The bad thing about land is, that they aren't making any more of it.

That being said one of the biggest problems that I see here in Oregon is that game management and forest practices are now controlled by public opinion.

Since I am not a mechanic there is no reason for me to stand over my mechanic and tell him how to do his job. Yet forest managers here are handcuffed by public opinion. The main objective is no longer to do what is right, but to do what will ruffel the least ammount of feathers.

The problem with hunters is that they don't thrive on conflict, as a whole they are solitary creatures that would rather listen to a squirrel scolding them on a fall morning than spend 5 minutes in the company of politicians.

The reason that urban sprawl is so prevelant is high density areas being able to sway the vote in their favor without actually knowing the consequences.

Large farmers and ranchers have become evil in the eyes of the general public. Loggers are nothing more than tree hacking neanderthals. Yet no one will stop to think where their food and homes come from.

The majority of people in this country today are so far removed from where their goods and services come from that they think steaks are grown in the supermarket and lumber just materalizes at the hardware store.

BJ I dont have any answers but I do believe that the true hunters are conservationists, I mean the true hunters the ones that are willing to not only carry out the garbage that they take in but will carry out the garbage that others have left behind, the hunters who are willing to trek to the top of a ridge instead of chainsawing a 4-wheeler trail there.

I would hope that truely wild areas will always exsist where there are sometimes doubts on wether man is really at the top of the food chain or not, because it will be a pathetic exsistance without them.