The more I look at state management of different species the more I have to ask myself, "Who are these guys think they are kidding?"

In some states its the Enforcement side that think they are the avenging hand of god and all hunters are the enemy, while in other states you have game biologist takeing a free ride on hunters money while they establish their new world order of game management.

I use to tell a joke about a $250,000 federal grant that was given to group of scientist to take the body temperature of a hybernating Kodiac Bear. Of course most of the money went to the widow of the egg head with the rectal thermometer..

Trouble is this is oh so true these days. It started with "steel shot" and I was involved in the study. I knew in 1978 they would try to outlaw lead bullets in Kalifornia and now here it is..I give you the Condor zones.

Then there is the CWD if you believe this you should have seen them feverishly cutting open deer at Ft Polk to see if the deer had been eating bullets from military rifles ranges that have been there since WWII.  but they had us all drag our deer out of the woods un field dressed for a while. I never got an answer on the results...

They also say there are no Red wolves around ..yea right..While one local guy caught three mountain lions in one game cam photo near Pitkins Louisiana..of course they say there are none of them either.

The Red Cockaded Woodpecker is the egg head sacred cow in these parts. The flying squirrel seems tobe  their nemisis and according to one witness they kill flying squirrels to protect the wood peckers. I have never seen a flying squirrel in Louisiana, but when out deer hunting I see more Red Cockaded Woodpeckers than I do small game animals.

Of course when I reported a pair of Ivory Bill woodpeckers they called me a liar...shortly there after many were sighted.

The big motivater is two folds, money and politics. If it makes money or gets votes they will do it, nothing else.

What you really have to do is look into the background of the people in charge of your DNRs. The big question is are they hunters or not? A little digging might be interesting.

Uncle John