Well about 1.5% of U.S hunters are RMEF members, and my experience with volunteer orgs is that 2% of the group does 90% of the work...
So that chunk of folks who think they're doing enough by just buying a license is huge. I bet they're almost on even footing with the guys that whine about...
Who told you to buy preference points? I'd wager that it was non-resident advocacy that got the scheme implemented to begin with. "It's getting too hard to draw a tag in a random draw, I need something back for my applications fee"... -paraphrased, probably.
And Non-resident college tuition...
For hydro-electric across the board absolutely. We aren't taking out Grand Coulee for the sake of salmon. But the Klamath dams were pretty good candidates since they were about to be shuttered one way or the other, and the private money wasn't interested in maintaining them. I suppose an...
And those wind or solar farms don't come with a gaggle of humans shoveling the heads off of every snake on their quarter acre, or an indoor outdoor cat gobbling every lizard and bird it can get it's paws on. They create a developed footprint for sure, but they aren't occupied like a subdivision.
More to dam removal than just salmon as well though. The removal of the Klamath dams has potential to benefit a whole suite of species.
I agree with you that removing the dams won't be the salvation of salmon, but ecologically it's probably the right thing to do, and I think that's worth...
Never hunted Wyoming, Colorado, Montana, Washington, Arizona, or New Mexico but I still care about the game management and access in each of the states. I have no aspirations about ever hunting half of the states I listed, but I may want to take a camping trip there and cast a line once or twice...
The sediment is one of the things that has everyone tore up here. The Klamath does look admittedly gross, but I'm not sure what folks expected it to look like.
This is where Clear Creek meets the Klamath. Maybe 70 miles downstream of the dams.
https://www.opb.org/article/2024/01/24/fourth-dam-breached-on-the-klamath-river/
Still surreal that it's actually happening. Everyone in Siskiyou county seems to be very upset that previous lake bed is muddy. I'm not sure what they expected.
As well, this particular group of feral horses runs between timber company land and a national monument. Except for when they're running around designated wilderness after some a-hole cuts another hole in the boundary fence.
In my field we like to say "It doesn't exist until it's published". A lot of agency science isn't real by that metric.
I'm one who generally supports agency biologists and the historical meaning of "science based management", but I'd like to see a little more rigor in some of the work. Not to...
They called me again last month. I let the gal finish her spiel and said "like I told the last person, I'm not giving you any money until there is some major change. I have serious concerns about the lawsuits and LaPierres misappropriation of funds."
She says "We'll agree to disagree" and hung...