This bullshit is getting out of hand.
It is, completely.
Yet, we're gonna hear bitching that tag numbers are low. Yeah, when we wipe out all the science that helps mitigate the impacts our society places on resource demands in wild places, we should expect wildlife to take the hit. And very few of us will do shit to try sway things to the favor of wildlife. We'll bitch and blame it on wolves, weather, or some other bullshit.
The folks who want grizzly delisting, of which I am one, better readjust our sights. The courts seem to have a lot more spine than Congress and they aren't real keen on delisting species without science, data, and monitoring that is being RIF'd.
Hunters are going to bitch about waterfowl numbers. When DOGE inefficiency takes full effect we don't have hardly any people left manage refuges, work on habitat, and coordinate the programs that help keep waterfowl numbers from dropping further. We best expect to not have as many ducks in the sky, shorter seasons, and lower limits.
I could go on and on about very important programs that benefit us immensely as hunters. In 3-10 years we're gonna hear hunters bitching, looking around and blaming predators for all the problems as to why they didn't fill their tag, or maybe even why they weren't able to draw a tag.
We're gonna hear complaints that tags got cut even further. Where we hunt as nonresidents we are going to see shrinking percentages, as residents want to save what dwindling opportunity remains as opportunity for themselves. Eventually we'll feel lucky if we get allocated 5% as nonresidents, as more states will go closer to 0% nonresident allocation as these resources shrink.
My tolerance for complaining and criticizing without taking action is completely gone. Never in my life has wildlife, and the infrastructure that gives us these amazing opportunities, been shown so little priority from elected officials. And never have hunters been this apathetic, with the average Hunt Talker being way outside the bell curve when it comes to activism among hunters.
Seems that collectively, too many of us are afraid to offend someone we voted for. That as a group, we're too afraid that we'll be labeled with some tag by our circle of social media "friends" if we speak up. Mostly, as a collective group we've set a high watermark for being uninformed/misinformed, entitled, and politically sensitive.
We're gonna get the wildlife abundance/scarcity, and corresponding hunting opportunity, that we earn. Always been that way and always will.
I'll wait to send Congressional letters in the morning in hopes my temperament improves.
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