a doe and tiny newborn fawn are seen along a steep bank next to the water... the doe climbs up the bank, the little fawn can't make it. we motor to the bank to make it flee the right direction where the doe is waiting, but it sees us and comes racing up to the boat, wanting us to help... even jumps in the water and swims around the boat wanting to get in, crying like a little baby .
You
get to thinking you have seen everything in the outdoors when you get to my
age, but this past week my daughter Christy and I were on the river when we saw
something way out of the realm of reality. There was a doe and a newborn fawn along the shore, beneath
a high bank and the doe bounded up over the top of it, leaving the tiny fawn
desperately trying to follow. He
wore himself out, falling back to the shore again and again, with his tongue
hanging out, crying pitifully.
I
figured if I paddled over to that bank he would run downstream and find a
better place to join his mother, who was watching us from above. When I reached the bank, instead of
fleeing he came running up to me, looking me right in the eye, only a couple of
feet away, as if begging for help.
Christy got out and he ran right up to her, crying much like a little
child. She picked up the little guy and took him downstream aways, boosting him
up a slighter bank to where his mother waited. The photos I took tell the whole story, and you can see them
on the website I have, larrydablemontoutdoors, or on facebook. We didn’t catch many fish, but it
was a day neither of us will ever forget.
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| Thousands of dead and dying crappie, catfish, sunfish, perch, bass...all kinds of fish |
What
gives you a good picture of what the MDC has become, is Mr. Matzke’s assertion
that game wardens are giving tickets to anyone taking more than a limit of
crappie, bass and catfish found dying along the shore! And of course you have to have a
fishing license to take anything out of that putrid water you might want to
eat. So thousands of fish therefore are being wasted, and the stench is
horrible. But hey, it is at least giving game wardens some work, and making a
little money for the MDC out of this mess.
Matzke
points out that the lake has been a good fishing lake for lots of folks over
the years. He says there is a news organization called Fox-4 Television,
possibly out of Kansas City, there today photographing the mess and talking
with MDC people. When it is all
over, the news media will likely show you how this is a good thing and we
should be proud of the MDC for providing a valuable conservation service to us
all. After all, they are trained
professionals.
The
meetings I had with MDC Director Sara Pauley in April were a dismal waste of
time, as most figured it would be.
Mrs. Pauley said some things that had me hopeful, agreeing to meet with
some people on a personal basis in her office. She instead turned it over to their lawyer and that ended it
all. I found she knew almost
nothing about what has been going on with her agency, and would not back up
anything she had told me. The MDC
lawyer, Jennifer Frazier, will always do her best to cover up what is
happening. I had to laugh when she
emailed me telling me she was going to do an ‘investigation’ involving a couple
of matters. If the public could
just find out the truth… but they won’t, with Ms Frazier on the job. See my summer and fall Lightnin’ Ridge
Outdoor Magazines if you want to read the truth about what is going on with
that corrupt agency.
My address is Box 22, Bolivar, Mo 65613 or email lightninridge47@gmail.com. To see the fawn photos, and the photo
of that putrid scene at Schell Osage, look on my website,
larrydablemontoutdoors.blogspot.com
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