Lilred's Rant of the Week: The Commonwealth

[skeeter@ccia.com]

hntr...better watch inviting the easterners out there...look at what happened to cadifornia and hoddyvood....I loose hunting ground every year here in W.PA....in one year alone the count was 13 of my favorite places to be. New housing plans with the 3 and 4 thousand dollar house and the money they use to buy and post all around them. A new extension of the PA turnpike cut through 1/2 of 4 hills that held deer on one of them at any given time. The mount I have on the wall was the last deer taken at what is now a toll booth.. which is x the road from the old homestead the state bought for the road. The airline pilots are buying farms in the last of the rural areas here and either selling them off for houses or posting them all...along with going to council meetings to eliminate the spread of fertalizer...the federal government tries to tell the farmers what they can and can't plant or do on their land....so far the farmers keep a hold....the farms I hunt on have no government loans and keep the feds off the property...so far......the money a Dr. has got the new road moved to the next hill so it wouldn't interfere with his posted land....which by the way use to be my backyard.......PA is loosing the hunting numbers. Some due to older age, some to economics but the biggest reason given to why they gave up hunting?...Loss of places to hunt....which is another game plan of the antis.....no place to hunt.....not need guns......hummm