Alaska Mining Rush of '79...and now it's time again— Page 4 of 5

My point? Rural Alaskan’s understand that conservation is, as the dictionary says, all about the prevention of excessive or wasteful use of a resource. Unfortunately outsiders who have grown up differing to academics who have made a good living selling books to their students about their “scientific” summertime vacation to Aleska, the Great Land, don’t know what they are talking about. We have had the stupidity of David Letterman (a Montana weekend ranch owner with a fear of bears) supporting that Malibu Dude causing nine beloved Alaskan grizzlies being killed in the name of “?” misunderstanding. In the harshness of winter we have ended up protecting out of balance wolves wiping out defenseless out of balance Dahl Sheep herds.

We also understand that one-sided “conservation” legislation as the Jones Act has 65 percent of Alaska’s travel dollar going to environmentalist “friendly” foreign “oil burning” tourist monopoly that dumps dry-cleaning chemicals into the open to bathtub known as the Inside Passage. What is your position on that Sierra Club?

Because of our connectivity with this world, where everyday people’s role needs to consider conservation, we wonder how it is in these days of mad cow disease, how the politically incorrect people that support paper-pushing stockbrokers by supplying healthy calves, a product of a natural and humane lifestyle, to abusive feedlots, will survive. One answer, of course, is to specialize in the new yuppie-puppy trend of organically grown Buffalo. How is that again— a wild animal being protected by well meaning, tax supported, politically correct groups is now being slaughtered for the benefit of a wealthy few? By the way the meat doesn't come close to the flavor of moose, or caribou (reindeer).