Me too !!! Ron ---- mel hocken <[email protected]> wrote: > Scott > Some nice thoughts and comments. The one thing most people forget, is mankind > is the apex preditor and it is us who have over harvested everything. There > is nothing to keep us in check. We turn rivers into sewers, rain into acid > and forests into deserts. Homo Sapiens have over populated. Sadly our economy > relies on more and more people consumming more and more products. A viscious > circle that will someday become what many prepers refer to as the Zombie > Appocolypse. Hope I'm not around to see it happen > > Mel > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Scott Bearden > To: [email protected] > Sent: Sunday, September 21, 2014 9:34 AM > Subject: Re: [VFB] Wolves change rivers > > > Thanks for sharing this Neville. I am a big believer in having a very > rounded out ecosystem with plenty of top of the food chain predators. As such > I don't eat tuna or swordfish (and I have only eaten shark once in my life) > but I try to eat salmon and halibut and hake and a lot of the smaller species > for that very same reason. Wolves have been demonized just as bears have > because yes, both can kill humans, but more often is the case that they kill > livestock and it is ranchers who have driven the propaganda war against bob > cats, mountain lions, wolves, bears and coyotes. When I was a child on the > way back from a camping trip we passed a pasture with barbed wire fence and 5 > or 6 coyotes strung over the fence. My father told me that it was a sign of > the times how few were left because when he was my age that fence would have > been covered from end to end in dead coyotes. > > > Living in the Washington DC metro area we have an abundance of deer because > there are no natural predators and there are active if not publicly quiet > urban archery programs to cull the herds. Occasionally they will even close > the parks for a day for rifle shooting to cull the herds. The local tree > huggers refuse to understand that without natural predators the populations > grow to unsustainable numbers and they strip away vegetation more than they > would if there was balance. Recently there was a couple of police reports of > a mountain lion just 15 minutes outside of DC, but without photographic > evidence or a trapped specimen it might as well be Big Foot. The black bear > population is slowly creeping its way further away from the mountains and > have been seen about 30-40 miles Southwest of DC. Coyotes too have been > spotted and caught on audio right down by the Potomac River but the suspected > numbers are very low due to urban and suburban density. I have lived out here > since 1997. Mostly around densely wooded areas. Only in the last 5 years have > I seen chipmunks. The squirrels are starting to come around the houses > foraging for food. I have seen a few rabbits over time but not many. Even > beavers are slowly making a comeback in the region. They were supposedly > reintroduced to the region through Maryland back in the 1980's and little by > little their population is creeping south along waterways, however a lot of > residents want them trapped and removed not understanding the significance > they have on the ecosystem. > > > Now don't get me wrong, I would defend my life in a pinch against any > predator, but I would still rather have them in this world than not. > > > Scott > > > On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 7:46 PM, Neville Gosling <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Wolves change rivers > > https://www.youtube.com/embed/ysa5OBhXz-Q > > > Neville (Nev) Gosling > > "A Minute Worked is 60 Seconds of Fishing Time Wasted" > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VFB Mail" > group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/vfb-mail?hl=en > > VFB Mail is sponsored by Line's End Inc at http://www.linesend.com > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VFB Mail" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VFB Mail" > group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/vfb-mail?hl=en > > VFB Mail is sponsored by Line's End Inc at http://www.linesend.com > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VFB Mail" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VFB Mail" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/vfb-mail?hl=en > > VFB Mail is sponsored by Line's End Inc at http://www.linesend.com > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VFB Mail" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
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