Comments by Glacierwolf
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Posted on August 26 at 9:27 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Jerry - hopefully you can knock some sense into public radio - it lacks balance, common sense and needs to lighten up. Each time I tune - it reminds me of living in a communist county. I try to listen to it about once or twice a month......get the other side of the story...... but I cannot hack all the anti-American, anti-democracy, and Bush bashing. I understand this liberal adgenda can't survive in commercial radio - but that is no reason for tax dollars to pay for extreme left alternative anti-US propaganda.
Good luck on your new job! I'll miss ya on my morning drive. Crapper Creek just won't be the same with a population of 1.
Posted on August 24 at 10:52 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Everyone talks a good talk on desiring alternate energy - yet we don't see anyone except CHS resort actually doing anything about it. It's expensive - I'll give it that. I started adding solar panels to my home a few years ago and intend to add a few more before this summer is finished. I can't afford to buy a ready made full home system from ABS - but - ABS has been extremely helpful as I piecemeal a system slowly together panel by panel.
Still, why all the talk - so little acton? If this were new ATV, snowmachine or rifle technology folks would be all over it. There seems to be a community or area wide distrust of solar and wind power. The solar cells of 20 years ago certainly had no place in Alaska - but the new ones now pack more watts per square in and yield energy even on a cloudy day.
This is certainly one area where a 500 million dollar grant would go a long way to help people out - adding solar to homes.
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Posted on August 20 at 9:02 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Obvious most of you commenting on this are not experienced hunters.
Many people cannot remember what they had for dinner last night - let alone recall events where 'at the time' would be a non-memorable ocassion. This is very common in court cases - everywhere, and all the time - why appear so shocked at this now? 5 people witness an event and everyone has a different story. Why be surprised?
Kings gets convicted of this - it means all Alaskan hunters will need to travel with a lawyer, surveyor and certified GPS expert in the hunt party. And an 11 year internet genius to decode web site mumbo jumbo.
That the government had to import a GPS Expert to determine the precise location of the kill site should be a huge red flare flying in the sky. That means nobody - troopers, park rangers, park employees, the defense or prosecution - could agree on the readings GPS units gave as a location.
As a long range rifle instructor I am totally amaized at how bad people judge distances. I have had guys brag about their 400 yard shot at this animal, their 500 yard shot at that animal...... and when I point to a marker I have laser range'd at 200 yards they say 'Oh, it was closer than that'.
If you look at any of the maps at the F&G state web site - please note that nearly all the boundaries marks are nearly 1/4 mile wide. This issue is over a disputed 600 foot error. It shouldn't be in court.
Posted on August 19 at 9:09 a.m. (Suggest removal)
GPS, like LORAN (Long Range Aids to Navigation) is subject to 'variance' of +/- 300 yards unless you are using a military encoded receiver that yields +/- 20 yards......... and only the military encripted verison will correct for intentional added errors.
The best feature of GPS and LORAN is the ability to return to a place time and time again. After that - navigation goes off track. Anyone who has used a GPS or LORAN knows the only time a mapped position can be navigated to is if both the receiver and map are set to the same map datum - roughly 6-13 different datums have been used over the years. Unless the users knows exactly what datum the Park's boundaries are marked with - it's basically just Russian roullet trying to match your GPS/LORAN to something printed on a map.
Anyone who has used a GPS in the Interior knows it is dramatically effected by mountains and terrain so much it can effect the receiver's ability to find a previous mark. I think Denali Park has a high mountain in it.
Before all the fancy electronics hunters relied on visual land marks. Although I am an experienced ocean and land navigator - doubtful I could determine my exact position by anything better than a half mile with or without a GPS under the circumstances of this situation. If you doubt this is true with GPS - stop on by Beaver Sports, grab a nice new GPS out of the box, load up some batteries, and write down the long/lat from the parking lot. Then check it's location on a topographical map they also carry. You'll be about 3/4 of a mile off. Next, check the datum date on the topo map and set this into the GPS - you still won't be in Beaver Sport's parking lot - but closer. Last - notice how LONG it takes you to figure out how to enter this datum date into the receiver, and, try to find this date from the Park's web site.
Bottom line. 600 feet is too small of a measure for a hunting violation in Alaska unless a known visual marker - like a fence - is readialy available for all to see. An experienced GPS user would not be surprised to encounter an error of this size in the Park, or, between different receivers, or, the same receiver while returning to a known point.
Posted on August 16 at 11:33 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Once again, a bunch of young folks with nothing better to do with their time take a cue from Hollywood. No doubt when the temperatures hit -45F these guys will be more reluctant to roll down the window.....
The base command and especially the NCO's need to take more interest in what their troops are doing after hours. As a retired military vet - I can assure you when the guys in your command start pulling this crap it is noticed by EVERYONE who works with them - it does not go un noticed. The base's Commanding Officer has the power of the UCMJ - it's rules of evidence and juristiction are specifically designed to handle this behavior. However, it is up to base CO to envoke it - and task his officers and NCO's to enforce it.
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Posted on August 8 at 9:13 a.m. (Suggest removal)
I live in North Pole. I do not think people realize just how good a neighbor the Army Corps of Engineers at Chena Lakes Recreation Area are. They are the nicest and easiest to work with federal agency on the planet - and - allow use of their land to all users year round.
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Posted on August 5 at 7:28 a.m. (Suggest removal)
It's a stray comment. An exceptionally poor choice of words on the TC's CEO's part. He should have already understood the resentment Alaskans will always hold for Exxon.
Posted on August 3 at 10:58 a.m. (Suggest removal)
The correct terms are 'Poachers' and 'POACHING'. Notice how the DNM has consistantly refrained from uisng the correct word to describe the persons involved in this armed crime.
Armed robbers are not 'bank customers' and theives are never called 'art collectors'. Are school yard bullies under age law enforcement? If a psycho killed 60-120 farm or zoo animals would they be hunters too? I would think a newspaper, an entity that depends on words, would strive to use the correct one.
The second elephant in the room - is race. On talk radio last week - Joe Nava's Shooting Corner - I leaned the practice of natives firing blindly into a herd of caribou is called 'herd hunting'. Several others called whom had witnessed Herd Hunting by natives in other villages. Seems Herd Hunting is in fact a long standing practice in the villages. So..... why were the elders and people of Pt Hope quick to blame non-natives when this crime was first reported? This was an opportunity for the native elders to bring the practice up - and - make a case for it. Instead, troopers had to verify no charter flights were in the area for weeks - and return to square one.
Why has the practice of Herd Hunting survived to this day? It is not mentined in the hunting regulations. I hope this is not something our Wildlife Protection Troopers have overlooked on purpose in the past. I would like to believe they never had enough evidence to pursue without it appearing racist.
If Herd Hunting is what the natives need to get the caribou when the getting is good - we need to decriminalize the act - and set some ethical standards so similar events of waste never happens again.
Posted on August 2 at 12:29 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Drill Now. Pipe it to Prudhoe Bay, and get it into the Alaskan Pipeline. Might take 2-3 years before the oil is online, but, deffinitly not the 10 years I am hearing people in California and Washington stating.
Unlike most Alaskans - I have had to work in the ANWR. Knee deep muddy water - mosquitoe city - a treeless marsh so flat you could watch your dog run away from home for 3 days. Caribou do not live in this enviroment. That awesome picture of ANWR with the caribou and Brooks Range in the background everyone likes to publish...... it was taken South of ANWR, off the ANWR land, while the photographer was facing away from ANWR to take it. Had he turned around and taken a shot of ANWR it would have been a wide angle pic of a flat mudland with loose grass.
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Posted on August 27 at 11:58 a.m. (Suggest removal)
They are holding the public meeting at the Park in the late afternoon on a Wednesday normal work day? That means anyone with an opinion on this project needs to take a half day off from work, spend over $150 in gas, plus the cost of dinner in Healy - just to voice an opinion? Might as well be hosted at the summit of Denail mountain. Why doesn't the Park Service just come out an say public opinion is not welcome on this project........... rather than hide behind a logistical nightmare for anyone to comment or attend?
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