Sunday, October 24, 2021

I'm still pissing tem off

 Well, hey faithful readers!

I want to apologize for not posting here more frequently, but I wanted to let ya'll know that I haven't shut up yet.


I was formerly wirting a column for a weekly rag, but I stopped because I was really rattling some cages and my real name was attached.  Haha

Well that's the short version.

 

Then I have been submitting testimony on proposed legislation regarding environmental issues but primarily issues concerning Fish and Wildlife.

That hasn't won me many fans either.  The NRA lobbyist whacked me on the way by with their briefcase at one meeting.  At another meeting a member shared an anecdote about getting a journalist out in the middle of nowhere in a canoe and having an "accident".

 

Not to be deterred, I regularly comment on the outdoor column on the online version of a Maine daily-and have accrued my share of haters over there too.

 

I am ashamed of Maine's policies regarding Wildlife.  I am angry about Lee Kantar's "Adaptive Moose hunt" which plans to remove 500 cows from one WMD in Western Maine  to see if less moose means less ticks.   


I have been ridiculed when I have pointed out the decline in Canada jay populations-which rely on old growth softwood (in Maine? no more!) They have been docuemted as consumers of winter ticks on moose.

no, because you see, the hunting lobbyists made sure that Maine DIFW changed their direction to "hunting as the preferred method of wildlife management."


Well dears, my mantra is the more the merrier.  INCREASE biodiversity. Let trees grow! Let populations balance themselves as much as possible.


Oh they were mad at me the other day.  I needed to "get a life" I needed to "drink warm milk so I could sleep through without worrying about coyote hounders"

 

Since that comment was in response to a post at 7:20 am I was really confused.

 

One day I might utilize this space to try and document all the residents I can claim on mine, granted I rank very high on "high value plant and animal habitiat" and try and expand it.

 

Let's start with trees tonight:

Red Oak,  Beech, Red Maple, Sugar Maple, Elm, Poplar, Eastern Hemlock, Eastern White Pine, Yellow birch, White  Birch, Ash, Balsam Fir.  Those are the big boys.

I leave any blowdowns, the hodgepdge of hangups are utilized by everything as above ground walkways.

I do pick up any hardwood branches and break them up for the woodstove.  I compost much. 

Yes, Get a Life- Life is too short.  Increasing biodiversity for the sake of the planet-and vicsiously verbally lashing those who destroy it, that seems a good enough life for me.



Thursday, October 21, 2021

From Maine with Love