Bwana, I think you sum up the issue in many ways; yes, humans have screwed up many, many game and land management systems. But to eliminate the bullet as a management tool for simple reasons of personal feelings is ridiculous.

Here we had incredible hunting, understood the ecology of land management and had highly sustainable and productive game and land management units all over the State. Now the criminal Federal government in concert with the Envirus-mental crowd dumped wolves; imported for feel-good reasons and they are destroying the results of all those many years of hard-won efforts of the past. It is a tragedy that will some day be exposed for what it is.

I say if the Aussies have too many camels, goats, roos, whatever, cull them. To remove culling as a tool of management is absurd. If they can uitlize the carcasses, great, if they can't well, that is just too bad. It is their choice and sound management reasoning and economic considerations must be given first place in the decision-making process.

For all the ecologists out their that are rubbing their paws and sobbing, remember, the "best" ecological method would be in theory to leave the carcasses to rot, returning the biological material to the soil. To take off thousands of camels would be to remove that same biological material from the land and in the absence of adding fertilizer, would reduce the productive capacity of it! Yes, that's another way to look at it, especially with repeated removal efforts. Many ways to look at this stuff, isn't there?

Anyway, Sarg, are you saying that in some States a fellow cannot just go out in the bush and shoot some feral critter for his own consumption?