Study: Snowmobiles May Not Impact Wildlife

AP ^ | 12/14/5

[Atlas Sneezed]

"Snowmobiles May Not Impact Wildlife"

That sounds like not only a good regulation to protect wildlife, but it would also cut down on operator injuries.

[jackbenimble]

Sounds like a case of honest science. It is rare for the environmental whackos to let facts and the truth get in the way of their agenda.

[msnimje]

[Gator101]

Snowmobiles May Not Impact Wildlife

Probably because it's so easy to hear those things coming but I bet if you caught a deer out in the open in deep snow you could impact some wildlife quite nicely.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

"In 81 percent of the interactions, the animals either had no apparent response, or they looked and then resumed what they were doing, the study said."

We should have enough snow after this current storm to take the sleds up to the top of the Big Hill on the Back Forty.

I'll ask the deer (who normally IGNORE us as we drive by) what they think and will let you know, LOL! They pretty much ignore ME when they come into my orchard to help themselves to apples. :)

[al baby]

[Right Wing Assault]

"Snowmobiles May Not Impact Wildlife"

However, they ARE allowed to impact domesticated animals, fences, and boulders.

Reminds me of the sign, "Fine for littering".

[IronJack]

I wonder how much the taxpayers paid for a study that involved observing a bunch of "wildlife" (whatever that is), a bunch of snowmobilers, then the wildlife again. The conclusion? Once the snowmobiles went by, the wildlife resumed business as usual.

What did they expect? Wholesale stampedes? Riots? A rush of wildlife to the ranger's office to apply for permits? A rash of picnic basket thefts?

[xcamel]

Oh really?

[jwalsh07]

I don't know about that. In my younger days snowmobiles, Irish Whiskey and the fields on a farm in upstate NY definitley impacted a wildlife.

[Irish_Thatcherite]

Study: Snowmobiles May Not Impact Wildlife

I may not post a comment...

[End Times Sentinel]

Most elk, bison and trumpeter swans

Well duh.  I don't know what a trumpeter swan is, but elk and bison are pretty damn big and the last think I want to hit while snow mobiling.  On the other hand, there's nothing quite like the thump and subsequent honking of a Canadian Goose.  They sound like an accordion being dropped off the Washington monument when you whack those bastards.

Owl_Eagle

"You know, I'm going to start thanking
the woman who cleans the restroom in
the building I work in.  I'm going to start
thinking of her as a human being"

-Hillary Clinton

(Yes, she really said that

Peggy Noonan

The Case Against Hillary Clinton, pg 55)

[GLDNGUN]

Study: Snowmobiles May Not Impact Wildlife

That's a relief. I can finally get a good night's sleep tonight.

[xcamel]

There was a picture on the wall up in Old Forge of a ski-doo that hit a moose... not much left.

[wyattearp]

However, they ARE allowed to impact domesticated animals, fences, and boulders.

Domesticated boulders? Mind you, I'm not claiming that fences and boulders cannot be domesticated, but I do wonder how you would notice the difference if they were. ;-)

[muawiyah]

Deer around here regularly leap off hillsides right onto automobiles, frequently killing the occupants.

They simply don't care.

[muawiyah]

If that critter is flying, or thinks he's flying, he's a reindeer ~ an elk ~ and not a white tail deer.

[jwalsh07]

There's a picture in an old photoalbum showing one side of my uppr body a scab and the other perfectly normal and almost perfectly symmetrical. It happens when the driver and the snowmobile switch places.

[Right Wing Assault]

Mind you, I'm not claiming that fences and boulders cannot be domesticated, but I do wonder how you would notice the difference if they were.

The boulders in my yard are domesticated. The ones out in the woods are wild. Same for fences.