Henry Coe

[Live2hunt]

http://www.coestatepark.com/wild_pig.htm

I was browsing the net and came upon this document. I read through the "Open The Park to Hunters?" section. I feel that the comment about hunters is totally misrepresentation of hunters. I wonder how much the the author know about hunters before posting such comments about them on net. In fact I think if the park is open to hunters, it will get hunters as additional visitors to the park. As I have never been to the park and have no reason to use the park, but if it has an open hunting season, the park will see me there.



L2H

 

[mrgadget]

He's a vegetarian bonehead. I loved the part about how if you let hunters in to hunt the pigs, there would be dead pig bodies littering the park to be left by the hunters for the vultures. Like ANYONE here would leave prime carnitas to waste.

He a veggie because he doesn't want to cause any animal harm. Yet he would advocate sterilizing them, and then letting nature take its course in the form of starvation and disease. And "natural" predators like mountain lions, bobcats, and coyotes.

What a complete idiot.

 

[Speckmisser]

As a State Park, it will probably never open to sport hunting. On that much, the writer was correct. I also agree with the suggestion that hunters will not be able to eradicate the hogs. However, sufficient hunting pressure WILL push the hogs off the area, and will make the animals far less tolerant of humans. This will make a big difference in the number of human/animal encounters.

I have doubts about some of the writer's other positions... mainly that the presence of hunters will reduce the numbers of other users (unless the number of hunters and times of access aren't controlled.. if not controlled, the place would quickly become a madhouse of urban hunters from the SF Bay area).

Here's the section Lone Wolf is talking about:

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Supposing that pigs are destructive enough at their current level of population (which I suspect is indeed more massive than that which was enjoyed by the grizzlies), couldn't the park be opened to private hunters for some season so they could shoot the pigs?  No, not without a major change in law, which prohibits hunting in state parks. But even if the law were changed, what good would it really do?  The park would lose other forms of recreationalists during this hypothetical hunting season (and even more if you allowed it year-round; how many of us want to hike and bike among hunters?).  And you would probably lose visitors even longer, for once the park obtained a reputation for being a hunting park, a significant portion of the public would stay away, based on misinformation or misunderstanding.

Most importantly, the private hunters would probably not be able to make a long-term dent in the population, hunting in the park would gain a political constituency and would then be hard to stop, and what do you do with all the carcasses?  Hunters could only take so many---big pigs are heavy---and do you let them drive all over the park, on dirt roads now closed to the public?  Or do you leave the hundreds of carcasses which would result for hunting to make a dent in the population just rot for the vultures?  I like vultures, nothing against feeding them, but I doubt many users would like to find pig carcasses around every half mile of trail.[/b]

Keep in mind if you follow the link and review this guy's website... it is an UNOFFICIAL site and not managed or maintained by government dollars.

Oh yeah... I wish they'd offer some kind of hunting opportunities at Henry Coe too.

 

[bigtusker]

The state paid about $45,000 to the last trapper who went in there. He gave 'em hell too, somewhere in the neighborhood of over 800 pigs trapped and killed. Makes me sick. My buddy has a ranch that borders Coe, we used to be able to go out and see lots of pigs on his ranch, now they are non-existent.

 

[Loye]

They should of trapped em and let them loose on some public land on the central coast.

 

[Cahunter]

I have driven though COe park to get to a friends ranch and that place is huge. there are parts of that park that people haven't set foot on in years. you can only hike in or ride horses. I live in morgan Hill and I have never been to that park, not many people use it now. So that guys claim that hunting would interfer other using the park is redicules. There has to be some way to get the rules chnaged about hunting that park. This is America , can't we get a initative on the ballot to vote a change in.

 

[Live2hunt]

$45,000???......I wonder if those money came from our taxes or just visitors' entrance fees. And 800 pigs trapped and killed, I also wonder where the meat went or did the trapper just let them laid somewhere.

86,000 acres is alot of land. With only foot, horseback, and mtn. bike access to it, there are definitely places that has not seen a human before.

I also wonder how many visitors the park gets right now. If it was open for hunting, I'm sure the park will get 200 visitors per weekend just like Camp Roberts and FHL.



L2H

 

[Cahunter]

I would bet that Coe Park dosen't get 200 visiters a month. Someone get Arnold on the phone!

 

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