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>>Have you been to Lakota Wolf Preserve? If not, YOU HAVE TO GO!!!! <<

Havn't been. Will check it out at some point.

I would like to add that _MOST_ of the bears taken in NJ this year were likely taken within about 20 miles of my house, most being taken within 5 miles.

And to add to that, we had Worm sign...ur, strike that...Bear sign in our yard today. Fresh.

That gives me hope. I wanted the bears thinned...I didn't want decimation.

Make it a priority to got to Lakota.

When we did rural med in NC...we had fresh bear. It makes a great stew.

If you bag one, let me know. I will freep mail you prep instructions.

Better than deer.

Sorry for the fresh signs. Bag it and don't tell authorities.

More Nuke help from our ex friends to China:

Copyright © 2003 The International Herald Tribune | www.iht.com

Deal to sell atom plant puts Berlin aide in bind
Richard Bernstein/NYT
Tuesday, December 9, 2003

BERLIN A bit over 10 years ago, when he was the Minister for the Environment in the state of Hesse, Joschka Fischer, who is Germany's Foreign Minister, was one of the most visible leaders in a successful fight against a nuclear enrichment plant built by the industrial giant Siemens.

Now Fischer finds himself in an embarrassing public position and at odds with many in his own Green Party over his failure to oppose the sale of the plant, which never went into operation, to China, a deal announced last week by Chancellor Gerhard Schröder of Germany during an official visit to Beijing.

Schröder, in China with a group of German business leaders, said that the government would have no legal reasons for preventing the sale of the plant, and Fischer has resisted pressure from within the Green Party publicly to oppose the chancellor's decision.

In his only public comment on the matter, Fischer said last week that sometimes "bitter decisions" have to be made. But to many in the press and among the public, Germany's willingness to sell nuclear technology abroad clashes too conspicuously with the German government's official anti-nuclear-power position.

Indeed, the present policy is for all 19 of the nuclear power plants now operating eventually to be shut down. A month ago, the Environment Minister, Jürgen Trittin, one of three members of the Green Party who hold cabinet posts in Schröder's coalition government, was in attendance when the first of the plants, in Stade near the northern city of Hamburg, was closed. "Will Foreign Minister Fischer now sell to the Chinese the nuclear plant which he fought against as Hesse environmental minister?" the left-leaning daily Tagespiegel asked in an editorial last week.

"The Greens need to watch out that they don't lose sight of their own principles in attempting to treat their coalition partner with caution." In Beijing last week, Schröder, asked at a press conference about the pending deal between Siemens and China, said: "I've always said that the company that wants to sell this plant has a right to claim a license for the deal, provided the plant is not used for military purposes." He cited Chinese assurances that Beijing had no intention of putting the plant to military use and that, in any case, it would not be possible to do so. Consequently, he continued, "In my opinion in this case, we do not have any possibilities for a political decision; the law has to be implemented."

The Siemens plant, initially built at a cost of about $220 million has been sitting unused ever since construction on it ceased 12 years ago. According to experts in Germany, it is a fuel-rod enrichment facility that could only be used to make weapons-grade materials if it were combined with another rare enrichment technology, which China, already a nuclear power, does not possess. China has offered $55 million for the plant, a sum that has already provoked sardonic commentary in the German press.

"Everything Must Go!" was the headline in the tageszeitung over the weekend, likening Germany to a discount department store. Adding to the discomfiture of the government is a bid by a German-French consortium, in which Siemens is a major partner, to sell a nuclear power plant to Finland, a contract that could bring several hundred jobs to Germany at a time of high unemployment.

The issue for the government here is a Finnish demand for German loan guarantees, without which the German-French bid would likely fail. Some Green politicians have said they were taken by surprise by Schröder's announcement in Beijing, and all indications are that Fischer was too.

The New York Times