Re: Wildlife initiative

[bill london <london@moscow.com>]

Bob:
    Your goal of professionally-controlled wildlife management decisions
in Idaho is a noble and sensible one.  As you noted in your message:
"Whenever the citizens have taken the wildlife management decisions away
from the professionals disaster is usually quick to follow."
    I agree with you.
    The problem is that the citizens (politically-organized hunting
groups, etc) have ALREADY taken wildlife decision-making in Idaho away
from the professionals at the Idaho Fish and Game Department and
substituted their own irrational, emotional, kill-everything-but-the-elk
philosophy for real wildlife management.
    We may well need the statewide democratic initiative process to get
things back on track some day.  That's why I think Tom Trail is making a
mistake backing this kind of bill.
BL


Bob Hassoldt wrote:

>       When it comes to citizen control of wildlife
> decisions I would have to support Tom Trail's decision
> in a big way. Whenever the citizens have taken the
> wildlife management decisions away from the
> professionals disaster is usually quick to follow.
> Uninformed citizens making wildlife decisions based on
> total ignorance and emotions are by far the worst
> thing that can happen to wildlife, both game and
> non-game, and their habitats. No Mr. London, while I
> have a great respect for your writing ability, I
> wouldn't trust you any further than I could throw the
> 1912 center when it came to you making a decision on
> what is best for the wildlife of Idaho.
> Bob Hassoldt
>
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