Looks like Liberal Lisa  is having second thoughts on her recent loss to Joe Miller in Alaska’s republican primary. She has been talking with the Alaskan Libertarian Party at first they said no now it appears they might be having a change of heart, at least some in the party are. I guess she is willing to keep the Murkowski dynasty  going at what ever cost to Alaska.

She said that if this was “all about Lisa, certainly the easy thing for me to do would be to figure out what my next opportunity would be with my family and just settle in to a nice job.”

It is about Lisa at least in her mind,  she could care less about what is best for Alaska or this country.  Daddy Frank gave her his senate seat when he resigned from it after he was elected governor of Alaska.  Contrary to what she thinks she is not heir to the throne the peasants have spoke. Give it a rest Lisa you can try in again in six years or if you are impatient go for Marks seat in four years. Let not get Scott McAdams in by default. Alaska needs weaned off Uncle Teds pork dollars. We have the resources and the people. We have what it takes to be self-sufficient give Joe a shot at it.  What Alaska needs is our resources freed up for us to use not locked up for a few to look at from bus window. Alaska has one of the largest fisheries in the world, we have millions of acres of timber, oil and minerals. We can do it we don’t need the liberals damn welfare we can create our own jobs. Lisa do whats right for Alaska take a sabbatical come back in 6 years and try again don’t give the election to Scott.

Alaska Dispatch

AP

Looks like it is over,  Senator Murkowski conceded this evening. She didn’t get the votes from the southeast she had expected. This was probably as big a surprise as Miller taking the lead in the first place. This is the first hurdle now Miller has to face Scott McAdam’s in the general election this November. As Yogi Berra said “it ain’t over till it’s over” Lets hope the tea party carries over to a few more house and senate seats. You can read more about the race over on Camo Underground.

Speaking to reporters at her campaign headquarters in Anchorage, Murkowski said “based on where we are right now, I don’t see a scenario where the primary will turn out in my favor.“

Alaska politics are anything but predictable and last week Alaskans did it again. A obscure attorney from Fairbanks set our senior senator on her heels. Right now we are in the middle of a tight race between a moderate incumbent Lisa Murkowski and  tea party  pick Joe Miller. With less than 2000 vote between them and some 20,000 absentee ballots to be tallied it is going to be a squeaker. Miller leans more toward the constitution and doesn’t appear to be a senator who will grab every federal dollar he can get then brag about it come next election. While Murkowski is more willing to compromise with the opposition to fetch home the pork. It looks to be a couple of weeks before all the votes will be counted, but lets hope for a senator who will work for the interest of the people who put them in Washington. You can read more here at the article on Joe and Denali Park

Wolves have come to be the symbol of Gia the goddess of the earth and placed on their throne by the Walter Mitty’s of the animal right kingdom. You can’t read an outdoor news site without something about wolves. Last summer a pack killed at jogger in Alaska, they have destroyed the caribou herd on Unimak Island in Alaska, and in Northern Rockies something like 1600 to 1700 grey wolves have trashed the elk and deer herds. Yet the animal rights kingdom believes these cuddly little balls of fur need federal protection. Their numbers far exceed the original goals set by USFW. “The recovery goal for wolves in the northern Rocky Mountains was set at a minimum of 30 breeding pairs-successfully reproducing wolf packs and a minimum of 300 individual wolves for at least three consecutive years.” 1
Those numbers were reached in 2002 today there five times a many wolves as in 2002. So why does Earth Justice think the Northern Rockies wolf packs need the protection of the ESA? Because Wyoming was placed back on the endangered species list they feel all of the Northern Rocky manage as a single entity. At least that was their argument to Montana’s Judge Molloy last month. USFW believe grey wolves have recovered. “By every biological measure, the region’s gray wolf population is fully recovered,” an April U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service report said. 2
Five state involved believe the grey wolf populations have recovered. It is only a few members of the animal rights kingdom that feel the benevolent and companionate wolves need protection from the evil hunter.

Horse hockey, let me spell something out here wolves are predators they kill to live. They kill to teach their young to kill to kill so they will live. They are opportunistic killers they will take what ever they can whenever they feel the need. The idea they only take the sick and lame is absolute garbage. They will take a newborn calf and is mother before she has recovered from calving. Wolves have no sense of fair chase, humane kill is not in their vocabulary, and most importantly wolves do not feed people. Ungulates feed people so why aren’t they the ones being protected? By definition most hunters hunt for sport, with a few exceptions, they hunt for food. Contrary to popular belief hunters do not kill because the opportunity presented itself. The few people who do kill just to kill are not hunters they are thieves stealing from the rest of us. I hope when Judge Molloy makes his decision  on the Northern Rocky wolves he chooses to protect the interest of the consumptive users. The idea that wildlife is there for a minority to look at is bull. Wildlife is a resource a renewable resource that should be managed to meet human needs. If Earth Justice wants to watch wolves they should go to Ted Turners ranch where wolves are protected. Maybe they will be able to watch a pack take down an elk and eat it alive.

1 The Clark Fork Chronicle
Wednesday, July 14 2010
2 By Bailey Schreiber, Jackson Hole, Wyo., and The Associated Press
June 16, 2010

Fairbanks woman reels in 199.5-pound halibut not once, but twice
by Tim Mowry / tmowry@newsminer.com
Fairbanks Daily Newsminer

FAIRBANKS — This is a story about the big one that didn’t get away. Actually, it did get away for a little while, but it came back.Melody Dalbec, of Fairbanks, caught a 199.5-pound halibut in Valdez on Saturday not once, but twice. After it escaped the first time, she brought it to the side of the charter boat she was fishing on, the Dan Orion.
“Once we got a good look at him, the captain got a little excited,” Dalbec said of captain Dave Wiley. “He harpooned him, and the next thing
I know, the line broke, the harpoon came out and the fish was gone with my lure and my line.”
This was how Wiley described it: “It thrashed around so hard the dart ripped back out of the halibut and it ran back under the bottom of the boat and the line broke.”
Disappointed but not deterred, an exhausted Dalbec — it had taken her about 30 minutes to get the fish to the surface — grabbed another rod and continued fishing.
It wasn’t long before she and two other fishermen got their lines tangled and captain Dave Wiley told the three anglers, one of which was Dalbec’s husband, Randy, to reel their lines in so he could untangle the mess.
“It was obvious when we were reeling in that we had something,” Dalbec said. “I could feel my husband reeling, but there was no pressure on my line.”
When Dalbec and the other two fishermen finally got their cluster of lines and sinkers reeled in to the point where Wiley could untangle them, the captain noticed a fourth line.
“I started pulling the mess over the side, and there was another line in the snarl going over the side,” Wiley said. “I looked down and there’s that great big fish a few feet past the snarl.”
That much was obvious because the fish had guts falling out of the hole where Wiley had harpooned it the first time, as well as the lure still in its mouth.
“Sure as tootin’, it was my fish,” Dalbec said. “I looked at (Wiley) and he said, ‘Wow, I’ve never experienced anything like this before.’”
The fish was the biggest halibut caught during the 11-day Halibut Hullabaloo Tournament, earning Dalbec two tickets anywhere Alaska Airlines flies. The fish also was big enough to take the lead in the Valdez Halibut Derby, which would be worth $15,000 if her catch holds up until the end of the derby on Sept. 5.
Chances are slim that will happen, considering the smallest fish to win the derby since it started in 20 years ago is a 210-pounder back in 1992 and six of the past seven winners have been more than 300 pounds. But that doesn’t bother Dalbec.“I’m just tickled,” Dalbec said. “It’s a story I’ll tell my grandkids forever.”
The fish came up a half-pound shy of the 200-pound mark when it was weighed, and Dalbec said it probably would have been more than 200 pounds had they been able to get it on the boat the first time she caught it. “It had to be down there an hour bleeding out with entrails dragging behind it,” she said.
It was only Dalbec’s second time halibut fishing. The charter was a gift from friend and fellow dart team member Alison Koss, who won a raffle for a two-person charter last winter.
“It was either a bear gun or a halibut charter,” Dalbec said of Koss’ prize. “She won the raffle and took me as a friend.”Dalbec’s husband, Randy, and friend Case Sanders, another dart team member, joined them.“We got the trip on luck, and we got the fish on luck,” said Dalbec, a 41-year-old special education secretary at North Pole Elementary School. “It was a wonderful trip.”
In addition to catching her big halibut twice, Dalbec also reeled in a two-for-one special when she caught a rock fish that was in the mouth of a ling cod. While she could have kept the rock fish, the ling cod wouldn’t let go of the smaller fish so she tossed them both back.“He wanted it more than me,” Dalbec said of the ling cod.

http://newsminer.com/view/full_story/8031378/article-Fairbanks-woman-reels-in-199-5-pound-halibut-not-once–but-twice?

Get ready it won’t be long before Chuck and his co-horts will be out to set up a data base and instant check on everyone’s antler collection.

Man allegedly stabs another with antlers

Anchorage Daily News

Published: July 1st, 2010 11:08 PM
Last Modified: July 1st, 2010 11:09 PM

An Anchorage man is accused of stabbing his roommate with deer antlers that he pulled off the wall in the heat of an argument. Jesse Harris, 27, was charged with domestic violence felony assault.
Police say that just after 3 p.m. Thursday they got calls from neighbors about the disturbance in the 2400 block of Douglas Drive in Turnagain. A man was calling for help, a neighbor told police.
When police arrived, they found the victim suffering from stab wounds to his back and ankle. The victim was not seriously hurt.
Police say the men were arguing about the ownership of a vehicle.

This had me laughing my you know what off makes me want to go out and buy a dozer.

Fairbanks man accused of threatening Census worker with bulldozer
by Chris Freiberg / cfreiberg@newsminer.com
FAIRBANKS — A Fairbanks man has been accused of threatening a U.S. Census worker with a bulldozer.

On Wednesday, the Fairbanks District Attorney’s office filed one count of fourth-degree assault, a misdemeanor, against 50-year-old Carey William Bliss.

The Census worker, only identified by his initials in charging documents, went to Bliss’ Tall Spruce Road home June 2 looking for information from Bliss.

Bliss reportedly was uncooperative and grabbed Census forms from the worker, according to a criminal complaint filed in court.

Bliss then said, “I know how to get you off my property,” went to a bulldozer in his yard and started it, court documents allege.

The worker then got in his car and backed out of Bliss’ driveway as Bliss followed him in the bulldozer, stopping at the end of the driveway.

Ruben Del Valle, a spokesman for the Census Bureau in Alaska, said that while there have been reports of violence toward Census workers in other parts of the country, it was the first such incident he had heard about in Alaska, home to Noorvik, the first U.S. city to be counted in this year’s Census.

Census workers receive training on how to deal with such situations, which they then report to supervisors, he said.

While Bliss marked his property with “No trespassing” signs, according to charging documents, Del Valle said courts repeatedly have found that Census workers are not violating any laws if they are only going to a door seeking information.

Bliss has no prior criminal record and was not arrested in connection in the case. Court records do not list a lawyer for him or any upcoming court dates.

Read more: Fairbanks Daily News-Miner – Fairbanks man accused of threatening Census worker with bulldozer

This one would make Bill & Jimmy proud. Like they don’t already have enough,  the federal land managers can’t manage what they have. Their idea of resource management is lock it from the public but make them, the public,  pay the feds to be the  guardian so they can  protect the land from us. I wonder what the reaction would be if a few million acres of New York or Massachusetts was locked up. I rate the  1906 Antiquities Act about the same as the ESA they both accomplish absolutely nothing  but a way to control more land.

House Committee Wants to See Full “Monument Memo”

6/23/10

A key U.S. House Committee that oversees natural resource issues voted for a resolution calling for the disclosure of all pages from an Obama Administration memo that examined the setting aside of millions of acres of federal lands as new “National Monuments.” Parts of the memo were circulated earlier in the year and raised concerns among many sportsmen groups that hunting, currently allowed on these areas, could be prohibited on any lands receiving the designations.

On June 16, the U.S. House Natural Resources Committee passed House Resolution 1406, sponsored by Representative Doc Hastings (WA), the ranking Republican on the committee. The resolution calls on the Secretary of the Interior to release all documents related to the memo in question within 14 days of the legislation’s passage.

The U.S. Sportsmen’s Alliance (USSA) previously reported on this memo in March.  The memo identifies approximately 13 million acres in nine western states for “National Monument” designation under the 1906 Antiquities Act.  The Act allows the President to make these designations without Congressional approval or local input.

A Monument designation does not automatically limit hunting or other uses.  However, experience has shown that this designation can have a negative impact on access and conservation efforts.  For example, President Carter created millions of acres of National Park Service Monuments in Alaska which immediately closed the areas to sport hunting.  It took a subsequent act of Congress to undo many of these hunting closures.

The memo caused a firestorm of controversy, leading numerous Representatives to seek additional documents from the Obama Administration despite repeated statements from Secretary of Interior Ken Salazar that the piece was only intended for planning purposes and that a public process would take place before any designations.

Though the resolution cleared a committee, it remains unclear if the full House will take the issue up for vote.

The USSA continues to maintain that any change in public land use should only occur after open discussion with stakeholders allowing them to voice their concerns.

Here is my original source: http://www.ussportsmen.org/Page.aspx?pid=2470&frcrld=1

We live in an area with a large population of both brown bears and black bears but this week truly has been Bear Country out here. Things started last Monday; one of our neighbors who was at his vacation cabin on the lake went for an early morning workout in his kayak. While paddling around the lake he heard something crashing through the woods. He didn’t have to wait long before a cow moose and her calf of the year came barreling out of the trees and hit the water. Before they swim half way across the lake here comes a newly emancipated brown bear hot on the trail. John sat in his kayak without a camera or camcorder and watched a once in a lifetime scene. The cow swimming across the lake, her calf in tow, while the brown bear less than a minute behind. As John watched the cow made it across and hit the woods, not even waiting for her calf that was just a few seconds behind her. The bear was gaining fast when the calf made it to the shore and high tailed it to its mom. The last John saw of anything the bear had got across and was headed to where the two moose had gone into trees. John waited around but didn’t hear if the bear got his breakfast or not. It was a young bear so the calf had chance even if it was a slim one.

About one o’clock Tuesday morning our lab, Bear cut loose barking, he barks at everything that moves so I didn’t think much about it. I needed to go out anyway so I did my thing as I headed to the back door something up the hill around our caches went crashing. I looked up just in time to see a medium sized brown bear dragging a box of bait I had been using for black bear at one of my bait stations into the weeds. I walked back to the house and got my rifle by the time I got to where I could get a clean shot the bear saw me and headed south. I manage to put a round in the weeds where he went in I was hoping that would keep him going. It didn’t our lab played tag with him for a couple of hours before things got quit so we could get back to sleep. That morning I went out to see what all he trashed I was lucky he had only dumped one plastic tote of bait. Between what I could see of the bear earlier that morning and some of his tracks I of his I found where he came through the garden I figured he was a fairly small bear, maybe 7 – 71/2 foot range. We’re hoping it was the same bear John watched from his kayak the morning before. I it was the calf probably survived if it isn’t that means we probably has two young dumb bears. I decided to spend the night up in one of our caches in case he came back, he did, but I had also left our dog out and Bear kept the bear back in the brush. Last night was the first night he hasn’t stopped by to aggravate the dog hopefully he has given up and is looking somewhere else for easier pickin’.

I don’t know how many if any of you are trappers but this is what happens to those who are conned into compromising with those who want to destroy their way of life. In Canada it is called the Agreement on International Humane Trapping Standards Association or (AIHTS). Here in the US it is pawned of as Best Management Practice, garbage by any other name is still garbage. The whole thing was started by animal rights nut cases going through the  EU with the “standards” to be set by the International Standards Organization. The idea was to standardize traps to the EU’s and ISO cookie cutter idea of “humane”.  A  move that would cost the average trapper more than his line produce.These are people who have never set a trap in their life and want to tell someone who makes a living doing it how they think it should be done. Any country that didn’t comply would be banned from selling furs in all EU countries.  Millions of dollars have been and are being pumped into all the state fish & game  agency’s as well as those in the Canadian Province’s. Most of the US and Canadian F&G’s were more than willing to belly up to the trough more jobs for them, more money for them.  Why should they care about cost to trappers?    There is a paper put out by the Eurogroup for Animal Welfare titled Trapped by Bad Science this is a must read for everyone who traps. Or for that matter anyone who wants to know the animal rights crowds real agenda.  The paper shows what they are really after and it has little to do with humane trap standards. Their agenda is to put trappers out of business by setting standards that would require all North American trappers to  completely replace their traps with new ones that meet the ISO cookie cutter specifications. These are people who have never set a trap in their life yet  feel qualified to tell someone who makes a living trapping  how it want it done.  As if that is not enough they use the EU to bully country’s that won’t comply by controlling a large part of the fur ie;  banning sales to  EU countries  from buying from non-compliant countries.  Millions of dollars were and are being pumped into US state fish & wildlife  agency’s as well as their counter parts in Canada. Most of the US and Canadian F&W’s  agencies are more than willing to belly up to the trough, more jobs, more money.  Why should they care about cost to trappers, after they trap by choice they could always get another job.

This petition was put out by some Canadian trappers, this is just the beginning. It is only a matter of time before more money rolls in to help the trapper finance the purchase of new compliant traps. I have no doubt this will happen, but at what cost? Back to the days of the  of Hudson Bay Co. or J. J. Astor and the company trappers who works all season to pay off last seasons grub stake? No thanks that’s not the life for me.

To: Ontario Government

To: Ontario Government

To: Government of Ontario

To: The Government of Ontario

And to: The Minister of Natural Resources

And to: The Minister of Transportation

And to: The Ontario Fur Managers Federation

WHEREAS the harvesting of wild fur is part of Canada’s heritage dating back to the beginning of Canada;

AND WHEREAS the fur industry market has been at an all time low;

AND WHEREAS Costs to trappers to upgrade their traps in order to meet the standards put in place by the Agreement on International Humane Trapping Standards Association (AIHTS), Purchase, maintain, license and insure snow mobiles and off road vehicles is at an all time high

AND WHEREAS Many trappers depend on the fur industry as their primary source of income;

AND WHERE AS Trappers are the unofficial guardians of the crown regarding their respective registered trap lines, who’s efforts assist with keeping our forests clean, providing members of the public with accessible trails and access to hunting and fishing locations;

AND WHEREAS many Traplines are littered with public access Snowmobile and ATV trails provided by such organizations as the Ontario Federation of Snow Mobile Clubs and various ATV clubs. Trails for which trappers often provide maintenance at no cost recovery;

NOW THEREFORE the undersigned hereby request that the recipients of this petition establish the necessary changes to the laws of Ontario and or Policies in place with the Ontario Fur Managers Federation to allow for the following benefits to trappers in Ontario:

1. A snow mobile, ATV or other off road vehicle be deemed to be an implement of husbandry while it is in use for trapping related purpose by a licensed trapper on his or her registered trap line;

2. As such any snow mobile, ATV or other off road vehicle used by the licensed trapper for trapping related purposes on his or her registered trap line be exempt from any annual registration renewal;

3. That the Ontario Fur Managers Federation amend the membership liability insurance policy to include Public Liability and Property damage for any and all snow mobiles, ATV’s or other off road vehicles used for trapping related purpose, by a licensed trapper on his or her registered trap line;

Sincerely,

The Undersigned

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