Duffy,
You do more disservice to Alberta hunters and our collectively owned wildlife resource than you know.
I think it is time to practice what you preach - take a rational approach.
This pilot may very well have had great intentions, but it's focus changed form a habitat and access driven plan to an economic venue to commercialize wildlife. This was stated explicitly in the meeting that we had in Lethbridge with Cormack Gates (facilitator) and SRD.
We have done the research Duffy, and we are not opposed to habitat retention or initiation. We are not opposed to seeing some type of reward to landowners who are stewards.
We sound pretty irrational don't we?
I think the disconnect for you Duffy is that you see the program for the principles contained within the first iteration. By not seeing beyond that, you appear to be wearing rose colored glasses with a substantive set of blinders.
Where do you live Duffy?
I live very close to both of the proposed pilot areas.
Do you have local knowledge of the Landscape, the Players and the issues?
I do. If you do not have that knowledge, you probably should not speak to the virtues of this pilot, because you lack the complete information package - go ahead and form your opinion, but please do not speak to this issue as an expert.
Hopefully the "rational" reader will realize the unified and increasing awareness and opposition to Open Spaces for what it is, an attempt to commercialize wildlife (Cormack Gates's words not mine).
I give my hunting Brethren the credit they deserve to make these observations in a rational manner. I wish that you could do the same.
I have seen similar behavior to your less than insightful diatribes, and couldn't quite place it. I do remember it now though. I believe it was a proponent of the Flat Earth Society. I couldn't quite understand how someone could actually believe something like that with all of the evidence to refute it. Thanks to you Duffy I think I have been afforded a glimpse in to this frame of mind.
You do more disservice to Alberta hunters and our collectively owned wildlife resource than you know.
I think it is time to practice what you preach - take a rational approach.
This pilot may very well have had great intentions, but it's focus changed form a habitat and access driven plan to an economic venue to commercialize wildlife. This was stated explicitly in the meeting that we had in Lethbridge with Cormack Gates (facilitator) and SRD.
We have done the research Duffy, and we are not opposed to habitat retention or initiation. We are not opposed to seeing some type of reward to landowners who are stewards.
We sound pretty irrational don't we?
I think the disconnect for you Duffy is that you see the program for the principles contained within the first iteration. By not seeing beyond that, you appear to be wearing rose colored glasses with a substantive set of blinders.
Where do you live Duffy?
I live very close to both of the proposed pilot areas.
Do you have local knowledge of the Landscape, the Players and the issues?
I do. If you do not have that knowledge, you probably should not speak to the virtues of this pilot, because you lack the complete information package - go ahead and form your opinion, but please do not speak to this issue as an expert.
Hopefully the "rational" reader will realize the unified and increasing awareness and opposition to Open Spaces for what it is, an attempt to commercialize wildlife (Cormack Gates's words not mine).
I give my hunting Brethren the credit they deserve to make these observations in a rational manner. I wish that you could do the same.
I have seen similar behavior to your less than insightful diatribes, and couldn't quite place it. I do remember it now though. I believe it was a proponent of the Flat Earth Society. I couldn't quite understand how someone could actually believe something like that with all of the evidence to refute it. Thanks to you Duffy I think I have been afforded a glimpse in to this frame of mind.
people who are taking it to a different level 
