Palin and aerial shooting of Wolves - Page 3

stupid girls.  Bottom line is, the wolves did NOT attack the people.  They were after the dogs - and reacted normally for a wolf in a pack pursuing prey.  If the dogs had been alone they would have been killed.  If the women had been without their dogs, probably they would not have had a problem with the wolves.  The picture above is obviously set up (dead stuffed wolf in a set position) and does nothing to help the plight of these wonderful animals.  I say, open legitimate hunting of wolves in Alaska if their numbers need to be reduced.  Trap/relocate, or use birth control measures.  Arial hunting is inhumane and terrible.  IMO hunting predators for trophies is gross and disgusting.  If you can't eat what you kill, why kill it.  For fun?  To make you feel powerful, like a real man?  Pitiful.  Palin giving bounties for left forelegs of wolves?  Barbaric.  McCain had my vote but has now lost it.  Now I have to hold my nose and vote for the lesser of two evils, like before.  Very sad.

molly

Oh yes because this issue is at the top of my political decisions. Not! I'll take the lesser of 2 myself, leaving the wolves to deffend themselves, as I don't trust Obama to deffend me or mine. People are more important than wolves!

there are more than a few reasons, other than the wolf issue, for me to withdraw my McCain vote due to his choice of VP.  The environment as a whole, for one (big one) - and others.  Palin is not getting my vote so McCain has lost it too.

molly

Ah yes...it's all peoples fault.  So ya'll are telling me that if there were wolves/bears/big cats/alligators in your area hunting down your dogs and your children you wouldnt hunt them back?

Right.

Not everyone can move, not everyone has the means and not everyone wants to.  some people make their living (farmers) in areas where there are predators, and dont know how to make any other kind of living.

Daryl - good post.

~Cate

Brittany,

Hunting is something maybe men understand more than women, just like women have more understanding of childbearing.   It's not that women don't hunt or understand it but most do not.  I don't know the thought's and feeling's of a woman having a child.  We're just different in this way.  

Hunting in the first place is a skill, something in the way of a challenge, a competition with nature.  You have to know how to track and not be seen or heard or smelled.   You have to know the place as well as the game. Follow sign sometime's for day's or even week's depending on your prey. 

Your prey sometime's is such that it can kill you if your not careful enough.   Other time's it's about hiding and waiting for your prey.  Knowing your prey and were you must be to get a shot.  And it's not all gun's.

Bow hunting require's even more skill and a little luck.   It's hard work traveling a foot over a variety of terrain and in it's self has risk's and danger's.   You can die in the wilderness from stupidity if not by total accident.  

A hunter strive's for a clean kill with as little suffering as possible, an injured animal may elude you or again, come after you and kill you.  

Hunting from a plane or a car is not hunting.  It's shooting fish in a barrel.   No experience required.

The reason's to hunt can be many, and complicated.   You might very well need the food, most only want it.   You might hunt for the fur, for use or sale.  You might hunt for security to rid your self of a pest or a dangerous animal who's just getting too close to your livestock or family.  You might hunt solely for the challenge.  And yes people hunt for the trophy, ego.

Men hunt together for the comeradory as well as the experience itself.  Man is a predator...  alway's has been.

I personally hunt deer for meat, I also tan and keep the hide's.  I don't like to hunt as much as I used to due to the tick's and getting up before dawn is a drag.   I also hunt rabbit, squirrel, and sometime's duck's, geese, and turkey.

Turkey is a tough one to hunt.  You must call a turkey and convice it your a sassy hen or a tom in their territory.

Most men, and I'll add women, don't understand the feeling of really being in the wild.   It's a lot different from the campsite in the park.   I think I'm running out of room here.

Brent.

sick sick people.

some warning as to the graphic content of this post would have been nice.

Brittany,

Anyway yeah I eat what I hunt and no I don't eat dog's all tho I've shot a few over the years. (pest control).

I also have been known to trap, that's a whole other story and something I'm positive you wouldn't like.    That's about fur and money as well as it requires a skill too.

All this in the boundries of laws and regulation's and fee's to government agency's.

Brent.

I want wild place's protected!!   Wilderness is one of the most valuable asset's a country can have.    I want a clean coastline with healthy eco system's .     More than oil rig's and gas in my car.    More than fancy vacation resort's or condo's.

I want standing timber more than redwood picnic table's and lawn furnature.    I want to see wildlife, wolve's, bear's, puma, wolverine, all the great predator's as well as flock's of geese and squirrel's in my oak tree.   I love the sound of coyote's in the hill's and owl's at night.  I want clean water un-polluted by man.  I want to stand in a spot and know I'm the only one who's ever stood in that spot.   

I love all the niceties of modern life, I just dont want to trade of the natural world to have them.

I want my government to hold these thing's dear and protect them from those who would rather have the table's and chair's and gasoline.   

Back to Alaska and Palin...  I think Alaska can handle the state..   I worry about the federal land's personally.  

And Palin is just a governor  no different from any of the rest.  Another politition. That's all I see, not a woman or a NRA member, I don't care if she can field dress a moose.  Jesus !!  That one really killed me, qualification for vice president is moose skining?    Maybe Arnold Schwartzenager should have thrown in his hat...  he's qualified too.    Trust me..

I think Alaska could come up with a better way than using airplane's.

I'm with Two Moons.  Good posts.

molly

Most of all I want to learn how to type and spell correctly...  with more than two finger's...:)