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Big Game Hunting => Other Big Game => Topic started by: Ghost Hunter on February 22, 2020, 05:27:28 AM

Title: WY Governor not happy with gunning goats
Post by: Ghost Hunter on February 22, 2020, 05:27:28 AM: https://county10.com/governor-gordon-condemns-aerial-gunning-of-mountain-goats/
Title: Re: WY Governor not happy with gunning goats
Post by: huntnfmly on February 22, 2020, 06:29:22 AM: Complete BS
Title: Re: WY Governor not happy with gunning goats
Post by: nwhunter on February 22, 2020, 07:35:39 AM: Same thing is gonna happen here in Washington this fall too on the olympic peninsula with our mt. goats. The more Park and wilderness we allow the more control we lose to the tree huggers and hippies and instead of hunting being used as management in those areas we go to crazy extremes that make no sense..
Title: Re: WY Governor not happy with gunning goats
Post by: Stein on February 22, 2020, 08:15:04 AM: It's the funny stuff that humans do. Goats are not truly "native" anywhere, for any specific place, if you go back far enough there were no goats there. In fact, there were only goats there for an incredibly tiny window in history.

We pick an arbitrary point in history and say that that day is magical and perfect and whatever was there on that day is right and whatever was not there should be removed. The real question should be what makes sense today considering all of the factors and priorities?
Title: Re: WY Governor not happy with gunning goats
Post by: idahohuntr on February 22, 2020, 09:07:14 AM: Must be more to this story...seems like the WY delegation would have strong pull in this Administration. On its face, makes no sense to not use hunters, even in a National park.
Title: Re: WY Governor not happy with gunning goats
Post by: Ghost Hunter on February 23, 2020, 06:11:59 AM: Not many in Wyoming happy with the methods.

https://trib.com/news/state-and-regional/helicopter-sharpshooters-to-kill-grand-teton-nonnative-goats/article_cc4f52f5-14e2-57ea-a789-4d1d35f2bcf9.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook_Casper_Star-Tribune
Title: Re: WY Governor not happy with gunning goats
Post by: sagemd on February 24, 2020, 05:45:13 PM: The park service created this problem in Wyoming and Washington by not allowing goats to be hunted in the park as the population increased.
The park service has the ablility to allow hunting and to set rules for hunting.
They do want hunting because they don't like hunters.
So they higher killers to shoot the from aircraft and let them rot.

They say its because they are non-native.
Are they removing pheasant, horses, or any other of the many non-native animals? NO.
Title: Re: WY Governor not happy with gunning goats
Post by: Sutherland on February 24, 2020, 05:50:56 PM: Wow that is just crazy, why not just open up a hunting season and let people go in there for a hunt and collect meat... Can't stand when anyone let's meat go to waste!
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Post by: bigtex on February 24, 2020, 05:53:24 PM: The NPS canceled the operation.
Title: Re: WY Governor not happy with gunning goats
Post by: Skillet on February 24, 2020, 06:47:21 PM: Quote from: Stein on February 22, 2020, 08:15:04 AM

We pick an arbitrary point in history and say that that day is magical and perfect and whatever was there on that day is right and whatever was not there should be removed. The real question should be what makes sense today considering all of the factors and priorities?

Can I get an Amen!! This is spot on.
Title: Re: WY Governor not happy with gunning goats
Post by: Katmai Guy on February 24, 2020, 08:01:51 PM: AMEN!
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Post by: Slow-drifter on February 24, 2020, 09:37:48 PM: As far as the Olympic peninsula goats are concerned, at they end of the day they were here before the park was. I'm my eyes hat should count for something I think
Title: Re: WY Governor not happy with gunning goats
Post by: Katmai Guy on February 24, 2020, 11:24:21 PM: Our puss governer didn't fight hard enough to stop this like wyomings.
Title: Re: WY Governor not happy with gunning goats
Post by: Stein on February 25, 2020, 09:01:41 AM: Quote from: Skillet on February 24, 2020, 06:47:21 PM
Quote from: Stein on February 22, 2020, 08:15:04 AM

We pick an arbitrary point in history and say that that day is magical and perfect and whatever was there on that day is right and whatever was not there should be removed. The real question should be what makes sense today considering all of the factors and priorities?

Can I get an Amen!! This is spot on.

I bet a smart person could find a point in time where there were no southern resident orcas in Puget Sound. What fun that would be.