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Mike Strahan
Posted by Barron on Mar 02 2006
I dont agree with the local preference mike. A local advisory board is better suited to make a local call concerning wildlife, agreed, but, and its a big old wisconsin cheese eating butt, If there are not enough animals to be hunted, and the locals confirm such a problem exists, then stop the hunting completely until numbers come back up to hunt level. Again, I beleive a local will always be bias in saying close the area to everyone else, but open it to me. Its human nature. I did not like it when they closed some of 16 for moose, or changed the regs in 14 to make hunting harder. But I deal with it.
Take joe jackson up on the kobuk. Every year the regs have been written tighter and tighter and now its damn near impossible for him to make a living up there. Its damn near impossible for you or I to hunt up there. Brian will back this as he used to do transports also.
You get greeted by rangers with automatic weapons while hunting moose? Not for me.
Secondly, no matter what the state says in a reg book, it is my exp that if someone local wants to shoot an animal for food, they just do as they have for years, shoot and duck, run and eat. Its not going to change.
Here is an example as I slow it down to Mikes level.
Take our buddy from lake clark. Evey year for twenty years has shot a moose for food on the border of lake clark park. Perfectly legal on preserve. Due to whatever, overhunting, to many tourists, wolves or the lemmings eating up the moose browse,no moose left.
Resorted to Shooting a cow moose last year in the park.Which by the way is 5 feet from leagl preserve. Got caught. Paid the fine of $500.
Two days later shot another moose and put it in the freezer as he has for what 20 years? Its how they eat. I understand that. Park ranger did not agree. Go figure. But it wont change. Now our buddy has input at the state level to vote on who can hunt his area. How does he vote?
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