Palin, Wolves, and Bears -- Lipstick Free

[Anonymous]

Its about population control. Please read the background on these aerial hunts.

The Rock Creek comment is pretty funny. Alaska is twice the size of Texas, you are talking controlling the occasional coyote compared to thousands and thousands of animals.
I am all for wildlife control. We have so many deer in my area, there really needs to be a big hunt. It going to be downright dangerous to drive during the upcoming rut. Maybe Palin can send some of those helicopters my way and kill Bambi before Bambi fly's onto someone's windshield and kills them.

[Anonymous]

Good grief! I can't imagine Alaska having that much of an overpopulation problem, there's a lot of open land. Admit it, they just don't want too many bear or wolves living in their state, because they really have no concern for wildlife. Too bad you have so many deer in your area-where the hell are they suppose to live? We decimate their habitat, give them little itty bitty places to live, and then kill them because they're multiplying. Give me a break. This attitude is exactly why I cannot support the Republican ticket-too much " holier than thou", "it's my way or the highway"...no compassion.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Good grief! I can't imagine Alaska having that much of an overpopulation problem, there's a lot of open land. Admit it, they just don't want too many bear or wolves living in their state, because they really have no concern for wildlife. Too bad you have so many deer in your area-where the hell are they suppose to live? We decimate their habitat, give them little itty bitty places to live, and then kill them because they're multiplying. Give me a break. This attitude is exactly why I cannot support the Republican ticket-too much " holier than thou", "it's my way or the highway"...no compassion.

What is your solution for the overpopulation of deer? Indroducing wolves into Montgomery County? It's either hunting, or they die from disease and being hit by cars. I agree that it's sad, but there aren't many other options.

[Anonymous]

I know several hunters coming from PA and they all own pets (dogs mostly). So are they mean or kind?

[Anonymous]

National Geographic had an article recently about elephants in Africa. Part of that article showed how some of the reserves had in the past (and may in the near future) resort to "culling". They showed people up in the helicopters shooting down at the elephant families to control population. It turns my stomach. I happen to be one who really thinks it should be up to nature to take its course. That said, the people who are doing this do NOT do it because they hate/don't care about elephants. It's killing some so that others will live. I don't know who is right...but it is definitely not an unheard of practice.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:National Geographic had an article recently about elephants in Africa. Part of that article showed how some of the reserves had in the past (and may in the near future) resort to "culling". They showed people up in the helicopters shooting down at the elephant families to control population. It turns my stomach. I happen to be one who really thinks it should be up to nature to take its course. That said, the people who are doing this do NOT do it because they hate/don't care about elephants. It's killing some so that others will live. I don't know who is right...but it is definitely not an unheard of practice.

The problem in those reserves is that they are not big enough to sustain unlimited elephant populations. Elephants are very destructive and can quicly reduce a forested area to a buch of twisted stumps (witness Ambseli in Kenya). This has become a problem since reserves are increasingly isolated and separated by farms etc. I know a former South African park ranger who participated in elephant culls and absolutely hated it but there were really no other options. Culling wolves, on the other hand, I think is meant to reduce their predation on game animals like moose and caribou, solely for the benefit of moose and caribou hunters! Hunting and hunters are not all evil--look at groups like Ducks Unlimited and what they've done for conservation--and there are good reasons to support it in places where the revenues it generates contribute huge amounts to conservation efforts, but the Alaska wolf situation is not one of them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:.

What is your solution for the overpopulation of deer? Indroducing wolves into Montgomery County? It's either hunting, or they die from disease and being hit by cars. I agree that it's sad, but there aren't many other options.

Yes, well, a lot of people believe that the death penalty is appropriate. Most of those same people don't vie for the chance to administer the lethal dose.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:.

What is your solution for the overpopulation of deer? Indroducing wolves into Montgomery County? It's either hunting, or they die from disease and being hit by cars. I agree that it's sad, but there aren't many other options.

Yes, well, a lot of people believe that the death penalty is appropriate. Most of those same people don't vie for the chance to administer the lethal dose.

But someone has to do it. I certainly don't kill a cow each time I eat a burger.

[Anonymous]

That is precisely my point. Maybe if you had to brutally kill a cow every time you wanted a burger, you'd find something else to eat. Or get someone less fortunate than you, or with a much harder heart to do it.

Sarah Palin does it for FUN!!