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Unreal!
I really hope I don't have to vote Romney.
I will vote who ever is against the guy in office.
I got my siggy pulled today. Too bad I liked it.
Wonder how long this one will last?
I have dry fired it and it seems smooth. I don't think I will miss my target because of a hard trigger. How many does yours hold in the clip?
Sounds nice. I love living in the country.
If he is I will vote for him. I prefer Newt.
I will vote for anyone but Odumba
Good luck with those wolves! They are moving in every where.
I live 17 miles from from town in the mountains. I have 62 acres up here. I haven't seen any wolves up here yet. They are coming though.
When they show up we will deal with them.
I am real excited to get it ready. Looks like it will be lots of fun. I will have to get some Lapua ammo. I will be loading up some as well. I want to try the 300 gr Berger 300 gr Match Hybrid OTM Tactical. Looks like an amazing bullet for the gun.
I love the shotgun. It fits just perfect in my pack. When I'm out riding I always have my XDM40 on as well. I try to be ready for the situation what ever it might be.
Just picked it up tonight. Had it on layaway. Can't wait to play with it.
Didn't you tell me once you had a 338 Lapua?
I just picked up a Savage 110BA in the 338 Lapua. Now I will have to save up for a scope.
I bet you they go after Santorum now with the same energy they attacked Newt. $113 per vote is unreal!!!
This year hunting I was in an area that was very difficult to access
due to severe conditions. We had to cross a mountain top across the top is over 7 miles with 30 to 40 MPH winds heavy snow and near 0 temps. the only way to get there was on my 4 wheeler you see on my picture. There we 3 of us that made it down to bear creek at the bottom of a deep canyon. We found 2 dead elk and watched a pack of wolves chase the last few elk over the top of the hill away from us. We didn't have time to shoot the wolves or they would be dead. The cow and calf we found were taken down by the wolves going after the Achilles tendon and the ripped there throats out. Sad. We told the Fish Wildlife and Pricks about it when we went through the game check. They really didn't care. They gave us a card to fill out and send in. Not heard a word since.
They sell thousands of tags and then end the season before all quotas have been met. The quotas were bull shill low to start with.
We need to S.S.S.
I have been hunting here for 35 years. I have never seen the deer and elk population this low. I watched a news wildlife segment on our local channel where they show a pack of wolves killing a grizzly bear.
I think all states should follow their lead.
I agree 100%!!!!!!!! Newt or Rick my choice!
I just hope when Paul get eliminated he does not go independent. He will get obuuma a 2nd term.
I like what Santorum is saying tonight. Good for him!!!!
I am confused??? Did you read my post?
I said if Perry drops out the followers won't go to Paul???
I don't even like Paul........
Sounds like Perry will quit. His followers will probably not go to Romney or Paul IMO. Might help Santorum or Gingrich
This is what needs to happen again. I can't believe that these idiot pro wolf idiots came up with the killing of 2/3 of the elk in Yellowstone could be a good thing. I guess the parks will be filled with people coming to look at the trees because all the elk and deer will be dead! I bought a wolf tag here in Montana but half way through the season they closed the hunting for wolves in over half the state, They made the money from the wolf tags. Thats what matters to them!!!
Yellowstone wolves help trees rebound, study says
BILLINGS — The return of gray wolves has dramatically altered the landscape in portions of Yellowstone National Park, as new trees take root in areas where the predators have curbed the size of foraging elk herds, according to scientists in a new study.
Stands of aspen, willow and cottonwood are expanding in areas where for decades dense elk populations prevented new growth, said study author William Ripple from Oregon State University.
While other factors may play a role, from a changing climate to wildfires, more than a decade of research has confirmed earlier assertions that the return of Yellowstone’s elk-hungry wolves has spurred new plant growth, he said.
The findings from Ripple and co-author Robert Beschta will be published in the scientific journal Biological Conservation. The study already has been released online.
Wolves are “apex predators, on top of the food web,” Ripple said. “They’re more than just charismatic animals that are nice to have around. We’re finding that their function in nature is very important.”
Wolves have spin-off benefits, too, the researchers said: As trees grow taller, the stands provide more habitat for yellow warblers and other songbirds and more food for beavers, which in turn construct ponds that attract fish, reptiles and amphibians.
The phenomenon has been described as a “landscape of fear” in which a predator’s pursuit of prey has a cascading effect across the ecosystem.
Wolves were reintroduced to Yellowstone from Canada in 1995 and 1996 after being killed off early last century. About 100 now roam the park, thinning elk herd numbers as they feast on the big game animals year-round.
Other studies have indicated a single wolf can kill several elk or more each month during the winter.
Some scientists dispute the claim that wolves have sparked a restoration among Yellowstone’s aspen.
In a 2010 study, U.S. Geological Survey scientist Matthew Kauffman agreed that foraging elk were the leading cause of the trees’ decline in the park over more than a century. But Kauffman said the decline has continued since wolves returned, even in areas considered risky to elk because they are frequented by the predators.
That’s because elk alter their behavior only slightly to avoid wolves, concluded Kauffman, who also heads the Wyoming Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit. Although elk numbers are down by about two-thirds in some areas of the park, herd numbers would have to drop even more for aspen to recover, Kauffman said.
Aaron Wirsing, a University of Washington biologist who studies predators’ effects on ecosystems, said more than 15 years after wolves first came back to Yellowstone, the debate surrounding their impact continues to stir disagreement.
Others have said the work by Ripple and Beschta has not given enough credit to factors such as drought and stream levels.
Wirsing said those other factors should not be ignored but added that the emerging consensus is wolves play a central role in the park’s landscape.
“The weight of the evidence is certainly coming down in favor of wolves having a particularly profound impact on aspects of Yellowstone’s ecosystem,” he said.
Studies on other predators have found similar top-down effects on their surroundings. With fewer lions, researchers said increasing numbers of baboons in sub-Saharan Africa are pushing into settled areas where they raid farmers’ crops more frequently and can spread intestinal parasites to humans. And fewer sharks along the East Coast has led to more rays, which in turn eat more scallops, wiping out some local fisheries.
One difference in those studies and the work in Yellowstone is that in most other cases, scientists have been left to study what was lost when a predator was gone. In the park, scientists have been able to track what happens after the predator came back.
“Being able to look back retrospectively gets us very close to being able to determine the impact of wolves,” Wirsing said.
Ripple said the results of his work with Beschta suggest wolves also could have positive effects outside Yellowstone. More than 1,600 gray wolves now live in the Northern Rockies, and elk numbers have dropped as a result.
But given the backlash wolves have encountered among some ranchers and elk hunters, more research needs to be done to determine how many of the animals are needed to be an “ecologically effective” population, Ripple said.
“The question is, how many wolves does it take?” he said.
http://helenair.com/news/local/state-and-regional/y-stone-wolves-help-trees-rebound-study-says/article_3307807c-35d8-11e1-8f2e-0019bb2963f4.html
thats why this POS can't be re-elected. He wants to change this country alright. Take a great nation and put it to its knees!!!!!!
All the people that have died to protect he signed it away!
odumbass is an idiot and will be toast this year I hope!
I don't think this country can withstand 4 more years of racial divide, class warfare, record unemployment, bigger government, and on and on. This useless POS can't even talk to grade school kids without a prepared speech on a teleprompter that someone with a brain loaded on the computer.
Iran Says It's Produced First Nuclear Fuel Rod
http://www.newsmax.com/Headline/Iran-Nuclear-fuel-rod/2012/01/01/id/422715
No Im not a Paul supporter. I would vote for hm before the idiot we have now. Anyone but obama!
Oh happy new year.
I am going to be nice and say good night.
Lets hope 2012 is a better year. 2011 sucked.
Just hope people wake up before the end.
Vote anyone but oidiot
I would take bush over the idiot in office.
I would prefer a good American not trying to kill this country.
Well its 2012 now. Omaget the f..cm out!!!!!!!
That drone should have been blown to bits once it fell into enemy hands. obama was in re-election mode! or golfing. He is useless! He is killing a great country!
exactly! against Oidiot you hate all blacks! I hate pelosi does that mean I hate all whites too?
odumbaas spent us into oblivion. Nice that the navy seals got osama. Iraq is falling apart. Millions being spent on a Hawaiian vacation. Unemployment out of control! Jobs going over seas! Hands tied on domestic oil! This idiot is in election mode screw the country!!! If this idiot gets re-elected we are screwed. Not bad!!!!!!!
Good question who bought them??
I think we will be up near a buck again next week.
Tuesday should be a good IMO
I'm not too worried. I think it was an illusion fabricated by the MM's. Like I said the buys and sells were almost even so i think they were trying to make those that were on the fence with their fingers on the sell button sell. I think next week will be just fine.
I have Scot trade elite and I was running time and sales all day. From what
I can tell the trades were evenly mixed buys and sells. Other then manipulation
I can't see any reason for the stock to fall as far as it did.
We stand up to our necks is crap. Sorry to say shes dead.
Hummm your right? ?? Shows. .78