Posted on 10/13/2018 10:13:59 AM PDT by Simon Green
Idaho Fish and Game Commissioner Blake Fischer shared photos of his guided hunting trip in Africa with friends and colleagues when he returned last month, expecting they’d appreciate his success.
Instead, several former Fish and Game commissioners are pushing for his resignation — with a photo of a “family of baboons” that Fischer shot with a recurve bow prompting most of the outrage.
Fred Trevey, who was a Fish and Game commissioner from 2007 to 2015, wrote Fischer an email asking him to resign “to shield the commission as an institution and hunting as a legitimate tool of wildlife management from the harm that is sure to come.”
“I’m sure what you did was legal, however, legal does not make it right,” Trevey wrote in the email obtained by the Idaho Statesman through a public records request filed with the governor’s office. “... Sportsmanlike behavior is the center pin to maintaining hunting as a socially acceptable activity.”
Former commissioner Tony McDermott (2005-13) emailed a member of Gov. Butch Otter’s staff to say he and six other named former commissioners “agree with Fred Trevey’s approach to this potentially explosive issue.” Three of the eight former commissioners, including Trevey, were on Fischer’s email distribution list.
Of the six people named by McDermott, one told the Statesman he emailed Fischer to suggest he resign, one said a public apology would suffice, two said they hadn’t consented to having their names attached to McDermott’s email and two couldn’t be reached. McDermott didn’t respond to an interview request; he’s out hunting, Trevey said.
Keith Stonebraker of Lewiston, who was a commissioner from 1976 to 1987, said a public apology would satisfy him.
“They killed a whole family, including small baboons, and I think that’s revolting,” “... It just puts a bad light on us.”
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’ Baboons raid crops and sometimes attack humans. Thinning their numbers with sport hunting makes perfect sense.
Shooting endangered species is not a career booster.
It does NOT make you look manly to kill an ape who does not know how to use a bow and arrow.
Hint hint go for the deer hint.
Shoot the species there are plenty of, hint.
Baboons aren’t endangered.
Shoot the species there are plenty of, hint.
Like....baboons?
Abortion is legal, too. Do you support it!!!!?
This guy hunted ‘em with a bow and arrow. Over in Africa (Zimbabwe and South Africa at least) the farmers and game rangers use assault rifles...I chat once in a while with a Zim farmer who went through all the bureaucratic hoops to get an FN-FAL for that very reason.
wrote Fischer an email asking him to resign “to shield the commission as an institution and hunting as a legitimate tool of wildlife management from the harm that is sure to come.”
Except that's exactly what Fish and Game does. It determines the number of a given species, say deer, elk, or bears, in a given area and determine what that number should be to keep the species healthy as a whole. That's how they decide how many tags to issue in any given year for hunting.
I personally don't see how anyone could enjoy killing a bear but intellectually I know they can over populate making it hard on all (black) bears in an area. That's why we see them coming down out of their forests into human populated area (like Phoenix) to look for food.
No one wants to see a healthy plant and animal life more than hunters. Not even conservationists. Hunters want to be able to come back year after year to enjoy nature. Most leave their camping and hunting sites (and surrounding area) better than how they found them. It's their way of giving back.
Why go to Africa when we have so many here?
Never apologize. In fact, tell them to stuff it.
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Baboons are a pestilence in Africa similar to coyotes.
“Baboons raid crops and sometimes attack humans”
Is there any referenceable data from the country of the hunt that indicates this is a problem that needs to be managed?
I could be convinced.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RX0A_PTuQCQ
Crop raiding:
http://wiredspace.wits.ac.za/bitstream/handle/10539/9281/Govan%20Pahad%20MSc%20thesis.pdf?sequence=1
Just a couple of links out of many.
He resigned.
What an idiot. How about using some common sense.
Where are there baboons in the US?
In Congress and Academia.
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