Re: LETS GO TO WAR I GOT MY TOOTHBRUSH

From: |-|erc (spam_at_fodder.abc)
Date: 10/15/04 

Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2004 01:41:55 GMT

for Dan in sci.logic

"Geoffw" <gwinnet@hotmail.com> wrote in
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> "Unknown" <thisandthat@hereandthere.oz> wrote in message
> news:Kgvbd.238$GC6.6037@nnrp1.ozemail.com.au...
> >
> > "|-|erc" <spam@fodder.abc> wrote in message
> > news:_Fpbd.25104$5O5.6887@news-server.bigpond.net.au...
> > > From: Barry Bright
> > > Comment: You Aussies should have started culling your
> "liberal" freaks
> > > after they told you to turn your guns in. You deserve
> what
> > > your cowardice is earning you.
> > >
> > >
> > > From: Dieter Kock
> > > Comment: The restriction of firearms licenses now
> requiring the use on a
> > > property in excess of 40 acres limits people on their
> own
> > > smaller properties to safeguard their interests. In my
> case on 18 acres of
> > > mainly rock and native bush, wild pigs can not be
> > > controlled to protect my few fruit trees
> > >
> >> ....just an aside here. I have a customer who is a Rural Bushfire guy. The
>> national park is all around us here and there are so many feral pigs in
>> spots that the native vegetation, in constant danger as it is, had come
>> close to extinction as some of it doesn't grow anywhere else in the world.
>>
>> National Parks, concerned with the loss of some species of flora, decided a
>> cull of wild pigs would be nice so they shoved out baits and came back a few
>> weeks later to find just as many feral pigs, a few dead feral foxes and a
>> lot of dead native animals. Next, they hired helicopters and went on
>> pig-shooting joyrides at HUGE expense and shot about 20 or so over about 3
>> or 4 weeks. Not much of a change there. Giving up on this, they turned to
>> the only other group allowed to take vehicles into the park, the bush
>> fireys. They asked them if they would help in the cull. At first the fireys
>> refused because on a technical standpoint, they weren't licenced by National
>> Parks to take firearms into the park and had, for many years, been
>> complaining about the danger these wild pigs represented to THEMSELVES when
>> they had to venture into the bush as part of their job. Eg, they were
>> getting their own back. So as to appease the local bush fireys, the National
>> Parks OK's a rather "open ended" arrangement with the bush fire guys, most
>> of whom know the parks better than most rangers! In this licenced agreement,
>> the local fireys can take firearms into the park whenever they want for the
>> sole purpose of pig culling. A few weekends, a lot of beer and other alcohol
>> and a lot of headaches later, most of the wild pigs had disappeared from the
>> park. 6 months later, a farmer affected by wild pigs eating feed for his
>> animals commented to the National Parks guy about the sudden lack of pigs in
>> the park but lamented about the large number of foxes taking over as a
>> result.
>>
>> So far, no vegetation has been trampled upon by the foxes so they are safe.
>> Word has it that an occasional wild pig will make it's way back to the old
>> ground but the majority of them moved south out of harm's way and haven't
>> come back. The flora is safe. The fauna are in danger. Around here we are
>> just waiting for some local animal to be put on the endangered species list.
>> We wont have to know a firey to know when that happens. We'll just see lots
>> of foxtails on antennas the same way that when they were pig shooting, there
>> were suddenly lots of BBQs about the place. :)
>>
>>
>
> from a friend of a friend I guess - sounds like bull*** to
> me
>

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