When the protector becomes the problem, it’s time to stop

To the editor:

I find it unconscionable that the mortality rate of moose calves is by far highest in those calves captured and collared by researchers, thus causing their mothers to abandon them! And we’re talking about a huge number, not to mention loss of potential reproductive numbers had the calves lived.

So many anti-human, supposedly animal-minded plant-, air- and water-protecting people make life hell for people who wish to feed their families from the land, including hunting. When they themselves — the “greenies,” the anti-hunters, the put-everything-except-the-kitchen-sink-on-the-endangered-species-list zealots — become the biggest threat to healthy game populations, it’s time to take a stand!

There are more technologically advanced ways to track animals, including tiny chips that can be applied from a distance, or air tracking, or just being satisfied with the tons of data you already have — the data you bring forth each time you want to curtail hunters or place land off limits to visitors.

Maybe higher tech is higher cost, and we all know the primary reason for any 501(c)(3) organization is its own self-support. If you have consciences at all, seeing that most moose calf mortality is caused by interference from “researchers” should have made you self-govern by halting your actions. Instead, hunters have their opportunities curtailed by closed hunts or low permit numbers available due to low moose populations in some units.

When the protector becomes the problem, it’s time to stop.

Carol Neuerman

Palmer