There’s safety in numbers
By KBarton10 on May 2, 2008 in current events, environment
Politics makes strange bedfellows and with declining participation in out-of-doors activities you can expect change. The Sierra Club is appealing to the sporting fraternity with it’s launch of the Sierrasportsmen.org website, with content tailored to both hunters and fishermen.
Environmentalists, according to Sierra Club spokeswoman Kristina Johnson, are embracing sportsmen as allies in the common causes of combating mercury-contaminated water, saving salmon from global warming and protecting elk range from oil drilling.
It’s quite understandable as so many of our issues are intertwined. Pollution and Global Warming cross every boundary imaginable, and with the folks in power turning a deaf ear - it’s up to the little guys to band together.
I say “Welcome” - and am pleased to have someone remind me that the tippet I just discarded is a bio-hazard. I get to remind them that they just spooked my fish, so we’re even.
Likely they’ll warm to us “earthy” types quick enough, and if invited to a cocktail party I’ll be on double-good behavior.
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San Mateo Joe | May 2, 2008 | Reply
“… and if invited to a cocktail party I’ll be on double-good behavior.”
I suspect their definition of good behavior is different from ours, which is why I’d like to be invited too. Mainly just to watch. And for the booze, of course.
Reed | May 2, 2008 | Reply
KB,
I’m not sure that you understand that a “cocktail party” does not consist of sexual congress.
Why not start with something closer to a brownliner’s heart (rather than other organs) and invite them for a fly-tying session avec beer. Doubtless they would be excited to handle the exotic furs and feathers - they have probably never seen a California Condor cape before.
kbarton10 | May 2, 2008 | Reply
you fellows cannot be taken anywhere… condor cape .. just dip me in tar now.
Reed | May 3, 2008 | Reply
But KB, TC assured me that when it came to fly-tying knowledge, material, and CITES, you had everything.
Sorry for the slip.
(You’ll still be sending me that dyed panda fur…right?)
KBarton10 | May 3, 2008 | Reply
Just as soon as Old “Ling Ling” gets cold…