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Call to restock North America’s large mammals (Lions, Tigers,Bears Alert)
NewScientist.com ^ | 18:00 17 August 2005 | Kurt Kleiner

Posted on 08/17/2005 10:56:34 AM PDT by 11th_VA

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To: 11th_VA

These people are idiots.


61 posted on 08/17/2005 11:25:47 AM PDT by conservativewasp (Liberals lie for sport and hate their country.)
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To: 11th_VA

http://www.gprc.org/Million_Acre_Project/Rieke_NCUR.pdf

Original paper on the subject. 24 pages. Large file size due to graphics.

Interesting fact, a large section of land they want to buy has been losing human population for over 2 decades.


62 posted on 08/17/2005 11:28:06 AM PDT by JerseyHighlander
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To: 11th_VA
This is as stupid as "re-introducing" wolves to Idaho. The original wolves in Idaho were about 65 lb canines. What was "introduced" are much larger Canadian wolves. Roughly 120 lb canines. They kill livestock for fun and decimate the herds of deer, moose and elk that were previously managed with controlled hunting seasons. There is less to hunt each year.

California went on a mountain lion protection binge. Now the mountain lions are so numerous that they are coming into populated areas to find food after cleaning out the wild lands. More contact with people. More attacks and killings.

There is no end to what tree hugging nutcases will propose. The fish huggers want to breach dams that provide drinking water, agricultural irrigation and electricity generation...so we can have a few more salmon of the type that are found in many other rivers and streams.

63 posted on 08/17/2005 11:30:09 AM PDT by Myrddin
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To: 11th_VA

These people really need to re-evaluate their career choices.


64 posted on 08/17/2005 11:31:26 AM PDT by sageb1 (This is the Final Crusade. There are only 2 sides. Pick one.)
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To: Dead Corpse

lol! I like the way you think :)


65 posted on 08/17/2005 11:33:05 AM PDT by sageb1 (This is the Final Crusade. There are only 2 sides. Pick one.)
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To: sageb1

Danke. I try not to make a habit of it. Thinking that is. Could get a guy into trouble. ;-)


66 posted on 08/17/2005 11:34:21 AM PDT by Dead Corpse (Never underestimate the will of the downtrodden to lie flatter.)
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To: 11th_VA
Good idea if we can hunt them. Otherwise, it's mental masturbation.

5.56mm

67 posted on 08/17/2005 11:35:22 AM PDT by M Kehoe
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To: 11th_VA

This could work. Yesterday, we had a long story about "Catman" a decendent of the blond haired Huron-Lakota band of the GoonyBird tribe. He could be the head ranger. Move him unto the reservation where he could commune with the big cats and their other prey. He could guard the elefunks and camels and donkeys (no, not the donkeys) from the lions and tigers and leopards and such. Hell, he could move in with pride and suckle at the teat of the momma lion and really become one with them. Infact he could become part of their digestive tract.


68 posted on 08/17/2005 11:36:19 AM PDT by Bar-Face
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To: Hoodlum91
Aren't there already elephants in Oklahoma where "the corn is as high as an elephant's eye?"

IMHO we already have too many Asses and Elephants in our country, usually found slinking around government buildings looking for a handout ;-)

69 posted on 08/17/2005 11:40:06 AM PDT by varon (Allegiance to the constitution, always. Allegiance to a political party, never.)
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To: JerseyHighlander

That's a cool study - can't believe that map showing unploughed areas though ...


70 posted on 08/17/2005 11:40:21 AM PDT by 11th_VA (http://vdare.com/guzzardi/0508013_mortgages.htm)
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To: don-o
Where are they gonna get Giant Sloths, Saber Toothed Tigers, Mastodons and/or Wooly Mammoths?................

Easy. Didn't you see Jurassic Park?

So, all of the Survivor and Amazing Race fans were right...

Rob'n' Amber really is the end of our civilization.

SD

71 posted on 08/17/2005 11:40:55 AM PDT by SoothingDave
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To: 11th_VA

I like this idea. Build one fence along the whole length of the Mexican border, and a second fence 10 miles inland. Take everything in between and make it a "prehistoric preserve" stocked with lions, tigers, and other warm weather big cats :)


72 posted on 08/17/2005 11:41:56 AM PDT by Arthalion
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To: 11th_VA
Elephants, lions, cheetahs and camels could one day roam the western US under a proposal to recreate North American landscapes as they existed more than 13,000 years ago, when humans first encountered them.

Why only go back 13,000 years? I say we restore the earth to it's pristine state by exterminating all life on the planet.

73 posted on 08/17/2005 11:43:29 AM PDT by TheDon (The Democratic Party is the party of TREASON!)
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To: 11th_VA

I think it said they would be in "preserves" so the jokes about hunting them or being attacked by them probably wouldn't be realistic, I still think it's a stupid idea anyway I would rather do it with more traditional North American Wildlife, I like how preserves work in comparison to zoos because they can roam around and do whatever they do and interact but are protected and can't get out, kind of like those parks where you drive through and feed them with a bucket out your window haha but bigger and not sectioned off and with better safari like tours, I also like the idea of preserving elephants for obvious reasons.


74 posted on 08/17/2005 11:44:49 AM PDT by Nomad817
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To: Mrs. Don-o
How deep does the rabbit hole go?

Are people just losing their minds?

75 posted on 08/17/2005 11:52:02 AM PDT by don-o (Don't be a Freeploader. Do the right thing and become a Monthly Donor!)
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To: 11th_VA
Between 50,000 and 10,000 years ago, 97 of 150 genera of large mammals disappeared from around the world.

It's Bush's fault!

Mark

76 posted on 08/17/2005 11:53:53 AM PDT by MarkL (It was a shocking cock-up. The mice were furious!)
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To: Regulator

saltwater crocodiles

Cheers!


77 posted on 08/17/2005 11:54:44 AM PDT by SZonian (Tagline???? I don't need no stinkin' tagline!)
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To: 11th_VA

Do we get to hunt em'...?


78 posted on 08/17/2005 11:55:40 AM PDT by Texans
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To: cripplecreek
Hippos in the Rio Grande.

Only if they've been eating too many frijoles refritos.

79 posted on 08/17/2005 11:57:13 AM PDT by Redcloak (We'll raise up our glasses against evil forces singin' "whiskey for my men and beer for my horses!")
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To: 11th_VA

These people obviously need to get a life of their own, and quit trying to F up everyone elses. This type of project would render many people's property essentially worthless, due to preditors. Even if it were public property, there would be many places, if not most, that would be inaccessable to humans due to the every present danger.

Can't express how contemptable I find this suggestion to be.


80 posted on 08/17/2005 12:19:09 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (US socialist liberalism would be dead without the help of politicians who claim to be conservative.)
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