01-13-2014, 06:41 PM
If you want deer, move to Spokane. If you don't like humans, become a Republican Senator.
This is the Gallapagos but we haven't treated it that way. There are plant and animal species that exist here and nowhere else on Earth. We are down to the last few now. Introducing axis deer is like taking a giant lawnmower to what remains of Hawaii's native plant life. It is not cost efficient to go hunt axis deer. You can buy chicken at Wal-mart for much, much less than you can gearing up for, bagging, transporting, cleaning, processing and storing an axis deer. This isn't about food. This is about gun fetishism. Those that transport axis deer here are criminals. Perhaps the state will set up an axis game hunting reserve on Kahoolawe. Then, gun fetishists will have a landscape as denuded as they seem to wish for the Big Island and the hunting will be more sporting as there will be a real possibility of stepping on unexploded ordnance. Perhaps the hunt will be televised on A & E. I'd tune in for that and fast forward over the boring parts.
As for the scourge of having haoles here on the island, I should say I just visited the Iolani Palace. They had crystal imported from Austria, along with many other coveted articles of European culture. Royalty wore ridiculous, full-length coverings that were completely ill-suited to the tropics. That told me everything I needed to know. There was complicity in the coming doom. I won't be complicit in any attempt to destroy what remains of Hawaii Island's native landscape and will oppose the importation of axis deer and will support their eradication.
This is the Gallapagos but we haven't treated it that way. There are plant and animal species that exist here and nowhere else on Earth. We are down to the last few now. Introducing axis deer is like taking a giant lawnmower to what remains of Hawaii's native plant life. It is not cost efficient to go hunt axis deer. You can buy chicken at Wal-mart for much, much less than you can gearing up for, bagging, transporting, cleaning, processing and storing an axis deer. This isn't about food. This is about gun fetishism. Those that transport axis deer here are criminals. Perhaps the state will set up an axis game hunting reserve on Kahoolawe. Then, gun fetishists will have a landscape as denuded as they seem to wish for the Big Island and the hunting will be more sporting as there will be a real possibility of stepping on unexploded ordnance. Perhaps the hunt will be televised on A & E. I'd tune in for that and fast forward over the boring parts.
As for the scourge of having haoles here on the island, I should say I just visited the Iolani Palace. They had crystal imported from Austria, along with many other coveted articles of European culture. Royalty wore ridiculous, full-length coverings that were completely ill-suited to the tropics. That told me everything I needed to know. There was complicity in the coming doom. I won't be complicit in any attempt to destroy what remains of Hawaii Island's native landscape and will oppose the importation of axis deer and will support their eradication.