You forgot the /sarc.
(I should have been at that meeting, but had to work too far north to make the run down there in time.)
NPS...aka the Park Pigs...have an unblemished record at and a couple of hundred miles around Yellowstone: They completely **** up everything they touch.
Wolves? Got the bastards running wild all over three states after “saving” the Park population.
Bears? You can read, I’ve stopped keeping track of the bear “encounters” aka attacks in the past year alone.
Forest management? It’s an oxymoron: Nobody can harvest a tree or even clear deadfall, so lightning or a careless tourist start a fire that burns a couple dozen square miles and then some judge says the burned-out stuff can’t be touched so we just get to wait for the next lightning or a careless tourist to set the mess off again.
Now they’re going to “manage” buffalo, and by inference/incompetence all the rest of wildlife and the entire livestock business in the same three state area they’ve almost completely screwed up already.
That silly bunch of CHARLEY FOXTROTs in NPS and BLM couldn’t “manage” to put it out if they set their own foot on fire.
You mention forest management. Don’t know what area you are in but you can drive nearly from Bozeman up past Great Falls and Helena and see nothing but dead trees—millions of acres, killled by pine beetle.
In a few years there will be millions more and then the fires will start and half the state will burn. Then the rain and snow will bring the soot and topsoil down and the rivers will be clogged with silt, perhaps for generations.
That’s called forest management and conservation, U.S. government style.
Listen, though, don’t give up. At least we can go out and shoot a wolf.
In western ND, too.