From: Oklahoma Outdoor News
Wildlife Photography ©Jim Robertson
The government shutdown is causing headaches for Oklahoma outdoorsmen.In addition to campgrounds being closed on areas controlled by the US Army Corps of Engineers and popular destinations like the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge and the Chickasaw National Recreation Area, popular deer hunts are also being canceled.[!!]
This weekend’s youth deer hunts on the Salt Plains National Wildlife Refuge are canceled because of the shutdown. There were 24 youth hunts which has been scheduled this weekend and another 39 scheduled in two weeks.[How many deer does that equate to?]
Other youth deer hunts which scheduled in the upcoming weeks at federally controlled wildlife refuges are in jeopardy. Bow hunters are not allowed on the Chickasaw National Recreation Area, which was open to buck hunting once again this year. (Boo fucking hoo!]
A spokesman for the Okla. Dept. of Wildlife Conservation said the agency has received numerous calls asking about the controlled hunts. Hunters will be notified if their hunts have been canceled.
The popular archery deer hunts at the McAlester Army Ammunition Plant, however, are expected to go on as planned. [That’s too bad.] The first of six weekend hunts are scheduled next weekend in McAlester.
The Dept. spokesman states “From what we’ve been told, everything here is in good shape. Now they could call us Monday and tell us to shut it down.”
Hunters, campers and anglers will feel the pain of a long shutdown. For Okla. trout fishermen, less rainbow trout will be swimming in the Lower Illinois River in the future if the shutdown continues.
State wildlife officials normally add hatchery-raised rainbow trout to the Lower Illinois River near Gore, Ok. once per week. However every week the agency had been getting those trout from a federal fish hatchery. That will now stop, and trout from the state’s commercial provider only will be added to the river every week until the federal furloughs end.
Exposing the Big Game 
this is a small, short-lived victory, but great none- the- less. now if only the animal-torturing dr. frankensteins at the NIH could stay shutdown…
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Oh, how sad, the dickless wonders cannot satisfy their psychotic blood lust.
Stay alive, my friends!
I was wondering when you’d post about the upside. Its too bad no one can do a study to see want impacts there are when there is no killing in the parks. I wonder how fast it would take for wildlife and ecosystems to reach some state of equilibrium without the freaks running around with bows and arrows, knives and high powered rifles killing everything they come across and each other as we have been seeing lately. I find it so hard to understand that its 2013 and its business as usual despite the science that tells us how many negative consequences are associated with habitat loss, human trophy hunting of large carnivores or other mammals. I hate hunting season, and seeing birds drop from the sky when I know they are on their migration routes and that every stop they make some bastard is shooting at them as they try and feed rest or land or to know that wolves and other beings are running from these sadists.
Yep, it doesn’t seem like we’re moving forward. But I do have faith that wildlife will quickly reach equilibrium again, as soon as humans lay off.
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Something to be thankful for at least
Hi Jim, thanks for taking notice on the “upside” to this point. Except for the pathetic animal torture lover Gov. Walker and his band of thugs he put in place the Walker Made Wis DNR. He declared Wis “Open for season” and decided to not pay attention to any rules, like a spoiled rotten rich brat that has a bunch of tea-party Koch-brothers backed funded money. This corruption has really gotten out of control, anyhow. The Federal parks in Wis. are supposed to stay open for hunting, this is so important because we are having the first ever dog-fighting in the woods here. Oct. 15th Wolf-vs-Dog goes on as planned and we sure would not want those no-necks to lose out on the under table betting. Disgusting to see all the wildlife slaughtered so they can have thrills and send everything off for profit. Taxpayers even get to pay for the hounds getting replaced by these goons. Appalling. ……..KING #Walker DECLARES FEDERAL LANDS OPEN! in Wis! also, first ever #Dogfighting with #wolves and #dogs on Oct. 15th Bring Cameras to record NASTY FUN!
http://thehill.com/blogs/e2-wire/e2-wire/326611-federally-funded-wisconsin-state-parks-remain-open-under-shutdown#ixzz2gmbYajVC
Maybe this is an idea: Vacation time for wilderness critters 2-3 times per year from nimrods (great white hunters) and tourists and campers!