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Ideal News and ViewsS. Dak Game, Fish and Vietnam?
The local mail arrived with a publicaton from the South Dakota Game, Fish and Parks,--Wildlife Divison located in Pierre. S. D. The Department has had serious confrontations with the local ranchers up there in the northwest part of the State, near Buffalo and other ranchers in Harding County. The game the hunters seek is the antelope and deer(trophy). The discussion centers on the Game Warden (called Conservatiion officers -polite talk) The Game Wardens are hunting hunters who might or might not be obeying the rules of the Department covering limits and licenses .
The argument begins, can a warden enter private prope;ty without trespassing to check red coated hunters or those who look like hunters or are carrying guns or being followed with a dog or two? Does the warden have to have permission of the owner or does he actutally have to witness a game violation.
Landowners in that area have limited hunting access and the ranch land has been closed for general hunting by the owners. The S. D . Department has attempted to resolve the problem by transfering a game conservationist (warden ) who has been on that area assignment for many years in hopes of softeningthe argument.
The Department selected a number of persons in the State to study the problem and come up with a method to delete the problem. One method to try was to inform the public through a publication to land owners the role of the game warden. I am on the receiving end of the publication. Well let me continue.
In the four page format of a nineteen by seventeen folded publication there is on page one; "State Trapping Program Available to Ranchers and Farmers" ; on page two,"Abandoned Mines are Wildlife Habitat"; on page three," Vietnam War Memorial to be Held in Pierre Septemeber 15 and16" and " Goose Depreditation Programs Available;and on the back page a one third page advertising "Viet Nam War Memorial" with a shadow photo of an American flag, an eagle on wing and a Viet Nam Veteran. Several side box statements are along the pages too and one states,"The aAverage annual expenditure of the WDM progam spent in answering lanowner complaints is in excess of $2.5 milion". Another page has a long box listing the Conservaton officers Statewide. BUT-- the shadow color makes the names almost unreadable, probably to DE-EMPHASIS THE ROLE OF THE 'GAME WARDENS'?
So if bats in the caves need to be protected, as they consume the West Nile mosquito or plant game plots for a dollar or two to attract the migratory geese who may harbor the Avian flu this fall heading back to the Platte river or to Arkansas,--great --- but VIET NAM VETERANS WAR MEMORIAL?
It has occured to my mind that to honor the hunter in the land of the Viet Nam is out of joint in this publication.
The Governor Rounds had announced earlier that in September a Memorial program would be held for the Viet Veterans and the recent session of the Legislalture put $100,000 of sales tax(include the tax on food) to celebrate the hunters in Viet Nam.
The real hunt is for vet's vote as the Gov is doggen for votes for his second time around as the Governor of South Dakota.
Great moments in history? After returning Stateside from the WWII I recalled the moment when the final standdown of the Squadron was reviewed by Killer Kane of the Polesti Oil raid debacle that the crew member on our plane thumbed his nose as he reviewed the troops from a slow sideslippen Piper Cub a few feet off the tarmack.
All show no understanding. The politics of war or the war of politics?
The need is for a few more code talkers to carry the message during the war of political strategy using veterans memorials.
LH
The local mail arrived with a publicaton from the South Dakota Game, Fish and Parks,--Wildlife Divison located in Pierre. S. D. The Department has had serious confrontations with the local ranchers up there in the northwest part of the State, near Buffalo and other ranchers in Harding County. The game the hunters seek is the antelope and deer(trophy). The discussion centers on the Game Warden (called Conservatiion officers -polite talk) The Game Wardens are hunting hunters who might or might not be obeying the rules of the Department covering limits and licenses .
The argument begins, can a warden enter private prope;ty without trespassing to check red coated hunters or those who look like hunters or are carrying guns or being followed with a dog or two? Does the warden have to have permission of the owner or does he actutally have to witness a game violation.
Landowners in that area have limited hunting access and the ranch land has been closed for general hunting by the owners. The S. D . Department has attempted to resolve the problem by transfering a game conservationist (warden ) who has been on that area assignment for many years in hopes of softeningthe argument.
The Department selected a number of persons in the State to study the problem and come up with a method to delete the problem. One method to try was to inform the public through a publication to land owners the role of the game warden. I am on the receiving end of the publication. Well let me continue.
In the four page format of a nineteen by seventeen folded publication there is on page one; "State Trapping Program Available to Ranchers and Farmers" ; on page two,"Abandoned Mines are Wildlife Habitat"; on page three," Vietnam War Memorial to be Held in Pierre Septemeber 15 and16" and " Goose Depreditation Programs Available;and on the back page a one third page advertising "Viet Nam War Memorial" with a shadow photo of an American flag, an eagle on wing and a Viet Nam Veteran. Several side box statements are along the pages too and one states,"The aAverage annual expenditure of the WDM progam spent in answering lanowner complaints is in excess of $2.5 milion". Another page has a long box listing the Conservaton officers Statewide. BUT-- the shadow color makes the names almost unreadable, probably to DE-EMPHASIS THE ROLE OF THE 'GAME WARDENS'?
So if bats in the caves need to be protected, as they consume the West Nile mosquito or plant game plots for a dollar or two to attract the migratory geese who may harbor the Avian flu this fall heading back to the Platte river or to Arkansas,--great --- but VIET NAM VETERANS WAR MEMORIAL?
It has occured to my mind that to honor the hunter in the land of the Viet Nam is out of joint in this publication.
The Governor Rounds had announced earlier that in September a Memorial program would be held for the Viet Veterans and the recent session of the Legislalture put $100,000 of sales tax(include the tax on food) to celebrate the hunters in Viet Nam.
The real hunt is for vet's vote as the Gov is doggen for votes for his second time around as the Governor of South Dakota.
Great moments in history? After returning Stateside from the WWII I recalled the moment when the final standdown of the Squadron was reviewed by Killer Kane of the Polesti Oil raid debacle that the crew member on our plane thumbed his nose as he reviewed the troops from a slow sideslippen Piper Cub a few feet off the tarmack.
All show no understanding. The politics of war or the war of politics?
The need is for a few more code talkers to carry the message during the war of political strategy using veterans memorials.
LH
posted by Lowdon @ 3/16/2006 10:41:00 PM
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