Dec 22, 2010: Ramming Texas

Lamplighter · 12-22-2010, 09:21 AM

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Every year the Wild Sheep Foundation and Dallas Safari Club auction permits to hunt wild bighorn sheep in Texas, which sell for $70,000 to $115,000 per permit. Money raised goes to support research and habitat management for Texas bighorn restoration

This should be moved to the the "favorite oxymoron" thread

xoxoxoBruce · 12-22-2010, 09:29 AM

Why is that? 40 years ago the sheep had been decimated. Now, through this program, they are back to 2/3 of the original levels.

Lamplighter · 12-22-2010, 09:49 AM

I guess they didn't have permit auctions back then

But I do like the names of the two groups...
"The WILD Sheep Foundation" and the "Dallas SAFARI Club"
They conjure up such romantic images.

I can just see myself prowling through the skyscrapers of Dallas,
spotting the animals on ledges with my $1K Leupold scope,
and after the kill, mounting the beast on the wall of my den.
Oh, there's Mrs Palin and her caribou on TV

Ah, such sweet memories of "the hunt"

12-22-2010, 09:29 AM	#2
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	Why is that? 40 years ago the sheep had been decimated. Now, through this program, they are back to 2/3 of the original levels. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

12-22-2010, 09:49 AM	#3
Lamplighter Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Bottom lands of the Missoula floods Posts: 6,402	I guess they didn't have permit auctions back then But I do like the names of the two groups... "The WILD Sheep Foundation" and the "Dallas SAFARI Club" They conjure up such romantic images. I can just see myself prowling through the skyscrapers of Dallas, spotting the animals on ledges with my $1K Leupold scope, and after the kill, mounting the beast on the wall of my den. Oh, there's Mrs Palin and her caribou on TV Ah, such sweet memories of "the hunt"

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