knucklehead
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Disclaimer - this isn't aimed at anyone here! Merely an opinion!
I gotta go with Bird on this one. What-when-where-how. We've been known to let them be, and we've been know to wipe them out - wasps, spiders, moths, mice, groundhogs, wetlands, and the all-you-can-eat special at the China Pearl......
Chicken wings fear my name.
My brother took out a charging groundhog with a hammer when he was in his early teens. Other brother mowed one down with the old JD 112. But we didn't kill 'em when the garden was done. We've hogged a big circle around nests of birds and had ugly patches in the field, avoided the pole pile when it had wasps under it (they gotta be good for something besides skunk food, right?), and generally left other things and places alone while creatures where there. Dad & Mom still have a low spot down back on the lawn that ducks use - so do we, and we may not fill it in because of "our ducks" each Spring, even though it can be a West Nile factory.
Think that slick coat stuff everyone's using on the underside of their deck will work with gopher guts?
How do we know which species are supposed to die back and which are not? Bottom line - I'll decide locally. Look at our coyote and turkey populations - if you want to save something, make a hunting season for it! Creatures are more resilient than we want to think - and I think they often make convenient defenseless excuses for other agendas. Once we hurt enough people via job loss, all of a sudden we had way more Spotted Owls than we thought - but are they back cutting? Something be stinky with that deal. Coyotes are running through cemetaries (ick!) in Portland, and some Southern Islands are overrun with deer (and ticks), resulting in huge dilemmas to the beautiful people living in the area.
"Can I squish that tick, Dearie, or shall we call the reloction team?"
Seems O.K. to hurt people to the same folks who don't want us to step on bugs. And it's funny how those same folks always want someone else to do the saving. They all seem to be buying up farmland, shoreland, and wild places and turning them into personal Valhallas just as fast down In Southern Maine, but want everyone else to give up life, land, and livelyhood to have a huge park just up the road. Then they can live their idyllic existence (but not too far from Starbucks) with the money they made elswhere.
RESTORE BOSTON! Leave Maine's North Woods Alone!!
I think the snake asked for it. Some others up here are starting to get on our nerves, too. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
See disclaimer, again. I mighta got a little excited, there.
I gotta go with Bird on this one. What-when-where-how. We've been known to let them be, and we've been know to wipe them out - wasps, spiders, moths, mice, groundhogs, wetlands, and the all-you-can-eat special at the China Pearl......
Chicken wings fear my name.
My brother took out a charging groundhog with a hammer when he was in his early teens. Other brother mowed one down with the old JD 112. But we didn't kill 'em when the garden was done. We've hogged a big circle around nests of birds and had ugly patches in the field, avoided the pole pile when it had wasps under it (they gotta be good for something besides skunk food, right?), and generally left other things and places alone while creatures where there. Dad & Mom still have a low spot down back on the lawn that ducks use - so do we, and we may not fill it in because of "our ducks" each Spring, even though it can be a West Nile factory.
Think that slick coat stuff everyone's using on the underside of their deck will work with gopher guts?
How do we know which species are supposed to die back and which are not? Bottom line - I'll decide locally. Look at our coyote and turkey populations - if you want to save something, make a hunting season for it! Creatures are more resilient than we want to think - and I think they often make convenient defenseless excuses for other agendas. Once we hurt enough people via job loss, all of a sudden we had way more Spotted Owls than we thought - but are they back cutting? Something be stinky with that deal. Coyotes are running through cemetaries (ick!) in Portland, and some Southern Islands are overrun with deer (and ticks), resulting in huge dilemmas to the beautiful people living in the area.
"Can I squish that tick, Dearie, or shall we call the reloction team?"
Seems O.K. to hurt people to the same folks who don't want us to step on bugs. And it's funny how those same folks always want someone else to do the saving. They all seem to be buying up farmland, shoreland, and wild places and turning them into personal Valhallas just as fast down In Southern Maine, but want everyone else to give up life, land, and livelyhood to have a huge park just up the road. Then they can live their idyllic existence (but not too far from Starbucks) with the money they made elswhere.
RESTORE BOSTON! Leave Maine's North Woods Alone!!
I think the snake asked for it. Some others up here are starting to get on our nerves, too. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
See disclaimer, again. I mighta got a little excited, there.
