Well I don't think any biologist is going to cry over 89 snows biting the bullet when seasons are set on them to try to reach a harvest rate of 1 million per year to keep them in check. Their numbers have reached the point years ago that they are destroying the tundra. It took over a decade of spring conservation hunts with regulations being changed each year hoping to hit needed harvest numbers without success until the 2014 season when the 1,000,000 in a year harvest goal was reached and biologists claim that number could do nothing if maintained for the next 20 years but check the current production levels and nothing to reduce overall numbers. Now its sad that birds are killed in power lines each year but what is the alternative? I know nothing about high voltage carrying systems. Are they able to transfer that kind of power in buried cables or is that even more of a safety concern? His assessment of some of the damage to the birds was kind of a bit off in my opinion. Those birds didn't break apart on impact with the ground as he suggested on one or two. That is from that much electricity blowing them apart. I know a gentleman who touched a wire with his grain auger, not even a high tension wire and it blew the top of his skull off and he lost a leg from the knee down as well. How he even survived is anyone's guess? He shoots trap with us each summer. Has a plastic plate for a skull cap.
