Axing fishermens’ livelihoods not the way to protect 'Glades

[Dakota]

By Daily News staff

Friday, July 13, 2007

Everglades National Park Director Dan Kimball says fishermen and others can rest assured that they will still be able to fish and use motorboats in the park after all the new rule-making has run its course.

Pardon those same people for being wary.

They have seen blows to their livelihood before, and they’ve heard government promises before.

The Everglades City area’s major employer, commercial fishing, was taken away from Everglades National Park in 1985.

Swamp buggy and all-terrain vehicle enthusiasts are still waiting for local and state environmental officials to make good on their promise for an alternate riding site after they were kicked off Bad Luck Prairie four years ago.

Now the federal government proposes an array of new restrictions ranging from banning boats longer than 24 feet to all motorized boats in waters less than three feet deep.

Read more of the story at http://www.naplesnews.com/news/2007/jul ... oat_rules/

 

[basketcase0302]

Dakota,

Another good find, thank you!

The Everglades City area’s major employer, commercial fishing, was taken away from Everglades National Park in 1985.

Swamp buggy and all-terrain vehicle enthusiasts are still waiting for local and state environmental officials to make good on their promise for an alternate riding site after they were kicked off Bad Luck Prairie four years ago.

I personally witnessed tall this over the course of 23 years of living there. The wealthy had us build thier estates there and now want us out!(The working class that is).

"Save the Everglades" is nothing but a yankee bunch of crap snowscreen thrown out to run all the "good old boys" out of the woods!
So they, "the rich yankees" could swallow up even more private land for aquifer/water storage to water thier damn golf courses!

In 1984 Collier County, (Naples) had more professional 18 hole golf courses (about 19 of em' back then) than any other county in the U.S.!
I can't even imagine how man now.....

You know if we really want them all to go back up north all we gotta do is close all the golf pro shops! :twisted:
Then we'll turn all the golf courses into ATV parks for our kids!

Basketcase

 

[cowboy]

Yep Basket,
Save the Everglades!
Save the Texas Cougars! By the license plate. Buy the T-shirt.
Save it from the people who respect it the most............
Sportsmen and Hunters.

It really is a pack of lies.
People eat it up, by the big heaping spoonfulls.

It must taste like yankee pot-roast, and macaroni is all I can say.

 

[barhopper]

Basket, where did the land that the wealthy built their estates on come from?

 

[bwright]

:twisted:
If they really wanted to protect Florida Bay they would allow airboats in it. This vessel does not harm the sea grass or stir the settlements up on the bottom more than your average wage. There is nothing on record saying he airboat has ever harmed manatees either. The same people who make a living in Florida bay had said in meeting here lately they do not support airboats because they are noisy. We as sportsman's have segregate ourselves entirely too much we need to spend more time respecting each sportsman's culture. The segregation has allowed them to take us out one at a time. Airboaters at one time used Florida Bay a long with jet skis, we were a nuisance to the fishing guides I'm not saying they threw us out but they didn't help keep us either. What they didn't realize is they are on food chain to the environmentalists are gobbling up and eating their next victim. Like anything in this world you can find a reason to be negative on it, first the airboater, second the jet ski, third outboard motor boats, tomorrow the canoes, the next decade the hikers, don't think your environmental friends do not have a long-term plan. And don't think you are not on their food change; their goal is to have the woods locked up in and be a true wilderness plan. :idea:

 

[basketcase0302]

Barhopper,

I know a little, (by no means a lot) of the So. Florida history.

From the Seminoles to our government?

http://www.funandsun.com/1tocf/seminole/semhistory.html

From our government to the rich yankees?

To a man named Mr. Collier from Tennessee became Collier County. I know he built the Tamiami Trail and several other huge economic undertakings in So. Florida.

Ready to be enlightened. :wink:

Basketcase

 

[barhopper]

That was the question I was asking. Did the land come from private individuals or some how from the government? Not trying to be a smarta$$, just trying to understand what's going on there. That was a good article. The place where Osceola what captured and held was called Ft King. It is about two miles down the road from my house. Lots of Seminole history around here.