Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Buffalo torture 2010: Firsthand witness account of...":
Great article, where can I find the video footage?
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Thursday, May 13, 2010
[Jim's Eclectic World] New comment on Buffalo torture 2010: Firsthand witness account of....
Jim Macdonald has left a new comment on your post "Buffalo torture 2010: Firsthand witness account of...":
Do you know how many actual cattle ranchers there are in the entire area?
Want to venture a guess?
1, and he's a hobby rancher with cows there only part of the year.
His name is Pat Povah; his family used to run the Hamilton Stores general stores in the park; his brother Terry and his mother Ellie used to be my boss!
But, regardless of that fact, that's a false choice. So much justification of bison management practices sets up one draconian solution against one that's even worse - then people justify choosing one instead of seeing that the choice is a false one. (the Royal Teton Ranch deal in the north was one; the moving of quarantined buffalo to the Turner ranch was another).
But, it's also clear that my account failed to reach you because one of the points of it was to show how abysmally awful the practice of hazing is ... that set up as an alternative to anything - no matter how awful - this isn't an alternative.
An impossible task I set up for myself ... because you really have to run some of that gauntlet to understand it, and you can try to convey it with words ... but if you aren't pre-disposed to feel what the words on a page mean, they will fall flat like every other maddening abstraction (like your false choice).
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Do you know how many actual cattle ranchers there are in the entire area?
Want to venture a guess?
1, and he's a hobby rancher with cows there only part of the year.
His name is Pat Povah; his family used to run the Hamilton Stores general stores in the park; his brother Terry and his mother Ellie used to be my boss!
But, regardless of that fact, that's a false choice. So much justification of bison management practices sets up one draconian solution against one that's even worse - then people justify choosing one instead of seeing that the choice is a false one. (the Royal Teton Ranch deal in the north was one; the moving of quarantined buffalo to the Turner ranch was another).
But, it's also clear that my account failed to reach you because one of the points of it was to show how abysmally awful the practice of hazing is ... that set up as an alternative to anything - no matter how awful - this isn't an alternative.
An impossible task I set up for myself ... because you really have to run some of that gauntlet to understand it, and you can try to convey it with words ... but if you aren't pre-disposed to feel what the words on a page mean, they will fall flat like every other maddening abstraction (like your false choice).
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It's not great, but what is the alternative? Let them be shot by ranchers? I'm just glad this is all they're doing.
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It's not great, but what is the alternative? Let them be shot by ranchers? I'm just glad this is all they're doing.
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Wednesday, May 12, 2010
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and as I said, before, thank you , Jim, now rest body, mind , and soul, and DO NOT LOSE HEART! Dad
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and as I said, before, thank you , Jim, now rest body, mind , and soul, and DO NOT LOSE HEART! Dad
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I am traveling from missiouri to yellowstone for the summer and I would really like to know how conditions are going to be. I don't even know the size of the dorm and what I should and shouldn't bring.
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I am traveling from missiouri to yellowstone for the summer and I would really like to know how conditions are going to be. I don't even know the size of the dorm and what I should and shouldn't bring.
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Wednesday, March 31, 2010
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This is a great summation of Chase's book. Playing God has stuck with me for a long time. I also enjoyed his .
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This is a great summation of Chase's book. Playing God has stuck with me for a long time. I also enjoyed his .
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Wednesday, January 27, 2010
[Jim's Eclectic World] New comment on A critique of national parks as "America's best id....
Dave has left a new comment on your post "A critique of national parks as "America's best id...":
Thanks for recommending your article to me. And yes you were correct in saying that I do not agree with it 100 percent. I found your perspective to be unique. For those who have not seen the series or are simply on the fence about park preservation as a whole, it offers a view that is not completely bashing to the movement, but attempts to reveal the truth about the history behind the parks. Very interesting.
Posted by Dave to Jim's Eclectic World at 1/27/10 7:25 PM
Thanks for recommending your article to me. And yes you were correct in saying that I do not agree with it 100 percent. I found your perspective to be unique. For those who have not seen the series or are simply on the fence about park preservation as a whole, it offers a view that is not completely bashing to the movement, but attempts to reveal the truth about the history behind the parks. Very interesting.
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