Phil,

A member of NCPARC? Well, well, well. First of all, making disparaging comments about my views is why you and PARC don’t get it. And as a sitting member this kind of reaction is unprofessional. Why would privates want to work with you, NCPARC or National PARC with comments like that? Thanks for “showing” that I am correct in my post. So because I call out your “agenda” and have differing views I am divisive and destructive? You are just trying to slam differing opinions to advance your “agenda.” It sounds like a good idea to schedule meetings when it is most convenient for the stakeholders but do you dismiss their opinions when they come to the meetings as you did with my post?

I have talked with Andrew Wyatt and we don’t agree on everything. And if USARK decides to sell out the commercial and collector folks in the industry as other new groups have done then I wont support them either. I have told the entire USARK board this. We will see when the position statements are posted. You have every right to voice your opinion but it is helpful to offer up counter arguments. Andrew also understands that it is the academics and agency biologists that have been pushing the boa and python ban not the AR groups. It is pretty much FACT that many academics and agency biologists push an anti-private agenda.

You might not know this but I have been a past member of the NC Herp Society since 1988. I spent my latter high school years in Raleigh. I got my BS from NCSU. I know Braswell, Beane, Davenport, Cooper, Woodward, Herman and the whole crowd. I know the views of some of them folks. And some of them are “agenda” pushers. Others understand the rights of private stakeholders. I would suggest that you try to have an open mind to varying opinions.

If PARC really wants to have high private stakeholder participation they can. They need to abandon the AR anti private agenda. They need to understand that folks need access to new blood and localities. That we live in a capitalistic society where goods and services are bought and sold. This is reality. PARC needs to get rid of the elitist position statements. The academics and agency biologists that have pushed this anti-private agenda need to make amends. The sooner folks realize that far leaning leftist values are counterproductive the better. I have been a supporter of the conservation movement for 20 years but I have also come to see how extremist views are destructive. The middle is where we need to be. This involves trying to accommodate as many views as possible and tearing me down doesn’t accomplish this.

Welkerii
El Paso, TX

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