7943

• UCREFRP Catalog Number: 7943
• Author: Getches, D. H.
• Title: As Wildlife Goes, So Goes The West, ‎(for the annual meeting of The Western Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies)‎.
• USFW Year: 1985.
• USFW - Doc Type: July 17, 1985.
• Copyright Material: NO

~ r,REAT IPorN OF THE WEST IS THAT, \~ILE P~OPLF ^R~ ATTRACTED

TO OUR SlATES MID PROVINCES BY THE ~JONDERFUL NATURAL RESOURCES, THEY
ALL PARTICIPATE IN ABUSING THEM. I AM NOT SINGLlNr, nUT THE MINcR
WHOSE COt~PANY IS' CARELESS ABOUT LETTING ITS CYANIDE \<lASTE O\fRFLCl'!

INTO A STR~Af" AND ~JHn THEN CURSES THE INADEQUACY OF FISHING
OPPORTUN IT IE S . NOR SHOUL D WE BE TOO QU I CK TO BLAME THE HOUS I NG
OF. \ELOPER \~HOS:: ENTREPRENEURSHIP GOBBLES UP HABITAT FOR RIRD~ ANT)
ANIMALS NID ~oJHO THEN WONDERS WHY PUBLIC LANDS APE SO O\ERCROVJDED ON
OPENING nw OF Dt:EP SEASON. HE ARE ALL RESPONSIBLE.

o PLANTING THIRSTY BLUEGRASS L^I-'INS IN ARID DENVER

SUBURBS ~"f:^NS THAT THE SUBURBANITE WILL FIND A FLOAT

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TRIP ON THE COLORADO RI \fR LESS EXCITING, BECAUSE

DA~lS .AND T)J \ERS IONS f:AST OF THE R.OCK I;:S .t\RE NEED~D TO

IRRIGATE HIS LM"N.

o STOCKMEN WHO POISON RODENTS SHOULD NOT WOf\IDEP WHY

HUNGRIER PREDATORS FIND THEIR SHEEP AND CATTLE ~'YJPE

ATTRACTI \1::.

o C0f'1l"UTERS ~<1HOSf: EXHAUST TAl NTS THE A I R 4A \E LI TILE

STANDING TO COMPLAIN THAT THEIR WEEKEND BIRD ~IATCHING

HAS BEEN CURTAILED AS FORESTS HLIGHTED BY ACID RAIN.

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