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<blockquote data-quote="TheLBLman" data-source="post: 5069775" data-attributes="member: 1409"><p>LBL's management has certainly experienced some recent "pitfalls", but let me tell you something major you and most TN sportsmen have missed:</p><p></p><p>When it comes to hunting, and land management issues favorable to hunting, LBL has experienced more public opposition than support.</p><p></p><p>LBL is a national recreation area, first & foremost.</p><p>To what extent we may call it a wildlife management area, that may be more about non-hunted than hunted species.</p><p></p><p>The general public seems to "support" managing more to benefit pileated woodpeckers, owls, eagles & other raptors, more so than anything we might want to hunt.</p><p></p><p>Hunting is merely one of many recreational activities allowed.</p><p>That's it.</p><p></p><p>The sad reality is that most of the "public" does not hunt, and wants the hunting to be more limited on this area, so that it doesn't interfere much at all with other activities the general public deems more valuable than recreational hunting.</p><p></p><p>Never mind that hunting may interfere very little with other activities in reality. It's more about perception from the mindset of non-hunters.</p><p></p><p>Albeit somewhat by hook & by crook, the tree-hugging environmental groups seem to have more to do with the overall management of LBL than any hunting or true conservation groups. Add the influence of other organized "recreational" groups (who do not hunt), and our hunting, and land management more beneficial to hunted species, our hunting goes to the back of the bus.</p><p></p><p>Worse, for us hunters, realistically you should expect more hunting to take the back seat on many WMA's as well, never mind they were originally set up mainly for the benefit of hunting, although that may have been our false assumption.</p><p></p><p>IMO, the only realistic way of turning this around over time, is to get more women & children into hunting. We hunters are otherwise more a dying breed, and being steadily out-numbered by members of the "public" who place more value on other forms of recreation.</p><p></p><p>At the present time, don't see much risk of LBL becoming privatized, or sold off.</p><p></p><p>If you want to hate something, hate politics, career politicians, federal agencies headed by non-hunters, and maybe some left-wing environmental groups which oppose hunting. They may collectively have more to do with LBL's management than LBL's designated "managers",</p><p>whose hands are largely tied by these powers that be.</p><p></p><p>Last but not least, sometimes <u>some</u> hunters are their own worst enemies, as I believe it was some "hunters" who released the pigs at LBL. Those pigs didn't get there on their own, and no one, I mean no one, wants them there, except for hunters who like to hunt pigs more than deer and turkey. So now, LBL's "management" is having to spend some of its limited resources in combating, and attempting to eliminate the feral pigs, which are greatly compromising the habitat for deer & turkey.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TheLBLman, post: 5069775, member: 1409"] LBL's management has certainly experienced some recent "pitfalls", but let me tell you something major you and most TN sportsmen have missed: When it comes to hunting, and land management issues favorable to hunting, LBL has experienced more public opposition than support. LBL is a national recreation area, first & foremost. To what extent we may call it a wildlife management area, that may be more about non-hunted than hunted species. The general public seems to "support" managing more to benefit pileated woodpeckers, owls, eagles & other raptors, more so than anything we might want to hunt. Hunting is merely one of many recreational activities allowed. That's it. The sad reality is that most of the "public" does not hunt, and wants the hunting to be more limited on this area, so that it doesn't interfere much at all with other activities the general public deems more valuable than recreational hunting. Never mind that hunting may interfere very little with other activities in reality. It's more about perception from the mindset of non-hunters. Albeit somewhat by hook & by crook, the tree-hugging environmental groups seem to have more to do with the overall management of LBL than any hunting or true conservation groups. Add the influence of other organized "recreational" groups (who do not hunt), and our hunting, and land management more beneficial to hunted species, our hunting goes to the back of the bus. Worse, for us hunters, realistically you should expect more hunting to take the back seat on many WMA's as well, never mind they were originally set up mainly for the benefit of hunting, although that may have been our false assumption. IMO, the only realistic way of turning this around over time, is to get more women & children into hunting. We hunters are otherwise more a dying breed, and being steadily out-numbered by members of the "public" who place more value on other forms of recreation. At the present time, don't see much risk of LBL becoming privatized, or sold off. If you want to hate something, hate politics, career politicians, federal agencies headed by non-hunters, and maybe some left-wing environmental groups which oppose hunting. They may collectively have more to do with LBL's management than LBL's designated "managers", whose hands are largely tied by these powers that be. Last but not least, sometimes [U]some[/U] hunters are their own worst enemies, as I believe it was some "hunters" who released the pigs at LBL. Those pigs didn't get there on their own, and no one, I mean no one, wants them there, except for hunters who like to hunt pigs more than deer and turkey. So now, LBL's "management" is having to spend some of its limited resources in combating, and attempting to eliminate the feral pigs, which are greatly compromising the habitat for deer & turkey. [/QUOTE]
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