Recognizing Opponents

The Letter from the US Fish and Wildlife Service "Connecticut River
Anadromous Fish Coordinator" citing "scientific research abstracts" that
"dispute" the fact that salmon "harm" brook trout should be read carefully
by every hunter, fisherman, and natural resource user in the nation. (See
Outdoors Magazine Vol. X Issue XII October 2006).

While touting "restoring" "healthy salmon and brook trout populations and
habitat" and how "Trust Species" and "other native species" are their
"focus": nowhere is there any mention of any fishing purpose to Federal
programs, bureaucrats, or their "Joint Venture" "partners". That is because
they do not intend to maintain fishing either public sport or commercial in
the future world they hope to create.  Like manipulations of wolves by the
Ted Turners of the world and movie stars getting Wilderness views; "the
right kind of people" will be the only ones with what we each took for
granted and therefore lost while being too busy to fight for them.

Notice the reference only to "habitat degradation" and the need for more
funding to fund "dam removals, fishway construction for eels, river herring,
shad, and some instream habitat restoration".  These are all just
touchy-feely innocent appeals for support as they appear to push Atlantic
salmon restoration that outdoor users assume will be available for fishing.
The Federal environmental employees and their politically sensitive agencies
never intend for anything other than creation of an untouched and inviolate
wilderness or sanctuary with approved "Aryan" species of what they tell us
must exist.  The "research" they cite is funded by them for their purposes
and their purpose is a never-ending campaign against "invasives" like
rainbow trout and brown trout in this case and everything from fish "out of
place" like certain muskies and walleyes and bass to pheasants and elk.  I
can only ask you to consider carefully how acquiescent your (and every
other) STATE fish and wildlife agency is in this growing display of Federal
power over STATE programs and community control of their economies, culture, and traditions.  The citation of Trout Unlimited as a partner only confirms what I have said repeatedly, that most of the national Non-Government Organizations do not represent us, only their own welfare and a future based on government largesse from tax breaks and grants to employment and political status.

It is easy to dismiss all this as the rantings of someone that was forced to
retire from the US Fish and Wildlife Service and whose Blog has been blocked by the US Department of the Interior.  This is not personal, vindictive, or vengeful.  The Federal agencies and their environmental/animal rights agendas are clearly laid out in this Letter from a government bureaucrat trying to sound sweet and helpful when indeed we should all take notice and bring this power to heel before it puts each of us out of business and makes couch potatoes of our children and grandchildren.  Read it carefully.  Such
propaganda should not be published as worthy of print any more than a
slanted piece from PETA or HSUS.  The sooner such fair-play tactics are
abandoned, the sooner we can get on with recognizing and defeating the
opponents out to make us and our traditions as extinct as passenger pigeons
and Ivory-billed woodpeckers.

Jim Beers
27 October 2006

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