Says the guy that doesn't hunt the coast for a living!

you tell em captain

I wonder how much money has been blown trying to save that inferior species from the inevitable

I'm no big goose hunter but there is a fair bit of difference between a goose and a whopping crane, no?

I wonder how much money has been blown trying to save that inferior species from the inevitable

I wonder how much money has been blown trying to save that inferior species from the inevitable

I wonder if you would be so callous about your own extinction if it was directly caused by another species in a non-predatory manner? I apologize for the dramatization, but just because a species is endangered, does not make it inferior and we are in no place to judge. By your criterion defined above, by far the most worthwhile things on this planet are bacteria and beetles.

Uh oh!!! Yalled done ticked off the bunny huggers

How about American Bison? We could very easily live in a world without them if we hadn't literally stopped shooting them. Are they inferior?

UTA,

Looks like you took the troll bait...

I'm sure you are aware, but many people won't ever understand the purpose of saving a species, and love to jump on the anti-conservation wagon when they know they will get support from others behind a screen for a good ol fashion "hippie bashing" (in their eyes, not referring to you as a hippy) and overall "trolling". Folks will refuse to accept justifying funds to protect animals from extinction and will never accept to recognize what roles each species play.

Nor will they accept that species such as the crane brings in millions to the local economy every year, is on its way to a pretty successful recovery, is hardly hated by most of the locals, won't shut down duck hunting, and many other theories.

For the "record" I am christian, and recognize that God provided us resources, but he also made everything for a reason and it is also our responsibility to protect the world too, especially when we screw it up in the first place.

TXPride, thanks. Yeah, I fell for the bait pretty bad. I have no problem with religion, but there's an enormous difference when you make decisions based on evidence and logic versus any other type of decision making algorithm. I try to get people to see that science has taken us an enormous technological distance in a very short time frame from about 1500 to the present. We've made more technological progress in 500 years than we did the previous 30,000 years, all by using the process of science.

I was super tied up over the holiday with family and didn't make it out to gun hunt at all. Did you ever get to look at that diver hole?

UTA,

Looks like you took the troll bait...

I'm sure you are aware, but many people won't ever understand the purpose of saving a species, and love to jump on the anti-conservation wagon when they know they will get support from others behind a screen for a good ol fashion "hippie bashing" (in their eyes, not referring to you as a hippy) and overall "trolling". Folks will refuse to accept justifying funds to protect animals from extinction and will never accept to recognize what roles each species play.

Nor will they accept that species such as the crane brings in millions to the local economy every year, is on its way to a pretty successful recovery, is hardly hated by most of the locals, won't shut down duck hunting, and many other theories.

For the "record" I am christian, and recognize that God provided us resources, but he also made everything for a reason and it is also our responsibility to protect the world too, especially when we screw it up in the first place.

It could have been easier to say "There are a bunch of rednecks on here that are bored and want to jack with anyone willing to take the bait."

TXPride, thanks. Yeah, I fell for the bait pretty bad.