The Glow Of Tusks In The Headlights

15 Replies to “The Glow Of Tusks In The Headlights”

1. David Suzuki will be thrilled with the notion of elephants roaming Vancouver island.
   Can’t wait for him to come in off the CBC picket line to pimp the idea!

2. ROFL
   Nuts!
   The largest, most powerful, and influential tribe in the world is the Tribe of Idiots.

3. My father works at a refinery on the east side of Edmonton, maybe a mile or so from any residential areas. Last week they found a deer carcass at the far end of the property and, unsure of what had killed it, found a worker from Rocky Mountain House. He took one look & said “cougar.” Apparently river & creek valleys are the “highway of choice” for wildlife, and this one just happened to be passing through. Of course, as the carcass diminished in size, he was apparently hanging out for a while, but they haven’t seen him since the carcass was reduced to bones over the weekend…
   Needless to say, no one is keen to wander down to that end of the property these days.
   When I first read the article, I thought “hmmm, this might be cool” but then went back and re-read it. We already have problems with bears wandering outside national park boundaries and causing havoc. Buffaloes in Elk Island cause traffic jams by wandering DOWN the road instead of just across it.
   I can’t begin to wrap my mind around driving through Jasper or Banff and seeing an elephant in the ditch. (And an idiot tourist walking up to it with a camera.)

4. A tribe of lions in the Jane-Finch area might do more to eliminate the crime problem there than all of Miller’s blathering…

5. This is simply more proof that the the environmental “movement” has come apart at the seams, with its rotting remnants bearing the faces of crazed fools such as these. Let the lions loose in Central Park first, please.

6. I look forward to the day the a giraffe comes to graze on the trees out front. Right now I get the occasional deer on the lawn – but a giraffe – WOW; won’t that be a spectacle. I better start preparing – I wonder what sub-saharan trees can withstand a Calgary winter.

7. Oh gee! One group of dingbats want to “save” a species by thinking outside the box, then the next group will bemoan the fact that the new species is pushing out the native flora and fauna. Then with all the “trophies” roaming about, “sportsmen” will want to kill and mount (hmmm…)them. Most “person”made nature debacles started with what seemed like a good idea at the time.

8. I know those elephants will come to love the winters here because it’s a “dry” cold.

9. Posted at Voy (Bourque)
   “Josh sounds like he thinks wit his ass.
   Besides the unrestricted NATIVE HUNTING, just what North America needs is another source of Africanized bacteria and parasites to beat down naturally occuring flora and fauna.
   Be interesting to hear what David Schindler thinks about this scheme. But what do I know?
   Where do some of these so-called Cornell experts come from anyway? Outer space? :
   Thursday, Aug 18, 2005
   Prairies ideal for African animals: scientist
   (mytelus.com) – A prominent Cornell University ecologist says transplanting the large beasts of Africa and Asia to the Canada and U.S. Prairies could be the best chance of saving them from extinction.
   A team led by Josh Donlan writes in Nature magazine that “rewilding” large tracts of land in places like Alberta, Saskatchewan, Nebraska and Texas could help preserve populations of animals such as cheetahs, camels, elephants and lions.
   They say the animals could adapt to harsh winter conditions and the declining human populations on the Prairies make them an ideal setting.
   “I don’t think it’s a pipe dream at all,” says Richard Harington, a Canadian Museum of Nature expert on the lions, camels and mammoths of North America’s last Ice Age, who spoke with CanWest News Service. “Of course you have to have a good fence.”
   Good fence..sure”

10. I suppose some Ivy League type who sees the Great Plains as an impediment to his rounds of New York and San Fransisco would think nothing at all of loosing lions and elephants upon the people who feed him.

11. “declining human populations”? really? not in AB, where else?

12. “Lions and tigers and elephants, oh my”.
    I can’t believe nobody has thrown that in.

13. Wait til the first combine gets stuck in a bull elephant turd in a wheatfield. Then it’s gonna hit the fan…

14. I called this at least fifteen years ago when Europe was subsidizing its farmers and Canada had a cheap food policy and as a result drove the small farmers off the land. No one will feel sorry when the big ones are expropriated.I said at the time that someone from Canada had made an agreement with Europe to make a park in Western Canada so the Europeans could grow crops on their own land and have ours to eco-tourist.Two things came into effect on the same day.The last of the gun registration and the endangered species legislation.All the animals that are proposed to be introduced would automatically be on the ENDANGERED SPECIES LIST.Read the press release.

15. “megafauna”
    Band Name!!