Randy and Michelle,



You are so very correct. The sad part is that many hobbyists side with academia and agency biologists that push skewed, biased and agenda based papers and opinions. It is generally estimated that anywhere from 30% to 75% of academia supports positions against this industry. Until those degreed professionals come out and speak up we don't know who is who. Many academics are really preservationists and not conservationists. They say they are for conservation but what they are really about is preservation. Many support the banning agenda. They testify at regulatory agency hearings as "experts" and scare the crap out of the regulatory biologists (who come from academia) and then those biologists pass banning regs and other arbitrary knee jerk reaction regs (example: turtles in Texas).



This is all part of the battle we are facing. This is why we ALL must come together under USARK and fight or kiss this industry good bye.



Welkerii

El Paso, TX

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