ORIGINAL: moose1915
you guys mean to tell me the PGC paid money to load a dead deer into a helicopter, airlift it to a fisher - populated area,and throw said carcass out of the helicopter to feed fishers?
I hope am wrong in my thinking that you're all really crazy.
And IF it really happened, then PA is in worse shape then i could ever imagine.
Inmates running the asylum...
No the Game Commission didn’t spend money to feed fishers.
The National Guard pilots have to have so much air time each month to keep their flight qualifications. Before they were getting that time on combat missions they were looking for opportunities to fly on state projects. One of the projects they took on back then was the airlift and drop of the dead deer in the area of the fisher releases.
They also took on the mission of dropping some telephone poles containing osprey platforms into some of the lakes across the state as one of those training missions.
It didn’t cost the Game Commission anything and those pilots were going to be flying anyway just for the training so why not use that opportunity in a constructive way?
R.S. Bodenhorn