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Education and Science
Posted by Bigmnt on Feb 04 2006
Carnivore:
I agree whole heartedly with your assessment of Mr. Treadwells motives and agenda. I too feel the same way and view brown bear management from a conservationist perspective. I do not like it when life support helicopters land in grade school playgrounds and profess to be experts on the uses of firearms and scare the hell out of children. And I would agree that Mr. Treadwells has overindulged children and the general public with his own controversial ideologues. However, how many renowned scientific professional do you read about who support the controlled hunting of a species as a management tool?
Now to move on to another post about how Mr. Treadwells research should somehow be discredited because of his educational background? First let me say that Mr. Treadwells research come from first hand observation of his subjects. Mr. Treadwells documented hundreds of bears in their natural habitat, he seen and knew how they reacted with other bears in the area, he new what and where they ate and what resources they used for food. Mr Treadwells documented breeding habits of coastal brown bears. Mr. Treadwells documented migration habits of several different study groups of brown bears. Treadwells documented food sources and general health of animals through scat analysis and other means. But most impressive to me, is that for several years he lived for six months of the year with these study groups of bears.
Now compare that with a scientific group who has three different radio collared bears, tracks them with global positioning devices, tries to observe them once every three months from the air and then draws scientific conclusions about brown bear habitat, needs and population. Now tell me that this method is somehow more educationally correct and scientifically founded and conclusive? Go ahead and tell me that it is sound science to continue to hunt grizzlies on an at will basis with no harvest objectives in units of Alaska that the last, so called, scientific studies were conducted in 1997? And then assure the non hunting public that we have the science to buck up our control hunting objectives of brown/grizzly bears? Doesn’t take a brain surgeon to do the math as many of us have pointed out on this sight.
My respectful comments,
bigmnt
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