[AT] Real farmers problems - a discussion of land userelatedtofarming - was fuel problems get expensive-perspectives andreactions

[charlie hill]

Yep that's pretty much the case.   There was an article on a local TV 
station this week.  A guy in Washington NC who builds boat docks and sea 
walls for a living left his pile driving barge at a job site for several 
weeks until he needed it somewhere else.  When he went to get it there was 
an Osprey nest built on top of the boom.   He moved the barge a few miles up 
the river where some do-gooders saw the nest and turned him in.  The 
wildlife folks showed up to examine the nest.  No birds were in it and the 
guy claims there were no birds in it when he moved it.
Wildlife is doing an investigation to find out if he moved the barge and 
disturbed the nesting of "endangered" Ospreys.  Endangered my rear end. 
There is a nest of them on a channel marker in front of my house right now. 
They have nested there every year for the last 15 or 20 years I know.    My 
neighbor put his little Yorkie out a couple of months ago about 5 am and the 
dog never came back.  The little fellow was such a scared little dog that he 
wouldn't even come over next door to my house and yapped at the top of his 
lungs for every breath when he was outside.
I'll take bets that his collar is in that Osprey nest right now along with 
part of his hide and a few bones.

 I believe in stewardship of wild life and wild places but when a man can't 
work because a so called endangered species is sitting on his equipment it's 
getting out of hand.  As for the Yorkie, that's just natures way,  too bad 
for the dog but please don't try to tell me Ospreys are endangered.  (or 
brown Pelicans either).  Deer?  at this point there should probably be a 
bounty on them in some places.

Charlie

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From: "Al Jones" <farmallsupera at earthlink.net>
Sent: Friday, July 02, 2010 1:16 PM
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Subject: Re: [AT] Real farmers problems - a discussion of land 
userelatedtofarming - was fuel problems get expensive-perspectivesandreactions> There is a program where they want you to plant strips along the edge for
> quail.  They pay the land owner a little bit for it.
>
> The problem with wildlife management & legislation in NC, and I expect in
> most other states, is that it is centered around the best interests of the
> wildlife and the best interests of the hunter.  All other citizens rights
> are secondary.
>
> Al
>
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> From: "charlie hill" <charliehill at embarqmail.com>
> Sent: Friday, July 02, 2010 7:22 AM
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> Subject: Re: [AT] Real farmers problems - a discussion of land use
> relatedtofarming - was fuel problems get 
> expensive -perspectivesandreactions> John,  I've known some farmers around 
> here to plant a strip of pasture
> along
>> the wood line for the deer to graze on, hoping it would keep them out of
>> the
>> field.
>>
>> Charlie
>>
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>> From: "john hall" <jtchall at nc.rr.com>
>> Sent: Thursday, July 01, 2010 10:20 PM
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>> Subject: Re: [AT] Real farmers problems - a discussion of land use
>> relatedto
>> farming - was fuel problems get expensive -perspectives and reactions
>>
>>> We have a different problem here due to increased housing developments.
>>> We
>>> have an overpopulated deer population that is making it almost 
>>> impossible
>>> to
>>> grow anything, be it farm or merely garden. I had 24 deer on about 3
>>> acres
>>> of newly emerged soybeans last night. Plus the other 8 I saw in other
>>> fields. You just can't shoot that many of the darn things. They have 
>>> even
>>> gotten so bad we can only grow bearded wheat.
>>>
>>> John Hall
>>>
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