Schwarzenegger Names New Wildlife Director, Jobs Adviser - Both New Appointees Are Democrats

AP via NBC4.TV, CA ^ | January 20, 2004 | Associated Press

[calcowgirl]

SACRAMENTO -- Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger named a pair of Democrats Tuesday as his new Fish and Game director and new jobs adviser.

Loris "Ryan" Broddrick will head the Department of Fish and Game after a career with the department. He began in 1981 as a game warden and rose through the ranks to chief deputy director in 1997. He left the department in 2001 to join the western regional office of Ducks Unlimited as director of conservation policy.

Broddrick, 53, of Gold River, will earn $123,255. The position overseeing the $279 million, 2,000-employee department requires Senate confirmation.

Schwarzenegger also named David Crane as special adviser to the governor for jobs and economic growth, in charge of national and international marketing of California products and industries.

"David and I share the belief that California is the best place on earth for turning dreams into ideas, and ideas into great companies and entirely new industries," said Schwarzenegger, who has said jobs creation is his top goal.

Crane, 50, of San Francisco, previously worked at Babcock & Brown, a financial services firm headquartered in San Francisco. The firm had four employees when Crane joined in 1979, but now employs 450 people in 22 offices in 14 countries. The job pays $94,500 but does not require Senate confirmation.

[Grand Old Partisan]

So what?

[eskimo]

Everything thing in this state is contaminated with liberal slime, even the phony Republicans.

[Eska]

Democrat in charge of F&G means no predator control and greenies rather than hunters in prominent positions.

[blackdog]

Hey, California has a 2,000 fish and wildlife employee headcount? In Wisconsin we have over 4,000 and are 1/3 the size.

[omega4412]

But Broddrick is a former game warden and from Ducks Unlimited so he ought to be pro-conservation and pro-hunting.

[Grand Old Partisan]

The budget is Arnold's big problem, so it's probably advantageous to give Democrats a couple of relatively harmless posts.

[blackdog]

We are lambing right now. The coyotes are carrying on like an opera at night around our property. Since it's below zero, all the ewes are in the barn at night and once they lamb, they get locked up in the nursery.

I let a coyote hunter snipe them in the daylight and there is another one who hunts them with specially trained dogs. In the few hundred acres around our house they got 23 last year. There must be a hundred still in the area.

Our rule of thumb is that if there are rabbits you see along with plentiful roadkill deer, the coyotes won't take your stock. It's been a pretty accurate guage.

Eagles took two old ewes last year during the summer. They eat them by ripping strips of flesh from their back. If the old ewe puts up a struggle the eagle just rips the eyes out and dines on the blinded sheep like a salad bar.

Nature is nasty.

[calcowgirl]

Ping... FYI

I saw your announcement re: SB 512 (and emailed my senator).
Thought you might be interested in this.

[Eska]

Over the years been to a few F&G advisory meetings too, all politics and Don't you feel good now you think we are listening to your concerns.

You won't believe how many "I wanna kiss the wolves" greenies have wildlife biology degrees and are populating F&G departments, BLM, and fed parks; spouting; implementing their balance of nature lunacy. No joke.

[Tempest]

"Loris "Ryan" Broddrick will head the Department of Fish and Game after a career with the department. He began in 1981 as a game warden and rose through the ranks to chief deputy director in 1997. He left the department in 2001 to join the western regional office of Ducks Unlimited as director of conservation policy. "

Cool big hunting organization.

[Eska]

Just don't ever let them release wolves down there. Cyotes can't pull deer or moose down. In Alaska, each wolf kills 9-12 moose every winter and we have over 25,000 of the killing machines. Haven't had any predator control for 35 years and in rural areas on the verge of moose collapse. Without game management, balance of nature only allows 10 percent of moose production on the land. I go 20 miles on any trail before I cross a moose track. Use to be you'd see a track every couple hundred yards.

I keep a dogteam and cyotes will come in and yap at them but they are scared of my dogs. My dogs kinda get excited at seeing them; those cyotes not supposed to be off the chain. When wolves come in my dogs pretty much get terrified. My dogs will often try to mimic cyotes but they howl at the wolves. When wolves get in say 200 yards of cabin, the dogs bark, then into their houses they go; wimpering. I even put up spot lights and 6 foot high kennels and the wolves still will get within 20 yards of the kennels in the brush. Just see shadows and they're gone. Jumping up out of bed, running out on porch with ar gets old after a few times. Old wolf is way smarter than fox or cyotes. You can run cyotes down real easy on snowmachines and if snow isn't too deep usually dust them. Have seen guys catch wolves on lakes and ding them up then shoot them. Some guys really enjoy it as just when you are about to run him down, old wolf turns his teeth up at ya and trys to grab ski-doo. Anyway, You need to get some hounds and start having some fun with those cyotes. I really miss the coonhounds and foxhounds from back east.

We live up on the Yukon; I had minus 52 on sat but heard it was minus 59 down on river. Our Eagles eat salmon most of the year but I hear they take 25% of caribou in spring. Have seen ravens gang up and peck out dogs eyes.

Back east had an old farmer once clue me in on coons in my corn; prestone & dogfood; cleaned them right out.

Ya its pretty crazy how it is with predators these days; but when they directly affect you in this way or that; you see the truth of the matter. Don't need to hear all the balance of nature garbage.

[Carry_Okie]

The budget is Arnold's big problem, so it's probably advantageous to give Democrats a couple of relatively harmless posts.

Arnold hasn't got the guts to cut the budget.

Harmless? Fish and Game has brought the logging industry to its knees. Seeing as you must have liked last summer's fires in Los Angeles, there's bigger and better to come!

Then there's agriculture, California's largest industry. I don't suppose you care that they F&G is crushing small farmers with regulations on nonpoint TMDLs on ag sources.

Harmless indeed. Those are two enormous land uses that used to support traditionally Republican communities. I guess you think (without a shred of evidence) that environmental regulation doesn't have much of an effect on this State. Perhaps you'd best reconsider.

[Carry_Okie]

Cyotes can't pull deer or moose down.

Not true. They kill a lot of fawns.

[farmfriend]

The budget is Arnold's big problem, so it's probably advantageous to give Democrats a couple of relatively harmless posts.

Maybe he wants corporate farms like they are getting back east?

[Grand Old Partisan]

no

[Grand Old Partisan]

You're just PO'd that Arnold has turned out to be an excellent Governor.

[Carry_Okie]

You're just PO'd that Arnold has turned out to be an excellent Governor.

No, I'm just PO'd that a so-called Republican can't recognize a fascist con artist when he sees one.

[blackdog]

Coon cocktail is prestone and marshmallows floating in the pan. I don't do it because we have many domestic pets running around and would inevitably find the marshmallows.

I just put out a have-a-heart trap every night during spring, summer, and fall with an egg in it.

Too late on the wolves. They're here already. Not in signifigant numbers yet though.

[blackdog]

When I lived in South Carolina I was reading outside on my deck next to a large water garden/Koy pond I built. I was motionless, as I had stopped really reading and I was just listening to the water and the birds. Then I noticed it got really quiet except for the water. I looked up and saw a very large red wolf(if there is such a thing?) It was gigantic and stood motionless in a patch of oaks which were about 50 feet off the deck. It locked onto my eyes and this stare went on until the second I blinked. When I did, it did a 180 in a patch of crunchy fall leaves and silently disappeared in two strides. It's more like it flew than bounded.

I think most people have no idea how wildlife can and does adapt to areas we think are not hospitable to it.