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Probably 10,000 geese landed on Iroquois this afternoon.

I was walking around with my fly down yesterday. I have no idea how it happened. Must be getting old.

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Fish near the inflows.

....... and the second day Greek goose wraps were even better. No ducks or geese flying around Keeney Swamp today......no grouse or pheasants either.

https://www.dec.ny.gov/outdoor/111196.html

Tonawanda-Iroquois has geese still. After dry plucking a goose and cooking it in a crockpot set low for 24 hours in two cans of Progresso beef barley soup I would have to say holy crap it was good!

....and a spray tan booth. Might clash with orange jumpsuit thou.

Or it may be a power play by the ranger's ....... http://www.adirondackdailyenterprise.com/news/local-news/2018/12/dec-wants-to-consolidate-ranger-and-eco-titles/

Not sure Rollie, but this whole proposal sounds so crazy that I can’t help but think this must be a sick game of chicken to try to serve notice to the DEC???? Absolutely nuts.

Yes usually it’s the yearlings as they don’t have enough fat reserves

I edited the original post. As I learn more about the proposed changes, apparently there is not so much a merger as there is complete removal of Econ officers with the immediate take over of all Econ officer duties by the Forestry Ranger division. This is troubling.

Jeremy’s house. He has taken his beagles way too seriously. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog_Bark_Park_Inn#/media/File%3ADog_Bark_Park%2C_Cottonwood%2C_Idaho.jpg

This model is sexy. https://www.savagearms.com/firearms/centerfire/hunter-series/220-slug-gun-ss-camo

Good question. When has technology tipped the balance of fair chase into “unfair”. Are we going to laser beams next lol. There also is the ethics of shooting that distance. The question of “can” we try to kill from that range was answered but the question of “should” we try to shoot from that range needs to be discussed. How are you going to put a follow up shot on a deer 800 yards away? How long would it take the hunter to get in his truck, drive down there and take up the trail? How many hunters watching that video have the discipline and knowledge to make that shot? Sorry this is one of those hijack deals. Back to Rob’s gun question

Amazing shot for sure but that is shooting not hunting.

I own a twelve ga Ultra Slug gun and it is a tack driver but a pain to lug around due to weight. It is a tree stand gun. Most of my family and friends I hunt with have the Savage Bolt in 20 Ga. if I had to do it again, I would buy the Savage. The two stage accutrigger helps your shooting as you will know exactly when the gun will go off.

Lol.

Not to demish the ranger’s importance. https://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/37167/20181008/pressure-grows-on-cuomo-to-hire-more-adirondack-forest-rangers https://www.adirondackalmanack.com/2017/07/nys-forest-rangers-adirondack-workload.html https://www.dec.ny.gov/regulations/2369.html

Forest Rangers are banging the drum to hire more Rangers because they are overtaxed with search and rescues. Their union rep states they are so overtaxed and stressed that they are “sitting by the phone waiting for it to ring” and yet state auditors say Rangers only spend 14% of their time on search and rescue. The truth may be somewhere in the middle but it begs the question why would they state they are sitting by phones (doing nothing) and then say they are overtaxed. Wrong choice of words. State/local police plus DEC Econ officers are all involved with search and rescue.

Little Cleos or a diving orange stickbait in the month of June offshore

Thanks for the report!

I don’t pretend to know all the ins-and-outs of the proposal as this has not become public knowledge and there is a gag order in place. What is in play in the discussion is..... - big business does not like doing business in NY because of all the expensive environmental assessment that is required before a shovel is put in the ground. There is some good regulation and some stupid. For example, paying an archeological firm to dig with a shovel every 100 yards to make sure you are not destroying artifacts is stupid IMO. Make sure chemicals are not being dumped in streams is good. Big business is anti-DEC. -Rangers want the change because many want to be able to learn the physical means to apprehend criminals. They call the DEC or police when confronted with a belligerent person in the field. - The governor has gutted the DEC Econ department by reducing funding. Pay raises and money to repair vehicles has been non-existent. Cuomo is on the record as wanting to do away with the DEC. Econ officers’ jobs will disappear. There has to be a public discussion before a wing of the government is dissolved. I would deplore you all to see what happened to the “Buffalo Billions” scandal on how cronism is alive and well in New York. I still don’t know how Cuomo has not been charged. Nothing sticks to him.

Sorry the message is cryptic rolmops but people's jobs are at stake so I will not give up my sources. I would use my warning to direct your state representative to look for the part of the proposed budget that deals with restructuring the DEC. Things get buried in budgets. Cuomo is trying to bypass civil service law by getting his anti-DEC agenda passed without a public debate process. The pros and cons need to be debated in an open forum not hidden.