Wolves, guiding outfits, rich hunters and the BC government

From a recent article in Counterpunch, “Wolf Sterilization Scheme Backfires“, about the BC government’s ill-conceived management prescription for wolves in the Muskwa-Kechika.

I can’t believe that they are still at it with the wolves and the moose in that area. It has been going on for more than 25 years. I don’t remember the year exactly but I think it was in the early part of the 80’s that I worked in a fire camp at Scoop Lake for a short time. Bill Bennett Jr. and the Socreds were in power then.

The Forest Service had started a controlled fire to burn off the underbrush meant to increase food for moose, and it got out of control. It subsequently cost them millions to fight their fire. Everything had to be flown in, from people to food, generators, refrigerators and tents.

By the time I went to work there, the fire was nearly out and there weren’t many people left in the camp. As a first aid attendant, I didn’t have much to do so I spent quite a bit of time riding around with the pilots in the choppers, exploring around the lake, and just talking to people. Many of the people remaining in the camp were natives who lived around the area, probably from Deas Lake.

When I first arrived, the shoreline fairly close to the camp was littered with 10 or 12 nearly decomposed wolf carcasses. One of the natives told me that he’d worked on a wolf kill the winter before. He wasn’t happy about what he did, but there was no jobs up there and they had to take what they could get. They flew around in small planes or choppers shooting the wolves then for some strange reason they picked up the bodies and dumped them onto the middle of the lake. As it was winter, of course when the ice and snow melted the bodies gradually washed ashore. Because it was far north and cold much of the year, it took a long time for them to decompose.

Our drinking water came from the lake, but it really didn’t seem to bother too many of the other people in the camp that dead wolves were laying all over the shore and rotting in the water. Big shots from the forest service and probably some political hacks used to fly into the camp. They’d congregate around the maps which were tacked onto the side of the first aid tent because it had the only wooden walls in the camp. They would stand there swilling coffee, maybe laced with a good shot of whiskey, curse like sailors for awhile then fly out again.

I was really bothered by the whole scene, the dead wolves and the extreme waste of resources. I knew some of the pilots who ferried in the big shots. I’d take them around on walks to see the bones while they were waiting, and tell them of what I’d heard… the goings on with the wolf kill and the politics of the valley. Then all of a sudden one day the bones disappeared. I never found out who moved them. There was no doubt plenty more on the far side of the lake but I wasn’t able to get over there.

I remember all the fuss over the wolf kill the year before. I remember how Greenpeace was trying to get in to the valley and stop it, and nobody would rent them a plane or fly them in. Some of them even attempted to walk in but if you’ve ever flown over that area you would see how futile that idea was. At any rate, they weren’t able to stop it. I don’t know how many wolves were slaughtered, but plenty were dumped into that lake.

The thing that really got me when I was flying around in the choppers was just how many moose there were up there. It was crawling with moose, the whole area was like a big bustling moose city. They were everywhere. The gov’t had also recently airlifted in some elk and they were just getting established, but they were on the far side of the valley at the time and I don’t remember seeing any.

At that time, there were 2 guiding outfits in the valley. One was right next to the fire camp. I was told that he was a great buddy of the Minister of Environment, and that made sense. There was no other reason for the wolf kill, or for the controlled burn. The wolf kill was because the guiding outfits just didn’t want the competition for their $1,000 /day hunts. The burn was so that the underbrush could be cleared out in order to feed the masses of moose that were there. And they had to have some political pull to make that happen.

When I left, there wasn’t much left of the fire camp. As I was flying out, I could see a guy from the guiding outfit closest to the camp hauling tents and other booty away. I have no doubt that everything including the fridges and generators were left for him because it would have cost more to fly it out again than to leave it.

I have lots of pictures that I took of the camp, stuck away in a box somewhere. I also still have a wolf tooth, which was all that was left when they took the rest of the bodies away.

LOVE and PEACE,

Ree

Originally published Friday, July 21, 2006

 

The Totalitarian Tiptoe to the North American Union

U.S. jets could patrol Vancouver during Olympics: Norad

CALGARY – American fighter jets will be involved in security operations during the Vancouver Olympics by keeping a close eye on airspace in the region, the head of the North American Aerospace Defence Command said Saturday. more

This is a typical propaganda piece. Note that the title of the article says “could” and the first paragraph says “will”. The American military will be overtly flying our skies during the olympic boondoggle. Its not like they aren’t overhead all the time filling the air with their chemtrail toxins, but incredibly most on the ground don’t even notice that.

 

Makah Renegades Viciously Slaughter a Grey Whale

From Seattle Times: Makah tribal officials are dismayed over whale kill; whaler captain has no regrets

In most respects regarding rights and land claims I agree totally with the natives. But sorry Makah, not this time. In this day and age, there is absolutely no reason to be harpooning, machine gunning or otherwise killing or harming whales. Yes, I know this “hunt” wasn’t sanctioned by the tribe, however the impression is that the tribal elders are more concerned that it will complicate their efforts to legally kill whales again.

In days long past, people used to shout fair warning to passers by as they emptied their chamber pots out a second story window.

“Gardyloo!”

Traditions change, sometimes even for the better. Whale killing as a tradition is more offensive and destructive than emptying a piss pot on someone’s head and it needs to disappear forever.

 

Monsanto unveils their new frozen dinner entre

Art by David Dees

 

Update on dryer sheets vs ants…

It works! Bugs and critters are smart enough to know whats not healthy to be around.

We had an ant problem in the carport and so we stuffed a bunch of dryer sheets around their routes. The ants have all moved on. I’m going to cram some around the foundation of the house this fall too, maybe it will keep the rodents out.

No need to buy the expensive brand name dryer sheets like Bounce, the cheap ones from the dollar store did the trick. They must all use the same toxins.

 

US Navy threatening whales again with their murderous sonar

They won’t take NO for an answer. The American navy plans to start using a sonar system so powerful it can harm whales and other ocean life 300 miles away with its ear-splitting noise.

Five years ago, NRDC won a courtroom victory blocking global deployment of this dangerous sonar system just as the Navy was about to launch operations. Since then, the Navy’s training with LFA sonar has been limited to one remote area.

Now the Navy is back with the same reckless proposal for world-wide testing and training. And, shockingly, the National Marine Fisheries Service is once again giving the Navy a permit to harass or injure hundreds of thousands of marine mammals each year that get in the way of its sonar.

 

“Mysterious Skies” in the Arctic are not so mysterious

…a clear sign that part of our atmosphere is changing, but scientists do not currently know how, why or what this means… more

The long criss crossing streaks in these “clouds” indicate that they are chemtrails.

I’ve seen similar unnatural phenomena myself at night, as well as sunsets in the east caused by the aluminum particles in the sky.

These cowardly weather scientists are afraid to say anything about chemtrails for fear of losing their jobs or worse. This makes them complicit in the coverup. But of course, global warming is always a handy and lucrative scapegoat.

 

Be wary of food labeled “All Natural”

I’ve seen shoppers pick up junk food and go… “hmm… all natural…” and toss it into their buggy thinking they were getting something healthy.

This excellent article from News Target explains how the food corporations use misleading labeling to trick people into buying their toxic junk food.

Don’t be fooled by “all natural” claims on foods and grocery products

…the truth is that food manufacturers can use just about any ingredients or processes they want while still claiming their foods are all-natural. They can take whole wheat berries from nature, mill them down and strip out 98% of the nutrients, bleach the flour with chemicals, “enrich” the flour with synthetic chemical vitamins, and then claim their wheat is “all natural.”

And why is it natural? Because it comes from the earth, they would say. It was grown by nature.

Sure it was, but then it was physically and chemically modified, adulterated, contaminated and altered in ways that destroy its natural properties. The final product has no resemblance to anything truly natural.

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Of course the corporations can get away with misleading the public because the government is bought and paid for, and firmly in their pocket.

 

Every Marketer’s Worst Nightmare

Over the past few years, I’ve evolved into every marketer’s worst nightmare. I rarely buy anything new and I’m never tempted by ads. When I do pay attention to an ad, its only to analyze it for its technique for conning the buyer. When I buy something new its because its something that I really need, and that I can’t find used.

95% of everything offered for sale in 95% of the stores nowadays is manufactured in sweatshops in China… cheaply priced, cheaply made disposible trash. The one clothing store that I occasionally bought something new has recently sold out to China. Their clothes used to be made in Canada, now they are labeled:

“Made in China”
“Designed in Canada”

Unreal. As if being “Designed in Canada” is supposed to impress one into overlooking the fact that they just got rid of more good Canadian jobs and farmed the work out to sweatshops overseas.

By avoiding stores, I’m not going without by any stretch of the imagination. I’ve easily outfitted myself in a new wardrobe by shopping in garage sales, and I get better quality than what’s available in stores now. And not only clothing, but books, music, small appliances, kitchenware and much more. Ebay is also a good option for deals. Some thrift stores are excellent, but the big ones like Salvation Army have taken to grossly overpricing their things. Anyhow, Salvation Army is not a favorite of mine, but that’s another story for another time.

 

Toxic Smelly Dryer Sheets

It was too cold and wet to use the clothes line so I had just put a load of laundry into the dryer. I was looking out the window at the mist gliding across the lawn from the dryer vent. Conditions were such that the cloud wasn’t disappearing as it usually does, instead it visibly rolled along more than 40 feet over to the brush along the edge of the lawn, where the birds and other little animals live. It was a good illustration of how connected we all are to all things.

If I had been using a commercial fabric softener, the cloud would have been toxic.

It turns out that dryer sheets consist of chemicals with unpronounceable names like Alpha-Terpineol, Benzyl Acetate, Linalool, Pentane. In other words, they are full of cancer causing, brain damaging chemicals and they belong in a toxic waste dump and not on your children’s clothing, or vented outside to affect the little critters in your yard. To see what is actually in these things, click here.