So we have the pro wolf folks aggressively lobbying wolf reintroduction, where is the other side aggressively opposing it showing the masses videos of how wolves feed themselves, and how destructive they are? Who is even taking that role?
Why do the radical conservation groups have such a strong hold on the public, where is the opposition and who is in charge of the opposition?
It feels like we just sit back and watch these conservation groups do their thing, and our strategy is hoping the public doesn’t buy into it, but there doesn’t seem to be much offense from us.
Same thing is happening here on the coast with marine reserves, the conservation groups make their case, they meet little to no resistance, and they wrap up these valuable chunks of the ocean and don’t do anything they said they would, and nothing is done.
If we don’t match their aggression, we are just going to sit back and watch them take opportunity from us, and none of it is for the benefit of resources, it’s special interest groups trying to take control over every resource, because in their city life, they don’t value the resources, they just want it their way.
This isn’t going to stop here, and everything they take just gives their agenda more momentum… it feels like we let the special interest groups do whatever they want, let them brainwash the public with no opposition… why is that and how do we shift the momentum?
Right now one of these groups is trying to reintroduce sea otters in Oregon, and it’s a terrible idea with no benefits and heavy consequences, we have had several years of El Niño and warm oceans, that was good for sea urchins, without the north wind and upwelling in the spring and summer, the spawn didn’t drift away into the abyss, so we have lots of urchins and no food for them.
We are trending back into a good weather pattern for a healthy ocean and kelp growth, this special interest group is taking advantage of the scenario saying it’s the biomass of urchins decimating the kelp forests, but that’s not the case, it’s a natural cycle that will balance out… now they say we need otters to solve the problem, but the otters won’t eat the urchins, because they are empty… we have a very fragile abalone population here right now, and the otters will take them out first, and do nothing for the problem they are supposed to solve, I have seen it firsthand, harvesting urchins in Alaska, diving among the otters… if they are empty, they don’t mess with them… why would they?
We need to meet these people with resistance every step of the way, because how things are going now, we are screwed. Not just in Colorado, but everywhere they can get a toe in they will.
When Colorado is done, they aren’t done, they are full steam ahead trying to stop people from hunting and fishing, and they are doing this from big cities, completely disconnected from reality
