I don't know what it is with fish and game departments, but they're quick to deny the existence of anything that doesn't fit their view of things.
Years ago up in interior interior Alaska, folks along the Kuskokwim River started reporting sightings of musk ox and ADF&G denied there were musk oxen inland along the river system.
Apparently the musk oxen were unaware they weren't supposed to be where ADF&G said they weren't, because they crossed over to the Yukon River side where folks started reporting seeing them.
And again......ADF&G denied their existence until they started up the Koyukuk and the villagers being villagers started whacking the non-existent musk ox on their subsistence hunts.
Then all of a sudden ADF&G discloses musk oxen DO exist on the inland rivers and no one can shoot them.
Everyone of these agencies treat you like you've just reported a UFO sighting, and as I far as the USF&WS goes, I wouldn't believe that bunch of misfits if they said the sky was blue.
Years ago up in interior interior Alaska, folks along the Kuskokwim River started reporting sightings of musk ox and ADF&G denied there were musk oxen inland along the river system.
Apparently the musk oxen were unaware they weren't supposed to be where ADF&G said they weren't, because they crossed over to the Yukon River side where folks started reporting seeing them.
And again......ADF&G denied their existence until they started up the Koyukuk and the villagers being villagers started whacking the non-existent musk ox on their subsistence hunts.
Then all of a sudden ADF&G discloses musk oxen DO exist on the inland rivers and no one can shoot them.
Everyone of these agencies treat you like you've just reported a UFO sighting, and as I far as the USF&WS goes, I wouldn't believe that bunch of misfits if they said the sky was blue.
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