[lockjaw02]

I was living up in Alaska when the public outcry over a planned wolf hunt was raised in the lower 48. Travel agencies were threatening boycotts on Alaskan tour packages.

Eventually, the state government came up with the slogan, "Visit Alaska this year or the wolf gets it", showing a picture of a wolf with a gun to its head.

Those were the years we had massive carnage to the wildlife populations. One year it was due to bitter prolonged cold. The temperatures in the interior didn't get above -60F for 21 straight days. A year or so later there was so much snow, animals couldn't forage. Wolves and moose were getting killed by trains and cars by the dozens because they wouldn't get off the tracks or roads due to the hard time they had with the deep snow.

Animal rights activists often don't realize that mother nature can be so cruel and unforgiving and that land can only support so much. Sometimes it's better to have a few die with a bullet than to have whole packs slowly starve to death over the course of a winter because there are too many for the food supplies to support. Such conditions can create more than just a nuisance, but can also increase dangers of fatal altercations with humans.

Don't you just love it when well-intentioned but ignorant people in cities a thousand miles away think they know what's better for you than you do on your own land?

[Delphinium]

Animal rights activists often don't realize that mother nature can be so cruel and unforgiving and that land can only support so much. Sometimes it's better to have a few die with a bullet than to have whole packs slowly starve to death over the course of a winter because there are too many for the food supplies to support. Such conditions can create more than just a nuisance, but can also increase dangers of fatal altercations with humans.

The animal rights nuts I have been dealing with thinks it okay for them to kill everything off because eventually it will come back. Thats how they feel about fire too.

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