Animal right’s people will be happy to know that my supplemental deer feeding has officially come to an end for the year. With much of the snow now gone and deer out foraging in spring mode, there is little need anymore for my backyard feeding.
The number of deer dropping by to feed each day has been lower and lower over the past week or two, and now the bloody racoons and crows are starting to eat my deer feed, so I took that as a sign to pull the pin.
I’m sure I will still see deer in the back fields and around my property, but will no longer being providing supplemental feed.
It is one of the only sad parts about spring, I suppose, as watching these beautiful creatures each night at dinner through the dining room window is something one can easily get use to.
Outdoorsguy
Jeff,sure hope your not concerned to badly about the thoughts of the animal rights people LOL.Besides if they are concerned just send them over to the corner of hazeldean & hwy 7. I have to laugh at the environmentalists who have thought they have won a big victory because in order to build the terry fox extention they have to fence a few shrubs and possibly build a tunnel for the turtles and frogs.Meanwhile on hwy 7 developers have destroyed around 50-100 acres or more of beautiful forest to so far put a car dump. For 20yrs we have hunted around there and when we leave the bush the animals probably laugh and go about there business.Now it is destroyed and nobody would say a thing cause it’s “Out of sight out of mind”.
Sorry had to vent !
No Paul, I’m not really that concerned about them or what they think.
Real drag about the loss of nice forest in your area, but let’s just say I’ve seen these people with their priorities messed up in the past..
One time back in University I attended a Environmentalist Rally – just to see what it was about – these tree-huggers were all concerned about activities in the north affecting the environment..but when I put my hand up to ask where their group was when Hydro opened a dam at the wrong time and 100, 000 caribou died..they couldn’t figure out what I meant…
That was back in the mid-80’s and I took it as a sign of where some people’s priorities are…I have witnessed it quite a bit since then too!
Thanks for the note Paul..and don’t worry about venting..Ive done it myself a few times!
Outdoorsguy
I am an avid fisherman and I used to do a fair amount of hunting, but I also consider myself to be an environmentalist. These descriptions don’t have to be mutually exclusive. I appreciate all aspects of nature, not just those that I exploit.
Fishr, I think you will find that most hunters and fisherman are also wise conservationists and do care greatly about their environment..what we’re speaking about here is setting priorities when it comes to managing our renewal natural resources…my personal opinion is that preservationists sometimes have trouble focusing on the big picture..but that is just my opinion, and in no way reflects my own own concern for the environment.
In the example I gave, an environmental group was so focused on ‘micro-managing’ for a project’s environmental impact, they totally overlooked a nearby large scale wildlife disaster…
Outdoorsguy
Jeff i could not agree more.Yes we fish and yes we hunt but we are the true environmentalists because we care about the beauty,quietness,wildlife,marine life and try to improve the habitat.When developers are able to come in and scorch the earth,just because the land is cheaper out further,that is where it’s wrong.These environmental impact studies that are done are a joke.They are so manipulated Give the provincial government of the day a contrabution and the promise of a few jobs and they will let developers do anything and the public buys it hook line and sinker.Here is some advise i’ll give a land owner if they want to build a shopping complex in lets say, Algonquin Park. 1st- in order to get around the protection of wetlands,cut a trench at least 5-8yrs ahead of time right beside,so as all the moisture has had time to drain off and plants not associated with moisture have had time to grow.2nd-In order not to alarm the public that you may be destroying vast stretches of forest,you leave a thick buffer lets say 100ft wide along the road so when you completely log out and destroy the 500-1000 acres behind, the public won’t see.Leave that then for a year or two till it looks like it has always been that way to the dumb and gullible public.Then you can take the remaining buffer away and the public will not even bat an eye. Now this may sound far fetched but that is exactly what is going on along Hwy7 in a number of places.
Paul, I thank you for bringing these issues to my attention..I had no idea that sort of thing was going on along Hwy 7!
As my old man would say, “Well, that’s progress for ya!”
But what about the public hearings? I am quite familiar with the EA Process as I worked for Environment Canada for a spell; as a Pollution Prevention Coordinator – there, how Environmentalist is that for ya!! So I do know that public hearings and consultation are part of process.
The whole thing sounds like quite the hornets’ nest Paul, and I feel for you buddy.
Outdoorsguy