A Little Closer To Heaven

Hopefully all of my faithful readers will forgive me for taking a week off from posting. My life was getting really crazy for a while and I needed a little time to sit back and collect my thoughts. Doing so has helped me greatly. I have a lot of new things to talk about and a fresh excitement about posting again.

That being said, I learned from the Great Outsmores that today is environmental action blog day (I think…). Here’s my environmental rant. I was watching the news the other day and apparently the Arkansas Conservation department is trying to decide what to do about the wild elk in Arkansas. Apparently, these guys have been giving a lot of property owners fits by destroying fences and eating crops. I understand their frustration. I mean I’d be upset if I was losing money too. However, their proposed solutions are even more irritating.

One group is trying to get a bill passed that would make it okay to shoot problem elk. Here’s the problem with that. It’s not one elk…they travel in enormous herds. You can’t kill all of them. Another group is asking that we fence an area off and make an elk zoo. Are you kidding me? People have payed taxes so that elk could be repopulated here in Arkansas so we can have them in the wild…not so we can go to a zoo. Besides, the revenue brought in to Arkansas by tourists and others who want to see the wild elk every year far outweighs the cost of a farm land. My proposal…give the farmers a tax break and possibly help them monetarily for the damages caused by elk.

Here’s what you can do. If you are in Arkansas, write your local congressman and tell them how much you appreciate the elk herd. Let them know that you don’t want to see them killed or put in a zoo. I’m not too worried about the fate of the elk because most people in Arkansas are behind the elk and are excited about their presence. They’re not going to allow anything to happen to them. There’s an uproar every time one is illegaly poached. I was just so upset about the proposed elk control that I could have thrown my tv.

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