Even worse, it’s highly toxic to children and pets. Doesn’t make a lot of sense to have around IMO
https://amp.idahostatesman.com/outdoors/article234442102.html
When have the majority of hunters not blamed predators, even when studies and best available data suggest otherwise? Its easy, convenient, and does a good job of ruining hunter credibility with other stakeholder groups.
What I find is it’s a hunting forum based on reason, standards, and advocacy vs a hunting forum based on folklore, anti environmentalism, and entitlement. Just a different perspective from a successful private sector hunter
He nailed it really. Pick off the working class with funny tweets and distractions, continue building the framework of the last 40 years that concentrates wealth at the very top. Most billionaires ever in the incoming administration and I read Trump is now among the top 25 wealthiest in the...
If hunters want to be the primary stakeholders in wildlife management a good place to start would be having a well organized approach with baseline environmental standards, comprehensive conservation interests, and putting reasonable people forward who believe in the scientific method.
From what I could find it also appeared:
115th House rules (Jan 3, 2017- Jan 3, 2019): https://docs.house.gov/billsthisweek/20170102/BILLS-115hres5-PIH-FINAL.pdf
118th House rules (Jan 3, 2023 - Jan 3, 2025): https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-resolution/5/text
and now 119th...
Oregon residents want the same. There was so much public uproar it didn’t go through.
Things change and constituents views and wants change, even if that doesn’t seem possible. Financial burden is completely different for states.
Here’s an example of a state forest that was almost sold, and it would have been a heartbreaker. Ended up with a university and then turned into a state research forest with public access…a bumpy ride. This is in a solid blue state. Stuff happens, even if you think it won’t…wacky local politics...