I came across an interview on another site that columnist jim Slinsky had done with Cal Dubrock in 1998 on a local radio show he has. Some of his quotes in it are curiously 180 degrees from what he says nowadays. He seemed to agree with the experts then, but just two years later was claiming they're all wrong. And the hunters who he had bad mouthed, he now agreed with.
It almost seems as if he's been disagreeing with everyone for ratings and doesn't really care about what's actually right. Spin sparks controversy. You take a look and decide.

“The only true way to manage a deer herd is to harvest mature female deer, there’s no other real way to do it and yet we still have so many who will just not except that.”



“I would like to see a pheasant stamp in the future. I am willing to pay the $5 to $7.50”

“That’s another area the game commission gets a bad rap, ya know there’s lot of criticism, and many guys don’t understand that the game commission, it is a difficult job to get. You have to be well educated, have great experience, you don’t just walk in off the street and work for the GC. And sometimes people elude to that, that it’s an easy venture.”

When speaking on buying more state game lands:
“That’s the criticism they use too, is that once you acquire the land you must maintain the land ok. And then they criticize you that the larger the piece of pie gets the more difficult, the more expensive it is to maintain it. So it does come down to selfishness and greed, and it’s unfortunate that people are structured this way but they’re selfish, they don’t want to experience any additional costs to go hunting, but yet they’re greedy that they do want to have their game bag full.
You have to give back. It’s (hunting) a consumptive sport. It can’t be give me, give me, give me, give me. It doesn’t work. Who’s giving back?”

When speaking of management zones:
“I see a closer management relating to the terrain and what’s available, the cover, the population pressures, the human expansion.”
“Let me break it down into real simple terms for those having trouble following us, and that is that, you have a traditional season. When the whistle blows at 6 o’clock on Monday morning, you do this for 2 weeks. Your going to have cold spots and hot spots. Due to private posting of land, due to different terrain, due to food available sources, there is no way if your going to try this concept of one size fits all, for the whole state, there is no way to get away from hot spots and cold spots. There may be a multitude of deer left somewhere, and in other spots the deer might be below the statewide goals and be less deer than people are accustomed to seeing. You can’t have your cake and eat it too. You can’t be adamant about defending this very conventional, very traditional season we have, and then complain about hot spots and cold spots. You can’t do it, it doesn’t work.”
“What drives me crazy is, a guy will complain about hotspots and cold spots, he will not divorces himself from this traditional season and his solution to hot spots and cold spots is to close the doe season. That’s his solution. Which makes no logical sense if you think it through, but it is the logical response from the person who is not informed. That’s his solution to everything, just close the doe season. Well that doesn’t work, we go through that vicious cycle again. It doesn’t work, that’s why I can’t see any other way to do it."