Posted by
BLOGASSAULT on Thursday, September 25, 2008 1:28:40 PM
Global warming is real enough to Colorado's anglers and hunters that they have embraced an idea by an environmental group to hold workshops on how to deal with changing and dwindling habitat where they hunt and fish.
"Wildlife at a Crossroads: Conserving Colorado's Wildlife Heritage and Promoting a New Energy Future" is holding workshops today in Denver, Friday in Grand Junction and Oct. 25 in Alamosa.
Nothing like tying together a story about hunters and climate change.
David Dittloff, regional supervisor for the National Wildlife Federation, echoed that sentiment.
"There is a consensus among sportsmen and bird-watchers that climate is changing and something needs to be done to help fish and wildlife better adapt to a changing climate," he said. "And obviously there is a consensus that oil and gas activity is drastically increasing as well."
Obvious consensus that oil and gas activity is increasing as well? And piling solar panels and wind turbines over thousands of acres is going to help wildlife? These work shops are nothing more than an attempt to spread the 'green' news.
Then, in the same paper on the same day we have
this article. Here is the first sentence:
While Colorado hunters and environmentalists are uniting like never before in worrying about the habitat loss that can come with climate change, the signs so far are subtle.
They are uniting like crazy, I guess. Talking to a retired game warden, he is noticing the changes.
"It seems like 30 or 40 years ago, the situation was more gradual," Ellenberger said. "We either were going into a drought period and things gradually got drier and drier, or it went in the opposite direction.
"Now, it seems like it is all over the place — there are not patterns, just very erratic."
If everybody is so worried about the climate and colorado's wildlife, take not of this line in the article
He noted that elk are very adaptable, moving to lower elevations as houses go up in their traditional habitat.
And he points out that 40 years ago, Colorado's big-game manager predicted that the elk population of 50,000 likely wouldn't get any larger because the animals were being crowded out by development.
Now, there are about 280,000 elk in the state.
Not to mention since they limit hunting in colorado for elk that
chronic wasting disease is now running through the park.