Research from BYU wildlife sciences professors finds that when hunting season starts, elk in Utah move off of public lands — where they can be hunted — and onto private lands — where they cannot be hunted. And then, when hunting season is over, they shift right back to public lands.
It's just that, I don't want to conserve how things are right now -- with farmers, landowners, and resource extraction being at play while conservationists, water and land defenders, scramble to save whatever they can. I want it all to be given back to people, especially and most importantly Indigenous tribes, who will naturalize it. But until then, we have to resort to stop-gap measures which annoy me greatly, because they ultimately end with things staying the same instead of giving the land back.
"Indigenous tribes, who will naturalize it." Try not do do this. Native peoples aren't some mystic font of nature magic. They are people like everyone else.
It's just that, I don't want to conserve how things are right now -- with farmers, landowners, and resource extraction being at play while conservationists, water and land defenders, scramble to save whatever they can. I want it all to be given back to people, especially and most importantly Indigenous tribes, who will naturalize it. But until then, we have to resort to stop-gap measures which annoy me greatly, because they ultimately end with things staying the same instead of giving the land back.
"Indigenous tribes, who will naturalize it." Try not do do this. Native peoples aren't some mystic font of nature magic. They are people like everyone else.