Gaethje passing by Teddy Roosevelt, moments before he beats the shit out of the foreign sitting champion on the South Lawn in front of a crowd of 80,000. This is America.
American, never let foreigners shame you about how we protect our wildlife.
Americans invented the field of wildlife biology (Aldo Leopold) integrating biology, ecology, and management. We were the first to create a national university system (starting with the University of Wisconsin’s program) to systematize the discipline of wildlife biology and grow our impact across species and systems. This professionalized wildlife science and management worldwide.
Americans created the world’s first national parks establishing the idea of setting aside public land for wildlife and recreation. Our model is emulated globally. I have half a dozen senior fish and wildlife professionals at any given time that come to study with us to learn how we do it and bring what we know back home.
Americans invented the idea of wildlife as a public trust (you own all of our wildlife, not a lord or a private land owner like in much of the old world). We passed laws to require rigorous science based management to inform hunting seasons. We saw the early errors of our ways and ended commercial game markets that decimated our big game. We invented the “user pays” system where hunters and anglers fund conservation via licenses and excise taxes on guns and ammo to the tune of $50 billion since our programs began.
All of these innovations enabled the most dramatic and remarkable wildlife population recoveries on record. Bison, reduced to ~1000 now number half a million thanks to public land, science, and management. White tailed deer were nearly eliminated by 1900 now see numbers greater than 30 million. Wild turkey, my favorite example of a major conservation innovation in our trap and transfer programs (paid for by hunters) recovered spectacularly. Elk, beaver, birds of prey, pronghorn, the list goes on and on. America has also done more than any other nation in human history to fund global wildlife conservation as well. Billions of taxpayer dollars sent to Africa, LatAm, and Asia to protect wildlife and train local scientists, a largely thankless gift from the US taxpayer.
Saying that our wildlife has been “exterminated” is just an insane and ignorant claim to make but don’t let that stop you from weighing in on our affairs!
8AM and Rodeo Professor has already got me irritated at ostensibly wildlife focused NGOs again (they're actually just commies who hate us and don't care about animals at all)
The first auto brand to make a pickup with ZERO TECH will sell out so fast it'll make their head spin. No brain, no GPS...just engine, transmission, rear end, and get the hell outta my way:)
The Army’s birthday, repping the set. Elevate the Army: Require Rangers to eventually return to conventional units to share their elite training, discipline, and expertise, improving the overall U.S. military.
Hang another wolf pelt on the shed, Jed: https://t.co/3MAgEVsBto
And tell us, again, how this grotesque exercise in state-sponsored animal cruelty is helping wildlife. Tell us, again, just how much you and the hubby care about animals.
#copolitics#coleg@GovofCO@COParksWildlife
#rewilding #rewildingcolorado
@NickKnudsenUS How about a round of applause for the 4,400 employees of SpaceX who became millionaires?
Don’t they deserve the respect of working hard and getting lovely stock options that have taken the everyday working man/woman and totally changed their lives?
Weird how you forget them.
Civilians will have difficulty understanding what I’m about to say.
But all we ever wanted in GWOT was to be as far away from the “flagpole” as possible.
To be off on our own in the hinterlands.
Getting shot at every day was preferable to the insufferable helicopter parenting the large bases were famous for.
So yes. We would rather be placed in a higher risk situation for our personal safety than suffer through some idiot yelling at us for not wearing a PT belt on a FOB.
It was these same people who would turn us away from the chow hall because we were too dirty after battle.
We would rather risk death on our own than be ruled by risk averse midwits.
@BravoKiloActual Aron is an idiot and should be far far away from being a rep for hunting and conservation, this is cruel and sick. You wanna kill a coyote kill em quick. This is gross
This isn't right...
Republican voters have an orange return envelope for their ballot.
Unaffiliated voters have an purple return envelope.
If someone wanted to tamper with ballots, this makes it easier...
Why not just use the same return envelope for everyone?