So it's Saturday 3/21/09 and I get this great idea to create a new morning show page! (Ya think I'm brain damaged? Right?)
At any rate it just proves I really need to get out of the house more often than work Monday through Friday.
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Monday 3/23/09
So after tinker with the Morning Show pages Most of Saturday and a
little on Sunday it's done.
I received and interesting email from Art Hyde this morning, concerning bow hunting. Give it a read.
Here is the body of the email...
As
you can see it is very important as bow hunters to get out and vote
April 13th
*****Bowhunting threat alert*****
Your bow season is at risk. While reading through the Conservation
Congress Spring hearings questions, I came across question 57 which
seeks to make the archery season an antlerless only season except for
opening weekend and two weeks during the rut.
Bowhunters would not be allowed to harvest a buck at any other time of
the bow season if this passes.
It is being labeled an "EAB alternative" is really an assault on
bowhunters. The wording is sneaky enough not to mention the bow season
which is most likely an attempt to trick unsuspecting CC voters into
voting for it as an "Alternative" to EAB on the grounds of fairness. By
fairness, it means that since gun hunters get an opening weekend and the
9 day season to hunt bucks that bowhunters should only get that same
amount of time to harvest bucks.
As a Bowhunter, you have more reason than ever to attend the April 13th
spring hearing to vote NO to question 57. Please make sure to spread the
word about this assault on the bow season.
Here is the wording as it appears in the CC spring hearing book.
QUESTION 57 – An EAB Alternative
The use of the Earn-a-Buck deer season in Wisconsin has been
controversial, unpopular, and seemingly unfair to many hunters since its
inception. Yet, EAB has proven to be effective at reducing high deer
populations. It accomplishes this by tying the ability, opportunity, and
desire for harvesting a buck with the biological necessity of harvesting
antlerless deer. Sadly, EAB does this on an individual hunter basis
where one hunter may be able to hunt bucks for over 100 days, while
another hunter may never have even one day’s chance.
Another way of utilizing the same “ability, opportunity, and desire for
harvesting a buck” would be to implement a full-length antlerless season
with a shortened buck harvest period. Season opening weekends (and
perhaps a two or three week rutting period) would always be open for
buck harvest so everyone in the DMU has the same chance at that time for
a buck every year that the program is in effect. Antlerless harvest
would be spurred on during the rest of the season by the desire to
return to a full-season buck hunting opportunity again. Specific time
periods and trigger points for the implementation of such a management
tool could be developed cooperatively with the DNR. All hunters under
this system would and should be treated equally.
In areas or DMUs of high over-goal deer populations and in an effort to
provide equal buck-hunting opportunity to all hunters in those units,
would you prefer the concept of shortening buck hunting opportunity by
limiting the buck harvest equally for all hunters on a seasonal basis
instead of limiting individual opportunity through the use of EAB?
To find out where your county CC hearing is, go to the following link.
http://www.dnr.state.wi.us/org/nrboard/congress/spring_hearings/index.html
Art Hyde
WBH District 1 Director
If you like hunting make sure you find out where to vote!
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Tuesday March 24, 2009....
An uneventfull day. Idol bumped to Wednesday so I guess it's time to check the DVR events.
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