JIM BEERS

Working Together

And two hunting groups can't get along. So they quibble about nits while the environmentalists and animal rights folks sharpen the politicians, bureaucrats, and University professors to eliminate all hunting like the British parliament attempted recently. Double barrel shotguns and pointers will become academic matters to our children because we were denied ownership of either while Ducks Unlimited ran banquets and the state Fish and Game agencies hired anti-hunters. Hunting dog breeders and trainers will be too busy to support commercial dog breeders and pet owners while new Federal authorities are proclaimed and eventual registration and inspections (just like with guns) are utilized by zealous bureaucrats and vote-searching politicians to implement the hidden agendas of yet another animal rights group. All of these things will then be erased from history books and schools just like the Europeans and long-respected scholars and explorers...

Ecosystem Management

Ecosystem does not appear in an old 1970 American College Dictionary in my library. It does appear in a 1974 Merriam-Webster Dictionary sitting under my computer. Hmmm, 30 years ago it pops up in the common lexicon. Try as I might, I cannot come up with anything but trouble popping up in those days. Endangered Species Act, Marine Mammal Protection Act, Animal Welfare Act, and the meteoric rise of Federal powers fed by animal rights and environmental religious fervor all came out of the closet then and the "ecosystem" has been a cause celebre ever since.

We are told by government "experts" and animal rights gurus that wolves "must" be reintroduced everywhere because they are "important" to the "ecosystem." We are told by University professors with otherwise insignificant interests that their study of bats or turtles or darters reveals that their interest is vital to the "ecosystem" and nothing short of a Patriot-Like Act and immediate millions of dollars for those interests will save the "ecosystem." US Park Service and US Fish and Wildlife Service land managers ask Congress for billions of tax dollars and new Federal authorities to "fight" Invasive Species that are threatening the "ecosystem" of "their" lands. We are told by UN bureaucrats, Federal bureaucrats, and their environmental/animal rights chums that all animal or plant use, all land development, and all animal and plant management in the oceans, Africa, Asia, South America, and rural areas everywhere must be stopped to "save the ecosystem." It is all nonsense, but it has been swallowed hook, line, and lead sinker by millions and it is being taught to children today as though it was written in a holy book...