The squeaky wheel gets oiled first. I guess I just don't complain about things enough.
FWP takes aim at hay-eating elk near Buffalo
I read this article a few days ago and thought of a few things.
1. Landowners don't let the public hunt and then complain that the wildlife are damaging their property. WAH!!! I really feel for them.
2. Why can't the people whose hay is getting eaten fence the stacks off?
3. I'd better go over and check the far stack of hay and see if any elk have been in it eating on it. They can make a hell of a mess of a stack of hay.
So, yesterday I went and checked the hay stack to see if there has been any elk around. Sure enough there is some damage to the hay from elk eating it. Not too bad and there is no fresh tracks so I think I will be okay. There is also lots of tracks in the snow where people have been hunting the elk. Fine, shoot them, I don't care, but I'm really thinking I am going to have to build an elk-proof fence around my stackyard to protect it. Looking at the stack I think it can wait until next year especially if the hunters keep the pressure up on the elk and keep them drove off.
If I whine enough will the state help me build this fence? Maybe they would but I have a little bit too much pride to beg to the state for a little money to protect my hay. I've invested a lot of money in it and if I want to protect it I will. I don't understand these people that whine about such things and just don't fix it themselves. Have some backbone and stand on your own two feet.
Take pride in exactly what it is you do and remember it's okay to fail as long as you don't give up. Dan O'Brien
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Wildlife might seem like a funny place to put this one but in the upper right corner there is a fox peeking over the rock and watching my boy walk along the hill underneath him. Taken 6/20/2005.
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In this irrigated area, we do have a lot of pressure from wildlife. Deer get into the corn fields and do all sorts of damage. They love to eat the silks of the corn as they develop and then, of course, no ear grows. They also tromp down a lot of corn making big "rooms" where they spend the summer. Geese will eat an acre or more of emerging barley per day. Beaver are fond of sugar beets and will harvest many for the winter in fields near the river. A fence won't fix any of these problems. I have been known to whine to authorities about some of this and one year they did actually help disperse the geese with some noisy cannons.
We welcome hunters as long as no one is working in the fields and in fact, one fall a deer hunter even rode along on the combine in the corn field. He shot a nice fat deer.