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Since I live on the edge of a 1/4 million acre wilderness and a million acre national forest, I know the locals who hunt in the high country usually riding in on "4 wheelers" finding a herd and shooting what they want, or have permits for, then hauling them out with the gasoline powering 4 wheeler - some on horseback, sure, some on foot even - but if there is the kind of economic collapse that I seem to take for granted now - where will that leave our national forests?
What if the national forest system becomes in part or whole seriously decapitated or even abandoned ? Not so far fetched, I think? If things got bad enough, what would our government choose to maintain - it would be analogous to our bodies cutting circulation to our limbs when core temperature is threatened, reserving what we have our core with its vital organs - exactly what we'd be looking at? The government who runs the society in which I live but do not actually have a real democratic vote seems to value most highly the military - almost sacrosanct? So consider that like the heart, I guess? Like all of us, I suppose, the government thinks highly of itself so it will remain most likely intact with full pensions and all - so what else? Police and security - O that's HUGE - got to keep that pump protected!
So you see how far down on the priorities something like the National Forest could be?
But my neighbors if left unpoliced could and would wipe out the elk very quickly along with other large game like mountain goat, deer and even black bear around here, hunting with dogs just like the hillbillies in Virginia (sorry not meaning to judge, really, but seems distasteful though not my point) and this would happen all up and down the Rockies as elsewhere, I imagine - highly motivated hunters both skilled and armed literally to the teeth, man - don't think bozos who shoot each other, seriously, lot of these guys really no what they're doing and if food was scarce and times were scary and forest service personel were absent, I was thinking that they could do the damn damn on wildlife really all across the country and pretty quick, I'd imagine?
What if the national forest system becomes in part or whole seriously decapitated or even abandoned ? Not so far fetched, I think? If things got bad enough, what would our government choose to maintain - it would be analogous to our bodies cutting circulation to our limbs when core temperature is threatened, reserving what we have our core with its vital organs - exactly what we'd be looking at? The government who runs the society in which I live but do not actually have a real democratic vote seems to value most highly the military - almost sacrosanct? So consider that like the heart, I guess? Like all of us, I suppose, the government thinks highly of itself so it will remain most likely intact with full pensions and all - so what else? Police and security - O that's HUGE - got to keep that pump protected!
So you see how far down on the priorities something like the National Forest could be?
But my neighbors if left unpoliced could and would wipe out the elk very quickly along with other large game like mountain goat, deer and even black bear around here, hunting with dogs just like the hillbillies in Virginia (sorry not meaning to judge, really, but seems distasteful though not my point) and this would happen all up and down the Rockies as elsewhere, I imagine - highly motivated hunters both skilled and armed literally to the teeth, man - don't think bozos who shoot each other, seriously, lot of these guys really no what they're doing and if food was scarce and times were scary and forest service personel were absent, I was thinking that they could do the damn damn on wildlife really all across the country and pretty quick, I'd imagine?
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