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CHUKAR REMOVAL AT JOSHUA TREE
Jim Matthews column 8/13/09
Outdoor News Service
Apparently the Joshua Tree National Park Service staff is looking for possible non-lethal ways to remove "non-native" chukar from the park. Anyone who's ever hunted chukar is laughing out loud right now. We know they'll never get rid of chukar. It has been said that after a nuclear holocaust, the only thing surviving would be cockroaches. I'd wager there would be chukar around to eat them.
So I have a helpful solution for the NPS: Since more people visit my house any given week than visit Joshua Tree, the smart thing for the Park Service to consider would be a hunting program for the park's chukar. That would at least attract people to pay the entrance fees. Make the limit on chukar "all you can carry" and guys would flock there. Not that it would matter much. Most hunters I know realize that chukar are like mule deer: If you bag just one a season, you brag about it.
Jim Matthews column 8/13/09
Outdoor News Service
Apparently the Joshua Tree National Park Service staff is looking for possible non-lethal ways to remove "non-native" chukar from the park. Anyone who's ever hunted chukar is laughing out loud right now. We know they'll never get rid of chukar. It has been said that after a nuclear holocaust, the only thing surviving would be cockroaches. I'd wager there would be chukar around to eat them.
So I have a helpful solution for the NPS: Since more people visit my house any given week than visit Joshua Tree, the smart thing for the Park Service to consider would be a hunting program for the park's chukar. That would at least attract people to pay the entrance fees. Make the limit on chukar "all you can carry" and guys would flock there. Not that it would matter much. Most hunters I know realize that chukar are like mule deer: If you bag just one a season, you brag about it.
