Wayne Elkin's Posts - iPeace.us2024-03-29T13:52:16ZWayne Elkinhttps://ipeace.us/profile/WayneElkinhttps://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/63676763?profile=RESIZE_48X48&width=48&height=48&crop=1%3A1https://ipeace.us/profiles/blog/feed?user=2kc3am7bi2fpj&xn_auth=noHuntingtag:ipeace.us,2009-01-24:2217368:BlogPost:10770942009-01-24T18:30:00.000ZWayne Elkinhttps://ipeace.us/profile/WayneElkin
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At 9:31pm on January 24, 2009, Wayne Elkin said…Where I live every one hates the idea of killing beautiful deer. There are deer every where. On the surface this is great and while we do have a few natural preditors around like mountain lions and coyotes they can't control the deer population. Thousands die of starvation in our area. I believe hunting by bow might be a more human approach. What do you think Erika? At age fifty seven I'm about as young…
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At 9:31pm on January 24, 2009, Wayne Elkin said…Where I live every one hates the idea of killing beautiful deer. There are deer every where. On the surface this is great and while we do have a few natural preditors around like mountain lions and coyotes they can't control the deer population. Thousands die of starvation in our area. I believe hunting by bow might be a more human approach. What do you think Erika? At age fifty seven I'm about as young as "a real hippy could be" if was sixteen during the summer of love. I think you might get a feel of what the hippy thing was by visiting htpp://RanchoBozo.com <br/><br/><br/>
Hi Wayne, was just browsing through the folks here at iPeace and read your blog on the deer problem. Animal lovers have no idea how much of a problem the deer population- or any animal for that matter - if left unchecked, will continue to grow. We would begin to see real problems in the form of out-of-control viruses that could jump species, as happens. For California, with all the homeless people, I'm willing to bet a few wouldn't mind having some deer meat in their freezers or at the soup kitchens. From the other side of the nation. Peace! :)<br/><br/>At 2:34am on January 25, 2009, Elizabeth Allen said… Wayne,
A similar thing happened in NJ where I grew up. Hunting was banned due to crashed population of deer and overpopulation of people, however as people in their neighborhoods (which were all farms or woods when I was growing up) wanted a woodsy feel, or nice gardens-at least more plant growth that the bulldozed flat yard they started with) the deer all went nuts-lots of good food tell deer brains to make more deer-with consequence of overpopulation of deer in a few years, and no natural predators left in jersey.<br />
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I'm not sure if hunting is still banned, but I'd rather see a deer get eaten than starve to death. Starved, sick deer are also more likely to support a healthy (at least the ticks think so) crop of ticks all capable of carrying bacteria (Borellia sp. I believe) that causes Lyme disease.<br />
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Even discounting the Lyme factor-starvation is not a pleasant way to die.<br />
I tend to think using a rifle would be more humane than a bow. A bow is a way of making hunting more challenging, and bringing the hunter closer to the prey so they can realize that hunter/prey are not so different, two sides of a coin? But many potential hunters-particularly suburban type hunters would not have much experience with a bow, and a decent humane killing shot would be less likely than with a hunting rifle.<br />
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If you are serious about hunting deer, take some bow classes, the more experience with a good teacher, the more likely the hunting experience will be better. It's a drag watching an animal get wounded and left to wander off and die. Friends here in AK used to find dead moose left behind by city hunters who didn't feel like packing an entire moose out. My friends rarely needed to go moose hunting, since the city hunters left them plenty. But it sort left me with a bad feeling toward hunters who would kill a gorgeous animal like a moose, take a quarter and leave the rest because they were too lazy to pack it out, or too lazy to track a wounded animal and put it out of pain.<br />
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I know this may seem sort of brutal to some in this group, but after living in the bush for a number of years, I don't have the bad feeling towards hunting I used to. It's not that the moose are there for me to eat, but, I guess, it's more real when live 50 or so miles from the nearest town or road, you eat what you find<br />
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Slight change of topic, but I've come to accept the death of a pet as ok if I view it as the cat helped feed an owl's family or a den of fox cubs. the idea of my cat getting hit by a car and tossed off the road is awful, I worry about the pain they may have gone through, the fear they felt-that to me is so far worse than having my cat killed by an owl and in that way being a part of the natural world and it's cycles.<br />
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the point of this ramble was to tell you I think hunting is ok as long as you stay clear and attached (in the sense of being aware, paying attention, etc.) to what you are doing and why.<br />
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Hippies are forever,<br />
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Delete CommentI've done lots of things on the net but I've never had a blog BLOGtag:ipeace.us,2009-01-24:2217368:BlogPost:10531532009-01-24T16:30:00.000ZWayne Elkinhttps://ipeace.us/profile/WayneElkin
Hey Friends of RanchoBozo.com and ipeace.me<br />
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I taught in Bolinas School in a 7/8th grade class yesterday. I saw self motivated middle schools students using communication skills and math as a tools to solve real hands on problems. This is due to master teachers Don Jolley and Willow It was great working with their capable students. <br></br><br></br>Carol baked some delectable cake that tasted like the best cookie ever The hippy feel of Bolinas is inspiring and radiates an influence towards peace. I…
Hey Friends of RanchoBozo.com and ipeace.me<br />
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I taught in Bolinas School in a 7/8th grade class yesterday. I saw self motivated middle schools students using communication skills and math as a tools to solve real hands on problems. This is due to master teachers Don Jolley and Willow It was great working with their capable students. <br/><br/>Carol baked some delectable cake that tasted like the best cookie ever The hippy feel of Bolinas is inspiring and radiates an influence towards peace. I took this picture on my way home : a farm house in Bolinas, California.<p style="text-align: left;"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/35330187?profile=original" alt="" width="2560" height="1920"/></p>
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On Martin Luther King Day Genna, Kaz, and I participated in our own community service activity.<br />
We put on rubber gloves and picked up all the trash and recycled every thing we could find in<br />
Old Mill Park in our community Mill Valley, California.<br />
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students and staff attended an Inaugural Celebration that included breakfast and a presentation by the<br />
color guard of Balboa, HS. of San Francisco and a prayer circle by our Miwok native elders. Our celebration took place in a community center in Marin City. I posted digital photos on our Obama photobucket website. I've never before felt so connected to my President and the direction we must go.<br />
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Sincerely Wayne Elkin, Proud American Citizen<br />
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