10-23-2008, 05:01 PM
It was good to see the positive response at the meeting last night. I always love to listen to Bill Loy Sr. His knowledge and down to earth way of putting things is refreshing in these times of parsing everything that is said.
My biggest concern is still the politics of the whole thing. As I stated last night, if you tell the public that you are spending $50,000,000 to recover a sucker, you are going to get a lot of resistance. Since the major outcome of the whole project is recovery of the whole ecosystem, that is the way to sell it.
Kent's concerns about the ongoing need to control the carp is also a very important issue. If I understand the math, once the tipping point in the population is reached, recruitment will not be sufficient to maintain the population and it fades. I believe that is what happens at Starvation with the Chub, recruitment is so low that the population there is 15-20 years old and there is no replacement of the adults as they die off.
I am optimistic overall, but still scared of what will happen when the polititicans get involved.
My biggest concern is still the politics of the whole thing. As I stated last night, if you tell the public that you are spending $50,000,000 to recover a sucker, you are going to get a lot of resistance. Since the major outcome of the whole project is recovery of the whole ecosystem, that is the way to sell it.
Kent's concerns about the ongoing need to control the carp is also a very important issue. If I understand the math, once the tipping point in the population is reached, recruitment will not be sufficient to maintain the population and it fades. I believe that is what happens at Starvation with the Chub, recruitment is so low that the population there is 15-20 years old and there is no replacement of the adults as they die off.
I am optimistic overall, but still scared of what will happen when the polititicans get involved.