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<DIV>ummm, animal rights terrorist? the thinning of the herd is a
necessity for their own survival, and before you slam me, think about
this. Alot of the wilderness is gone, alot of their natural habitat is
dwindling down due to human overpopulation. True, the moose numbers in the
wild is low - why? it is because of the hunters thinning the herd. IF
hunters were not allowed to hunt moose, the overpopulation of starving moose
would not survive. The same go for the deer, the thinning of the herd is a
necessity for the species survival. Would you rather see an over abundance
of deer and moose, starving, to weak to forage for food, to come into towns and
cities in search of a human hand out? or see a healthy herd living in the
wild?</DIV>
<DIV>The "drama" of Thoreau's words in 1853 does not apply to today's
life style.</DIV>
<DIV>Right? Doc? From one of your accused, "Drama Queens".</DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [FEL-L] Moose-hunting Sarah
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<DIV class="small color-666">October 1, 2008<BR></DIV>
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<H1 class=heading>Moose-hunting Sarah Palin style</H1>
<P>Palin's taste for moose-hunting is a central plank of her political
personality. It is almost obligatory, when writing about the Alaska Governor
and Republican vice-presidential candidate, to refer to her as the
“gun-toting, moose-hunting mother-of-five”. Palin is the first candidate in
history who tracks, kills, guts, skins, cooks and then eats big game, and also
wears high heels, though not, surely, at the same time. </P>
<P>Palin's reputation as a moose-hunter is central to her appeal as a
frontierswoman, an appeal that has transformed the presidential race. If John
McCain gets to the White House he will owe it, in part, to a dead moose. A
photograph of Palin sitting in the bloodstained snow, gun in hand, alongside
the carcass of a large animal killed by her own fair hand, has been published
in virtually every newspaper in the world: it is an image that makes
Republicans, hunters and gun-owners very happy; it is an image that makes many
environmentalists, liberals, gun-control advocates and Democrats extremely
angry, and very nervous. </P>
<P>In the petrol station on the way back to Anchorage, there is a pickup and
trailer filled with hunters, and a huge, dead moose. The severed legs stick up
and the decapitated head has been arranged to look out over the back of the
trailer, its huge lips black and its eyes closed. The brake lights cast the
animal's long, dour face in a red glow as the truck moves off: it is a sight
at once eerie, impressive and revolting, the dignified creature I had seen a
few hours early reduced to a gory trophy. </P>
<P>Thoreau, who witnessed the killing and field-dressing of a moose in 1853,
was revolted. “Nature looked sternly upon me on account of the murder of the
moose,” he wrote. “A tragical business it was; to see that still warm and
palpitating body pierced with a knife... and the ghastly naked red carcass
appearing from within its seemly robe.” </P>
<P>It might seem bizarre that moose-hunting should suddenly loom large in the
US election, a symbol of pioneering independence to some and savage bloodlust
to others. But then, this harmless, majestic beast has always been exploited
by man, for better and for worse: for food, for clothing, for sport, and now
for presidential politics. </P>
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<P>There are an estimated 175,000 moose in Alaska, but in the most remote
areas they may be as sparse as one to every 30 square miles</P>
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<P>for much more on the story</P>
<P><A
href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article4855262.ece">http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article4855262.ece</A></P>
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