TXForester
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Federal Aid in Wildlife Restoration act, better known as the Pittman-Robertson act taxes ammunition and firearms and archery equipment. About 62% of the funds go to states for buying, maintaining and managing wildlife management areas. About 26% goes to states for research in wildlife management.
This isn't limited to game animals. Non-game animals also use the same habitats. Non-hunters benefit too. Most land where game and non-game animals are managed are multiple use. You can boat, picnic, bird watch, swim, hike and shoot photos.
And, I'd bet people would b***h if they had to pay a tax on camera equipment and binoculars that goes to wildlife management and conservation.
bean_counter
Well-known
Nikor AIS,
better quality habitat = more livable natural habitat for wildlife. Cleared agricultural land is not natural habitat. Your pictures look like farmland to me. Looks like my neighborhood before folks got involved and worked to set aside and improve the land. It has taken more than a generation, but species have returned, and are thriving.
Development and conservation can compliment each other well.
You describe Alberta as the 1870's-1960's America, raping nature for profit, poisoning waters and killing wildlife. Pitty, I hope your point of reference is skewed.
better quality habitat = more livable natural habitat for wildlife. Cleared agricultural land is not natural habitat. Your pictures look like farmland to me. Looks like my neighborhood before folks got involved and worked to set aside and improve the land. It has taken more than a generation, but species have returned, and are thriving.
Development and conservation can compliment each other well.
You describe Alberta as the 1870's-1960's America, raping nature for profit, poisoning waters and killing wildlife. Pitty, I hope your point of reference is skewed.
Nikkor AIS
Nikkor AIS
Bean Counter,
Not farm land. Native soil.
As far as point of view being skewed. Like we say in these parts. It isnt lying if you can back it up. And despite my horrible spelling. I am trained journalist and I documented everything.
Sue me if I am lying
This on the fringes of Calgary right beisde nose creek.
As far the wildlife coming back. Not going to happen around here. How could it when it's all dead? And even if it wasnt. Where would it live?
And what's left of the rabbits and the odd porcupine get run over on the road. And I am not so sure some folks don't run it down just for sport.
I mean how fast can a porcupine move?
this is a shot of Canada goose , flying off my roof . Hoonking clearly pissed off at the fact the marsh they nested at last year is now gone
Or one day you see a nice rabbit
And the next day you see this. Both images taken right outside my condo.
The other day my mom was talking to me about my work and she love the those CSI programs. And she says that my work is forenisc photographer.
And I told her, ya it is . It.s a crime scene .
It really is. And some one should go to jail for what they have done.
Here is a pretty good picture of the location of the marsh and the "devolpment" that threatens it.
one with 8mm
I am glad some of the hunter's are making some good points. Personally I don't hunter's bullets doing much good around here.
Ducks unlimited is joke.
The fact is this whole area was once some of the best wetland in the whole world.
Non of it should have ever been "yellow deathed".
Now so much has been lost... it's just sad.
As far as huters being the great protectors of the wildlife. Personally I would have a lot more love for them if they would aim there rifels at the yellow beast that tearing the land I grew up on. (Kidding) Kind of sort of .
This land was all native soil, that a horses used to graze on.
The scarry thing is four years ago there flocks of like 150 Canadain geese, and every year the numbers get less and less.
This year I didnt harldy see any. And if I did , It was one or two.
Yes sir , when the yellow death comes rolling. Not a single stone is left unturned.
I often go in after the neiborhoodnis built and document.
And what I see is a lot of wasted building material being thrown in the land fill.
The amount of garbage from a single house is mind blowing
Not even considering when stairs get made wrong. What do you do with a custum stair.. Well , I guess it can become partical board.
How about a little soil erroison. This native grass land. And it also had tree's and little ponds I fished near nose I fished in when I was a kid.
The fact is when my book comes out and the I expose what we let happen I will so hated, I will have to leave.
At this point I could a less.
All my long glass is gone. Nothing to shoot.
And whats funny the local wont print a word against the development becacue ... where do you think all big money advertising comes from
ding ding ding
the big shot developers selling there ugly cheaply made houses.
We wouldnt want upset them.
Up set them I would like to shove my size shoe up there asses.
And personally having seen and been shown first hand, how house are supoposed to be built by father years ago. I wouldnt pay ten cents for the peices of **** they are pumping out now. Five feet from one another.
Is it any wonder , when one burns, the ones beisde it always go in flames to . I think not.
The running joke around these parts is the subdivsions are named for what used to be there. "Foxhollow"
The whole the business makes me sick
here is a shot of native soil running down the storm drain.
The thing that just burns is how stupid we are thinking what we are destroying isn so much more important than ...
this.
In the years to come when it's all gone. And we got nothing but memories of the animals and places they lived. And my documentary photo's of crime. How are going to be able to look at are childern's, childern in the eye.
A couple of years ago I made sit in the car at local march and just watch as Took photo's with Nikkor 800 AIS sticking out the window. They where cranky being stuck in the car with nothing to see (sarcasam) but like I told them . Have a look around because next years this marsh is gone.. And it was.
The thing is unless close attention you don't miss a thing that is gone. Like a bird, or little pond where frogs lived and used to croak on summer nights.
As I am typing this I notice the night is very quite.
Gregory
rogaltacdesign.smugmug.
Not farm land. Native soil.
As far as point of view being skewed. Like we say in these parts. It isnt lying if you can back it up. And despite my horrible spelling. I am trained journalist and I documented everything.
Sue me if I am lying
This on the fringes of Calgary right beisde nose creek.
As far the wildlife coming back. Not going to happen around here. How could it when it's all dead? And even if it wasnt. Where would it live?
And what's left of the rabbits and the odd porcupine get run over on the road. And I am not so sure some folks don't run it down just for sport.
I mean how fast can a porcupine move?
this is a shot of Canada goose , flying off my roof . Hoonking clearly pissed off at the fact the marsh they nested at last year is now gone
Or one day you see a nice rabbit
And the next day you see this. Both images taken right outside my condo.
The other day my mom was talking to me about my work and she love the those CSI programs. And she says that my work is forenisc photographer.
And I told her, ya it is . It.s a crime scene .
It really is. And some one should go to jail for what they have done.
Here is a pretty good picture of the location of the marsh and the "devolpment" that threatens it.
one with 8mm
I am glad some of the hunter's are making some good points. Personally I don't hunter's bullets doing much good around here.
Ducks unlimited is joke.
The fact is this whole area was once some of the best wetland in the whole world.
Non of it should have ever been "yellow deathed".
Now so much has been lost... it's just sad.
As far as huters being the great protectors of the wildlife. Personally I would have a lot more love for them if they would aim there rifels at the yellow beast that tearing the land I grew up on. (Kidding) Kind of sort of .
This land was all native soil, that a horses used to graze on.
The scarry thing is four years ago there flocks of like 150 Canadain geese, and every year the numbers get less and less.
This year I didnt harldy see any. And if I did , It was one or two.
Yes sir , when the yellow death comes rolling. Not a single stone is left unturned.
I often go in after the neiborhoodnis built and document.
And what I see is a lot of wasted building material being thrown in the land fill.
The amount of garbage from a single house is mind blowing
Not even considering when stairs get made wrong. What do you do with a custum stair.. Well , I guess it can become partical board.
How about a little soil erroison. This native grass land. And it also had tree's and little ponds I fished near nose I fished in when I was a kid.
The fact is when my book comes out and the I expose what we let happen I will so hated, I will have to leave.
At this point I could a less.
All my long glass is gone. Nothing to shoot.
And whats funny the local wont print a word against the development becacue ... where do you think all big money advertising comes from
ding ding ding
the big shot developers selling there ugly cheaply made houses.
We wouldnt want upset them.
Up set them I would like to shove my size shoe up there asses.
And personally having seen and been shown first hand, how house are supoposed to be built by father years ago. I wouldnt pay ten cents for the peices of **** they are pumping out now. Five feet from one another.
Is it any wonder , when one burns, the ones beisde it always go in flames to . I think not.
The running joke around these parts is the subdivsions are named for what used to be there. "Foxhollow"
The whole the business makes me sick
here is a shot of native soil running down the storm drain.
The thing that just burns is how stupid we are thinking what we are destroying isn so much more important than ...
this.
In the years to come when it's all gone. And we got nothing but memories of the animals and places they lived. And my documentary photo's of crime. How are going to be able to look at are childern's, childern in the eye.
A couple of years ago I made sit in the car at local march and just watch as Took photo's with Nikkor 800 AIS sticking out the window. They where cranky being stuck in the car with nothing to see (sarcasam) but like I told them . Have a look around because next years this marsh is gone.. And it was.
The thing is unless close attention you don't miss a thing that is gone. Like a bird, or little pond where frogs lived and used to croak on summer nights.
As I am typing this I notice the night is very quite.
Gregory
rogaltacdesign.smugmug.
bigeye
Well-known
It's an affront to hunters because we're spending a lot more effectively on conservation than those with cameras. The title should be, "Shooting Nature: Cameras Gain Popularity, Guns Lose, Animals Lose"
One of the oldest and best models for conservation is Ducks Unlimited They are, by far, more aggressive and agile than the Federal government and effective than other conservancy orgs. 12 million acres of habitat under their control and this does not include the 95 million acres they 'influence' the government to protect.
-Charlie
One of the oldest and best models for conservation is Ducks Unlimited They are, by far, more aggressive and agile than the Federal government and effective than other conservancy orgs. 12 million acres of habitat under their control and this does not include the 95 million acres they 'influence' the government to protect.
-Charlie
rxmd
May contain traces of nut
I thought the article has made it pretty clear on what the reason for that is, namely the economic downturn. No wonder that during an economic downturn, the amount of money available for conservation decreases. No, this is not an affront to hunters, unless maybe to the habitually affronted.
Hunting is an expensive hobby. Looking at animals isn't. And even though it has "cameras" in the title, the article doesn't talk about people buying more 600mm lenses for wildlife photography, it talks about ordinary people getting out more. Remember, that's a good thing!