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Politics : Did Slick Boink Monica? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: pezz who wrote (20159)	4/28/1999 11:20:00 PM
From: lorrie coey	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 20981

pez...I'm glad you addressed the "catch and torture" comment... I find that folks who know that what they do is wrong will go to great lengths to be able to tell themselves, and others, how it's "just really ok." Rationalize. Justify... Move on and do it some more, because it's just ok. Hunting in 1999-it's a dirty joke, but whosoever laughs last, laughs best... Oh, the Nobility...

To: pezz who wrote (20159)	4/28/1999 11:26:00 PM
From: ManyMoose	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20981

No I think wildlife is more abundant today because of forest management, another of my deadly sins soon to be relegated to history books. It will be out of business until yuppies figure out the stuff their house was going to be made of is now too expensive because it has to be shipped in from places where they don't practice forest management. However, hunting and trapping fees go to wildlife management and habitat acquisition, as do my contributions to the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation and the Nature Conservancy. Those dollars go directly into the habitat, unlike the dollars managed by Greenpeace, PETA, HCI, and other organizations dedicated to interfering with the legal activities of others. Yes, I resent the chicken littles. They are not the cause of the Exxon Valdez oil spill, but their comfy little life styles would not be possible without basic industry that creates wealth. Wealth, you see, is not created on the internet. It is created by digging it out of the ground or growing it on the stump. Without that fountain there is no internet. I don't disagree with the chicken littles' motive nor with their goal. What I disagree with is the endless stream of lies they use to interfere with other people's business. Take the cartoon movie "Fern Gully, the Last Rain Forest." What a pack of lies. The poor little forest creatures being trucked to the mill in the last truck of logs. Kids believe that stuff; they don't distinguish between fact and fantasy. If you tell them a clearcut is some kind of nuclear strike zone they believe it well past the time when the new forest that grew up there is growing ten times the rate of the old declining one that became the boards in their house. Your fishing habits must be a tender spot. I have nothing against catch and release, but it sure was fun to get your goat. Me? I learned to fish from a giant named Bud Moore. Take your copy of "A River Runs Through It" -- and if you don't have one you are not a fly fisherman at all -- Look on page xii of Maclean's acknowledgements. That's the man. He's a dry fly fisherman and the fish we caught together we ate. I could never hold a candle to Bud; I have neither the wrist nor the passion. You saw the movie too, or you are a liar to boot. Those scenes on the river, that's Bud in the far reaches of my memory. He's 80 now, but like Maclean said to this day I would not dare to follow him on snowshoes. There was a time when I could, but he was in his prime and I was just a kid down the street. And yes, Bud taught me to kill marten, weasels, and bobcats. By God those were the best days of my life. So don't interfere with that or we WILL have a fight. But I would rather be friends, because I suspect that we love the same things. I just see myself as part of the ecosystem, not as a watcher or a petter of it. I don't think it is any more diminished by my kill than it is diminished by the kill of the bobcat. Go in peace my friend, but don't come between me and my ecosystem. You just might understand me, but Slick never will.