How would you help wildlife?

[DB29]

They're already doing that with rampant access to abortion.

This is going to sound harsh, and by design, but how uninformed does someone need to be to think it's okay to spend money to purposely fund human population control?

China did this all too well and their economy will tank because there aren't enough replace the aging population dying and retiring...

I wasn’t being serious. I was using an extreme to point out that if human expansion continues taking over animal habitat all other measures fall short.

 

[Maverick1]

I am already doing my part with population control.

 

[Dogone]

I have planted 13 miles of hedgerow on my farm. I now have a great upland population. WTD are good and even a few moose . Antelope come and go ; trees are not a big thing for their habitat.
Unfortunately neighbours tear their trees out.
I did all this on my own dime. I get a little annoyed when some conservation organization plants few trees and a little grass. Then they are applauded for the effort.

 

[ddd-shooter]

I’d pay off every member of Congress and the president to these ends:
-require/ fund the USFS to actually manage the forests. Burns, logging, road maintenance. Fire nearly every USFS employee in DC. Require a chainsaw proficiency test to be qualified to be hired for ANY USFS position.
The amount of employees I’d hire would probably break me after a few years!
-Set up several lumber mills to help bring back American lumber. Most likely lose money for years or decades.
-Fully fund the restoration of the American chestnut tree.
-once habitat has been improved for 10+ years, I’d restock quail, grouse, and turkey where poor habitat has extirpated them-increase elk stocking in the East, subject to CWD awareness.
-pass legislation to limit ANY new solar farm to previously disturbed ground/existing structures ONLY.
- lobby states to pass legislation limiting urban sprawl by incentivizing business to remodel existing urban areas, rather than spread out into new rural areas.

It wouldn’t take long and I’d be broke.

 

[IDVortex]

Invest in winter ranges would be my 1st priority, 2nd would be investing in MT Goats, helping out herds or paying to get goats relocated from NP to state lands to help herd numbers.

Id love to see a few of the lower 48 have a 'otc' tag for goats. Even if its something like MT unlimiteds.

 

[el_jefe_pescado]

I buy two extra MT R7 speed goat tags that don’t get punched (partially out of protest and partially out of my own ineptitude as a pronghorn hunter). Does that count?


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[ozyclint]

China did this all too well and their economy will tank because there aren't enough replace the aging population dying and retiring...

It's China. Who said anyone is retiring?

 

[ozyclint]

If I had Musk money, I'd buy New Zealand.

 

[grfox92]

1. Winter range. Here in NW Wyoming, the elk herd I love to hunt is 1/4 of the size it was 25 years ago. Some would blame Predators for this decline but in actuality it is loss of winter range due to development. There was a highly controversial and contested development that went in directly in the winter range of our elk and deer herds. That development has caused and interesting shift.....

As animals migrate out of Yellowstone, they can go east to my neighborhood or south to Jackson. Since the major development has occurred on the eastern front, it shows collared animals are turning and migrating south to Jackson every year instead of coming east. This means they never migrate through our area and never winter on our shrinking winter ranges. This means they never show up during hunting seasons and find a new home down south where they are feeding them throughout the winter.

Why G&F hasent come up with a similar plan in our area is unknown. But it's not going to get any better.

2. CWD. Some people may not agree with my position on CWD, but I'm not eating an animal infected with a Prion disease and I'm certainly not feeding it to my kids. Prions are forever, and my kids have a long life ahead of them. CWD was unheard of in our herds 5 years ago and now it is here and percentages are going up every year.

Lots of people take a very strong position on how it hasent infected any humans, it's the wrong kind of prion for people to contract ect. But I have listened to an awful lot of biologists, disease specialists and researchers talk about CWD and while it hasent infected anyone, every single one of the professionals who work on this disease as a career say the same thing. They would NEVER eat the meat of a positive animal. Period. This is due specifically to it being a prion disease.

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[roadrunner]

It's China. Who said anyone is retiring?

They can't work forever...