Save the wolf - but kill the eagle?

[noharleyyet]

...another perfectly good Obama slam jumps the rails. Thanks Mr. Lamb.

 

[1_pointer]

Good stuff. I would say, however, the CBD and most of the serial litigants are not conservation groups. They're just A-holes.

As for predators: I remain highly skeptical that intensive management of predators does any good in the long run. When we start to talk about management of eagles, then we lose all public support except for the folks who think that 1080 was a good idea. You can mitigate predation through habitat management, which pays much higher yeilds in the long run.

Killing one species to benefit another works in somewhat closed systems like fisheries, but it's still expensive. Taking that type of management to open country is a recipe for continued gov't waste, IMO.

I agree on the A-holes and was why I used the quotation marks.

Also, and again, I hope my posts didn't come across that I was advocating for golden eagle management. I'm not! I'm a habitat guy, first and foremost. Just mentioning that a few more would probably help sage grouse, but I so no need for any time/money being spent to reduce them. But, if a few are removed via incidental means, I ain't gonna cry or worry about it. Sorry to take this off on the rabbit trail...

That said, I really need to hunt sage grouse again. One of, if not, my favorite birds to hunt!

 

[Ben Lamb]

That bird is sleeping!

 

[1_pointer]

And still is, in my freezer! I wish I could have kept it for a mount. It was a pretty big rooster.

 

[Ben Lamb]

There's a ginger-wasabi sauce a buddy had that worked really well for those tough old birds.

 

[RobG]

There's a ginger-wasabi sauce a buddy had that worked really well for those tough old birds.

When I was growing up I was told the last thing you'd ever want to do is eat a sage grouse (the second-to-last was shoot one, since you would then have to eat it). Are they pretty strong tasting or something?

 

[jryoung]

Surely there's a recipe for sage grouse, all game can be great or terrible you just have to find a recipe that works. Some animals are a little easier than others, but when you find a good recipe for a notoriously challenging game animal it can be awesome.

I just make Hank Shaw's Sardinia Hare Stew that he made for Rinella in the CA episode of Meat Eater and it was fantastic.

 

[Ben Lamb]

When I was growing up I was told the last thing you'd ever want to do is eat a sage grouse (the second-to-last was shoot one, since you would then have to eat it). Are they pretty strong tasting or something?

I've eaten SG that were just as tender as a sharpie. Key is shooting a younger bird. Old ones are like old bulls - tough & chewy, IMO.

 

[1_pointer]

I like to make sage hen fingers! Slice the breast kinda thin, then flour then fry! Tastes kinda like liver. Which isn't a bad thing IMO...