Then how did these things not go extinct? Before humans got involved it had to balance out, there was no choice. Predators if they got too large a population started to starve. As there were less predators the animals they ate multiplied. If there was no balance either predator or prey would cease to exist. Only when humans come along can they really screw it up. It is amazing how many humans think the world started a couple hundred years ago.
We started seeing effects of climate change in southwest Alaska back in the eighties. Now there are trees on the tundra where none had been. Brown bears coming out of hibernation too early, long before the salmon arrive. Seeing mother and cubs in desperate straits, ribs sticking out, is troubling. Just a matter of time until she tries breaking into houses and gets her rear shot off. (7 in one season where I was staying.) Anybody who doesn't believe in climate change has never been to Alaska. Then again, anybody who believes Biden and Gore can fix it needs psychotherapy. A far bigger problem than climate change is that we have total fools in charge. Lawyers and liars instead of engineers and pragmatic scientists.
As an aside, two things that I greatly appreciate about this website
a) people feel free to share differing opinions and (b) those differing opinions are, in the main, shared respectfully without rancor or personal abuse. These days, with Americans at each's throats, that's pure gold!
Anybody wanna talk about Air Rifles and Amazon?
If you hang around this place, as with almost any groups on the net you will see a LOT of drift in threads. Since the net came along and people started making groups like this that has been the case. MANY would start their own and very tightly control what was said to prevent this. Soon there would be only a handful of members talking to each other wondering why there was only a handful of members 
I just want to leave this world the same way I entered it....by accident. Screaming and flailing like all the passengers in your grandfather's car?
UPDATE: now that I'm geared up and ready, all the squirrels have disappeared! Poof! Overnight. In this neighborhood of fairly well-off office worker types, nobody does anything themselves. It all gets farmed out. My bet is that somebody hired a pest control outfit. I'll wait. They'll be back.
They must have been watching your Amazon deliveries.
LOL. Good video. Envy is the Mother of Mischief. Let the furry little perverts order their own AMZN treats.They must have been watching your Amazon deliveries.
They must have been watching your Amazon deliveries.
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Interesting indeed. The level of detailed factual knowledge held collectively by subscribers to this website is endlessly impressive. Striking contrast to the legacy media, wherein people getting paid millions of dollars for being "journalists" either know nothing and/or simply lie.
Wolf "reintroduction" was illegal, and nowhere near beneficial.
The Idaho legislature actually prohibited and attempted to block the "introduction" of a non-native, diseased species, but that plague (diseased wolves) had already very quietly been introduced into the Rockies, including Idaho.
Now, about the disease...
In the mid 80s the sheep industry got hammered by echinococcus granulosis, a two-host tapeworm. No sheep could be moved out of Idaho or Utah during this period. In order to control this tapeworm thousands of sheep were killed and burned to ash in the field. Thousands of coyotes, foxes, and some guard dogs were killed. Millions of dollars were spent in both states treating sheep dogs with regular injections in the field. The result is that Idaho & Utah were deemed to be free of the echinococcus granulosis tapeworm in 1986. The sheep industry in Utah & Idaho were back in business.
About ten years later in 1995 some of the very people we trust to manage game herds illegally introduced a non-native apex predator into a situation where native wolves existed, albeit in low numbers. And that introduced predator brought echinococcus granulosis tapeworms back into Idaho, and nobody really gives a
Sounds like "I'm from the government and I'm here to help". Almost everything they touch turns to crap. As always they have "experts" telling all that it was NOT their fault.
Wolf "reintroduction" was illegal, and nowhere near beneficial.
The Idaho legislature actually prohibited and attempted to block the "introduction" of a non-native, diseased species, but that plague (diseased wolves) had already very quietly been introduced into the Rockies, including Idaho.
Now, about the disease...
In the mid 80s the sheep industry got hammered by echinococcus granulosis, a two-host tapeworm. No sheep could be moved out of Idaho or Utah during this period. In order to control this tapeworm thousands of sheep were killed and burned to ash in the field. Thousands of coyotes, foxes, and some guard dogs were killed. Millions of dollars were spent in both states treating sheep dogs with regular injections in the field. The result is that Idaho & Utah were deemed to be free of the echinococcus granulosis tapeworm in 1986. The sheep industry in Utah & Idaho were back in business.
About ten years later in 1995 some of the very people we trust to manage game herds illegally introduced a non-native apex predator into a situation where native wolves existed, albeit in low numbers. And that introduced predator brought echinococcus granulosis tapeworms back into Idaho, and nobody really gives a
Human error is always a possibility and those failures could've been avoided im guessing.
Wolf "reintroduction" was illegal, and nowhere near beneficial.
The Idaho legislature actually prohibited and attempted to block the "introduction" of a non-native, diseased species, but that plague (diseased wolves) had already very quietly been introduced into the Rockies, including Idaho.
Now, about the disease...
In the mid 80s the sheep industry got hammered by echinococcus granulosis, a two-host tapeworm. No sheep could be moved out of Idaho or Utah during this period. In order to control this tapeworm thousands of sheep were killed and burned to ash in the field. Thousands of coyotes, foxes, and some guard dogs were killed. Millions of dollars were spent in both states treating sheep dogs with regular injections in the field. The result is that Idaho & Utah were deemed to be free of the echinococcus granulosis tapeworm in 1986. The sheep industry in Utah & Idaho were back in business.
About ten years later in 1995 some of the very people we trust to manage game herds illegally introduced a non-native apex predator into a situation where native wolves existed, albeit in low numbers. And that introduced predator brought echinococcus granulosis tapeworms back into Idaho, and nobody really gives a
I was a government contractor for a while. The general public has NO idea how corrupt, conniving, and incompetent many government employees are, especially at the top. Besides the usual buffoonery, I witnessed felonies being covered up. The perps weren't janitors or clerks, but officials at the top end of the food chain. If I hadn't seen it close up, I would never have believed it. The Feds won't even fire actual criminals.Sounds like "I'm from the government and I'm here to help". Almost everything they touch turns to crap. As always they have "experts" telling all that it was NOT their fault.
