Wally Dog said, "Good grief, the Maker gave us the brain to manage all these wonderful resources...Let's just do it."
Do you call whats going on now good management?
I mean come on, lets look at a few of the items you dont like to read about...
Welfare ranchers have destroyed the public ranges so that 60% of the rangelands are in poor condition, 80% of their riparian areas are in poor condition...Tell me, where were the brains that "the maker" gave us to "manage" the public lands into dirt?
Free flowing river: ie salmon and steelhead.
Historically 16 million anadromous fish entered the mouth of the Columbia, all wild fish. Now, on the very, very best of years we get 1 million, a vast majority hatchery fish. EVERY single run of wild salmon and steelhead in Idaho is listed under the ESA. Again, sure glad all those "brains that the maker" gave us are going to good use in the "management" of anadromous fish.
I could go on and on...the fact is there hasnt been proper management of many of the things we discuss/argue about in SI.
We've had the know-how for a long time to do whats right, but when (for example) the people of Idaho vote in representatives like Helen Chenoweth and Larry Craig, dont expect proper management. Expect the continued raping of the land by resource extraction industries with no regard for proper management. I find it humorous that Larry Craig bitches and moans about wolves killing elk, while he calls for roading and logging every last stick of timber in Idaho, something that elk need, and without it, you and the wolves will both be out of elk. Dont you also find it funny that Craig says he cares about elk and the supporting economy they provide...but then does NOT DO A DAMN thing to save salmon and steelhead and the economy that they provide?
Time to wake up and get with the program...until the masses grasp what proper management is, it wont happen, how can it? The majority are too easily duped by the politics...and to be honest, I think you're one of them Wally Dog.
