muley69

The heart and sole of state sponsored hunting is that it is the primary method of population control, and it was an impossible hurdle for the anti-hunting crowd to overcome. They picked around the edges of hunting, trying to band what the could, but have never been able to really make a dent in the over all hunting culture. Anti's knew why hunting had become so necessary to manage populations, because of an absence of predators other then humans. Armed with that knowledge, they out-manuevered the hunting community. You can call it a conspiracyif you want, infiltration of government conservation bureaucracies is more like it. Fifty miles north of here is Missoula, MT. Home to more environmental oraganizations than any other city in the nation outside of Washington D.C. Right here in the Bitterroot valley we have an anti hunting, anti logging enviro group called Freinds of the Bitterroot. They constantly sue the FS over logging, support enviro-whacko legeslation etc. Nobody actually knows who belongs to this group, where they are HQed, or where they even meet. Just WHO are these people? Where does their financial support come from? They are in the paper weekly, yet nobody knows anything about them. I suspect they are just a few people propped up by a national oraganization, given money, and an attorney, and dumped into hot areas such as ours to sue and push their agenda.
I know several people that work for the USFS, and they will tell you that the FS has changed, become more liberal as enivronmentalist began flocking into the organization in the late 80's. Same with several other gov agencies. The enviro crowd is not static, they are well financed, well connected, and very strategic. They will have there agenda become reality at any cost. Look at what they have accomplished with the ESA. They effectively limited building and development over insignificant species and forced environmental impact statements at every turn. They have greatly diminished logging in the west, and slashed mining operations over water quality legeslation. Perhaps their crowning achievment was the re-introduction of the wolf, which will take population control from hunters, and give it to predators, thus greatly reducing the number of hunters in the field, and wrestling population control from state wildlife agencies, and handing it to friendly infiltrated federal agencies. Conspiracy or coincidence?