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Another know all student influenced by all knowing environmental "Greens' from academia.
Feel free to send them a letter and explain to the paper:
1) Environmentalism has been around 25 years, conservation's over 100 years. If we didn't have the hunter/conservations save the land prior to the Enviromentalist, the Greens would not have anything to complain about today because there would be little habitat left to fight over. What do environmentalist do other than sue people anyway?
2) Hunting and outdoor Rec pays the bills to conserve lands. What do the environmental groups do with the millions of $$$ they raise each year other than big salaries, big parties, big lawyers & sue people? It's well documented the hunting groups deliver, from recovery of game animals: deer, elk, ducks, bears, turkeys, et to habitat preservation, hunters have a long record of restoring & protecting & working to protect. (Like the environmental work our clubs do) What do the Greens do again other than complian and sue?
3) It was the hunters & ORV users who fought hard to conserve these lands we are now being tossed from.
4) Take offense to "riding around killing. We hunt according to sustainable use/renewable resource principals. This is sound science. Top predators as panthers run around and kill randomly. (documented fact cats kill for fun)
5) Hunters & ORV have been on the scene for over a century. If we were riding around "destroying the environment and killing everything" for the last 100 years, why is the environment so nice now?
6) If we don't have access to the resource, what incentive is there to preserve it? If we don't have sportsmen active in preservation, who's going to be active & out there doing this? Some green geek in an office?
Have fun! Remember this trash was published by a paper with a distrabution of about 300,000 & a readership of 500,000. We need our side told too. Good PR starts with your effort!
Thanks!
Stand strong against vehicles in Addition
By Lauren MacDonald
Sun-Sentinel - http://www.sun-sentinel.com
Posted April 10 2006
Threatened by swamp buggy drivers and hunters, the Addition Lands of the Big Cypress National Preserve in South Florida need aggressive environmental protection or face potential destruction of the land and its wildlife inhabitants if the area is opened freely to recreational activities.
Claiming that swamp buggy culture is at stake, hunters want to roam the Everglades territory, killing deer and wild hogs. This self-interested group's recreation would damage the land, destroy the natural habitats of wildlife and demolish the existing tranquility.
Our nation continuously fights for the protection of national wildlife reserves. So what makes this situation so different? Although swamp buggies are part of the Everglades culture, the use of these and other off-road vehicles carves damaging ruts into the wilderness, causes soil erosion, and creates areas where non-native vegetation can grow.
Traditionally, these vehicles have been used in the South Florida swamps since the 1920s and have existed as part of an Everglades folk culture, in which hunting, fishing and frogging, using airboats and swamp buggies, were a way of life. Now, however, with the population growth and numbers of vehicles used purely for recreation, the existence of a true wilderness is threatened. Enough vehicles already exist in hunting camps, on swamp buggy trails, and logging roads. The Addition Lands should not become a playground for a small self-interest group.
The Big Cypress National Preserve is the habitat of nine endangered species, including the Florida panther, as well as bird life and a number of native plants that contribute to the natural ecosystem. The Addition Lands represent a natural Florida landscape that we cannot afford to erode and allow to vanish.
Envronmentalists need to stand strong to protect this territory and rally against the increased use of swamp buggies in the Addition Lands, as a preliminary decision is anticipated this summer.
Lauren MacDonald is a college student and resident of Fort Lauderdale.
http://sun-sentinel.com/news/opinion/sf ... 3794.story
Another know all student influenced by all knowing environmental "Greens' from academia.
Feel free to send them a letter and explain to the paper:
1) Environmentalism has been around 25 years, conservation's over 100 years. If we didn't have the hunter/conservations save the land prior to the Enviromentalist, the Greens would not have anything to complain about today because there would be little habitat left to fight over. What do environmentalist do other than sue people anyway?
2) Hunting and outdoor Rec pays the bills to conserve lands. What do the environmental groups do with the millions of $$$ they raise each year other than big salaries, big parties, big lawyers & sue people? It's well documented the hunting groups deliver, from recovery of game animals: deer, elk, ducks, bears, turkeys, et to habitat preservation, hunters have a long record of restoring & protecting & working to protect. (Like the environmental work our clubs do) What do the Greens do again other than complian and sue?
3) It was the hunters & ORV users who fought hard to conserve these lands we are now being tossed from.
4) Take offense to "riding around killing. We hunt according to sustainable use/renewable resource principals. This is sound science. Top predators as panthers run around and kill randomly. (documented fact cats kill for fun)
5) Hunters & ORV have been on the scene for over a century. If we were riding around "destroying the environment and killing everything" for the last 100 years, why is the environment so nice now?
6) If we don't have access to the resource, what incentive is there to preserve it? If we don't have sportsmen active in preservation, who's going to be active & out there doing this? Some green geek in an office?
Have fun! Remember this trash was published by a paper with a distrabution of about 300,000 & a readership of 500,000. We need our side told too. Good PR starts with your effort!
Thanks!
Stand strong against vehicles in Addition
By Lauren MacDonald
Sun-Sentinel - http://www.sun-sentinel.com
Posted April 10 2006
Threatened by swamp buggy drivers and hunters, the Addition Lands of the Big Cypress National Preserve in South Florida need aggressive environmental protection or face potential destruction of the land and its wildlife inhabitants if the area is opened freely to recreational activities.
Claiming that swamp buggy culture is at stake, hunters want to roam the Everglades territory, killing deer and wild hogs. This self-interested group's recreation would damage the land, destroy the natural habitats of wildlife and demolish the existing tranquility.
Our nation continuously fights for the protection of national wildlife reserves. So what makes this situation so different? Although swamp buggies are part of the Everglades culture, the use of these and other off-road vehicles carves damaging ruts into the wilderness, causes soil erosion, and creates areas where non-native vegetation can grow.
Traditionally, these vehicles have been used in the South Florida swamps since the 1920s and have existed as part of an Everglades folk culture, in which hunting, fishing and frogging, using airboats and swamp buggies, were a way of life. Now, however, with the population growth and numbers of vehicles used purely for recreation, the existence of a true wilderness is threatened. Enough vehicles already exist in hunting camps, on swamp buggy trails, and logging roads. The Addition Lands should not become a playground for a small self-interest group.
The Big Cypress National Preserve is the habitat of nine endangered species, including the Florida panther, as well as bird life and a number of native plants that contribute to the natural ecosystem. The Addition Lands represent a natural Florida landscape that we cannot afford to erode and allow to vanish.
Envronmentalists need to stand strong to protect this territory and rally against the increased use of swamp buggies in the Addition Lands, as a preliminary decision is anticipated this summer.
Lauren MacDonald is a college student and resident of Fort Lauderdale.
http://sun-sentinel.com/news/opinion/sf ... 3794.story