I largely agree with you. Every scientific box concerning recovery has been checked. Grizzly bears are doing better in the lower 48 than they have in over a hundred years. There is no reason other than the political ones, holding up the removal from their threatened status.
I'll refer back to...
I'm not inclined to weigh in on this debate generally, but this did ring a bell with me.
For a good number of years, I was the chairman of the union for wage employees at the oil refinery, where I worked. There were numerous passages in the CBA (collective bargaining agreement) that were worded...
I think it is more a distrust of what the various state legislatures and governors will direct the Fish and Game departments to do, that is the hold up.
At times, I wonder if it has occurred to various state level politicians, that it is their attitudes involving grizzly bears that is largely the reason the bears are still listed.
Presently every Montana GOP politician with ambition is running for the eastern district seat, to replace...
I hunt elk in grizzly bear country every year. My brother and I set up camp at a trailhead camp ground. I sleep in a slide in camper, he sleeps in the horse trailer. We've not yet had any bear trouble in camp, or any other time for that matter.
I've picketed the horses, but have come to prefer...
Turned 73 today, and lifted weights this morning.
I've been riding each of my horses a couple times a week. I guess you could say, carrying me is their conditioning plan, so they are ready for whatever the fall brings us. I know it won't include a sheep tag, struck out once again.
I've been...
Being a well seasoned hunter, the poll lumps everyone older than 60 into one group. It was a long time ago when I first qualified for that group. I can say that what a person can easily do at 60 is more difficult to do at 70.
You have company in regards of hoping to draw a ram tag, while still being able to do the tag justice. I turn 73 later this month, and put in once again for a tag. The realization that the tag may well elude me is taking hold. Some of the reason I head to the gym so regularly is to be able to...
I'm not a doctor, but I had covid this past January. The last thing to clear out was the phlegm from the lungs. I felt pretty rough for a few days, took one round of treatment of plaxlovid. I was on the mend, but not over it when I took the last of the plaxlovid.
Even after I felt pretty good...
One place my brother worked, they supposedly had a random testing program. They only tested employees they were sure weren't users.
As I said, it's here and it isn't going anywhere.
Another war story. We had an employee at the refinery who used weed often. A friend met him at the front gate...
I've considered and resisted posting anything, but what the hell.
I had many chances to try weed back in the day, never tried it, for many reasons, I suppose. Among them, I did not see where anyone you was into to it handling their life as well as before. I remember telling a friend who was...
I made my choice a long time ago now, 42 years this August.
No state is perfect in every regard. Montana has lived up to what I hoped it would. I factored in a variety of big game hunting, trout fishing, scenic beauty, and staying within day's driving distance from family.
I did not factor in...
#2 diesel has crept up to $4.099/gallon locally. One of the three local refineries had a fire a few weeks ago. That likely curtailed their thru put, a fair amount. Also crude has been inching steadily up, likely a bit of world wide political unrest and the upcoming summer driving demand.
The...
I'm watching the Knicks put a hurt on the Celtics, as I type. I just got home from a pointing dog field trial, I would have like to watch the Nuggets take care of business last night against the Timberwolves.
The Joker scored 41 point with 16-20 shooting from the floor, against perhaps the best...
If memory serves, the impetus behind excluding some civil servants from SS was to end what was called, double dipping. It is true that public pensions are more generous than many in the private sector. When a civil servant also was able to collect SS, the disparity widened.
My father was one of...
Just a anecdotal piece of data. Many years ago now, the refinery where I worked decided that all of the employees should receive firefighting training for refinery fires. I was in one of the first groups to go, before the company decided it wasn't worth the cost.
Anyway I met a guy from a Mobil...