunters somehow. Which is what the CSB is, I think, going to try to do. Cuz demand has exceeded the supply. And too many seem to be allowed to take advantage of it. We can manipulate the "supply" side to a certain extent, but when we do it changes the very social nature of the hunt. More ungulates equals more hunters, more crowding, more transporters, more habitat abuse.
My two cents.
Best, Mark
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