While catchin’-up from my week
in the Ozarks, I read another article by Conor Harrison in the Lone Star Outdoor News which stated that
the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department will be extendin’ the use of permanent duck blinds
through the 2015-2016 waterfowl season in the Caddo Lake WMA. Really? Hmmm, well … no one should stare a
gift-horse in the mouth, but it seems to me that this is just a public
relations attempt by TPWD’s upper echelon to try and save face. Sorry y’all, but this issue ain’t goin’ away
that easily! Please don’t insult our
intelligence by thinkin’ that folks will forget about this over the next
year-and-a-half. All parties involved should
understand that this is a very unique
situation. But at the same time, please continue
to appreciate what-all our taxpayer’s
dollars help TPWD do for our
WMA. Quite a few of the locals impacted from
your mandate have had duck blinds out there three-times longer than your Department’s
inception in 1963. Yeah, I’d say
some feathers have been ruffled! Do y’all
not realize that these are the folks who are the true life-blood of Caddo Lake?
The rest of us, includin’ TPWD and
myself are just the curators and tourists.
So in this particular situation … I think the locals deserve a much better
resolution than an extension on their friggin' eviction notice! I truly hope and pray that we can all play
nice and come up with a solution that’s at least somewhat agreeable to the
parties involved. More to come …
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