Larry Dablemont Article

[MoCarp]

Thought I would share, learned a few things from this Article   

 

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Larry Dablemont;

Wild Hogs Are No Match for Helicopters---
I have heard a great deal from readers concerning last week’s column about wild hogs. There is a lot of outrage concerning the Conservation Department’s new regulations banning the hunting of feral hogs. As one reader told me, “I don’t want to hunt the things, I want to get rid of them. I will be darned if they are gonna tell me I have to let them be.”
The idea that you shouldn’t be shooting feral hogs is silly, unless there is indeed a trapping program going on, and then it is best to let them be. And if the Department had any common sense they would stop making stupid regulations like that, and send crews around to private landowners to teach them how to do their own trapping. A friend of mine from Harrison Arkansas learned all that on his own and trapped hundreds of feral hogs in north Arkansas. There is nothing complicated about it.
I guess there is indeed a better way. The MDC killed 43 wild hogs on Bass Pro Shop land next to the Osage River, owned by Johnny Morris, from their helicopter over a couple of weeks not too far back.  
MDC spokesman Rex Martensen told me over the phone that pilots would circle the land and MDC employees in the helicopter would shoot hogs they found from the helicopter. He said Morris paid nothing, they just wanted to help him out!  
He wouldn’t give me an estimate as to the expense of the employee salaries over that time, nor how many hours it took, but local residents say they saw the helicopter for at least two weeks. According to Martensen the cost of the helicopter use is about 200 dollars per hour! Boy what an economical helicopter! That means that if they spent ten days on the project for Bass Pro Shops, figure what that cost the taxpayers and license payers of Missouri. It cost 400 per day just to fly it from Jefferson City to the Osage River and back each day… a cost of around 4,000 dollars. Then if it was in the air just 6 more hours each day, the total cost goes to 160,000 dollars without even figuring the employee salaries (and all that rifle ammo)! Don’t expect to have that kind of free work done for just ordinary folks. All that to eliminate 43 hogs on Mr. Morris’s private hunting area.
If the MDC won’t do that for you and you want to get rid of hogs on your land, you won’t do it by hunting, no matter how good you are.
Even with dogs, you can’t get enough of them to eliminate a substantial population. Now the MDC does not want you to put out corn for bait. Without that you can’t trap enough of them to make a drop in the bucket.
Hog trapping is simple but you have to ignore that new regulation about corn and use it as bait. Most landowners ignore it anyway. Learn how to do it yourself. If you can build a pen, you can trap hogs.
What makes it difficult is that tremendous reproductive potential of those hogs, and the fact that their sense of smell, and hearing is so great. They have more intelligence than anything else in the woods, right up there with the smartest of dogs, and those people in the offices at Jefferson City.

I have a stack of news releases from the Missouri Department of Conservation which gives among other things, the timber sales they are involved in on public land owned by you and I and the other citizens of the state. If you think these areas are to be managed for the preservation of mature woodlands in a natural state for all of us to enjoy, for the propagation of wild game and wild birds, you might consider these timber sales figures that are taken from those releases that come from MDC Commission MONTHLY meetings….. Multiply these figures by twelve!
“ Recommendation to advertise and sell from state-owned wildlife management and conservation areas….1,147,379 board feet of lumber, 716,948 board feet of lumber, 3,312,753 board feet of lumber. 1,384,300 board feet of lumber,1,102,322 board feet of lumber, 1,453,200 board feet of lumber, 1,632,624 board feet of lumber….”. Logging companies and the M.D.C. make lots of money from the trees all of us own.

With these there are all sorts of land sales and purchases and trades too numerous to list in one column. If you are thinking of someday protecting an acreage of beautiful natural Ozark land that means a lot to you, don’t think about donating it to the Department of Conservation. The trees can be sold; your donated land can even be sold and traded to developers and individuals.  
If you have read this column in a newspaper, call them and thank them for not being afraid to print what is happening. Of the fifty newspapers receiving this column, there are nearly 20 which will print nothing not approved by the MDC. The above is all true, but it cannot be printed in any large newspaper and many smaller ones. You can read all about that in my fall issue of the Lightnin”Ridge Outdoor magazine. That is the power the MDC has. And sadly, any work Johnny Morris wants done on his land will be taken care of by the MDC---at NO CHARGE. That has gone on for years… he has received MILLIONS from all of us over the years, via the MDC.

Write to me at Box 22, Bolivar, MO. 65613 or email me at lightninridge47@gmail.com. Past columns, and this one, can be read, unaltered at larrydablemontoutdoors.blogspot.com If you have stories about valid experiences with the Conservation Department, I will print them in my magazine and my upcoming book on what they are doing. Just call me at 417 777 5227.

 

 

[Chief Grey Bear]

Screw Douchemont! He's the most disingenuous excuse for a human!

One doesn't even make three sentences into the worthless article, hit piece, before you read his first distortions of the truth. 

There is no ban on hog hunting except on public lands. 

[Gavin]

Dabblemont is a wack job....plain and simple. They do sell timber using selective harvest, because its actually good to do so. 

[jdmidwest]

Look how pretty our forest are now and they were all clear cut back in the last century.

Timber is a agricultural crop that needs to be managed for what it is.  You plant it, grow it, harvest it.  Plant some more and make money off of it.

Or let it go into shambles, die off, make a mess, and cause forest fires and pay for it with a loss.

How many tax dollars does Morris generate off the sales tax on outdoor equipment he sells that goes to the MDC?  Jobs he creates for the state?  Promotion of outdoor sports that generates licenses that support conservation?  Taxes he pays to the state? 

Then of course, his generous donations to the conservation efforts.  His promotion of the outdoors and all that is in it.

Dablemont is the relentless turd that refuses to flush.  It keeps popping back up in the toilet each time you flush.  He is a floater.

I could call the MDC and report a hog problem.  They would investigate and make sure what the best method of removal would be.  Then they would come in and try to get as many as possible.  Traps, helicopters, or any method they need.  They are the trained experts.  They seem to know what works.

[Terrierman]

Larry Dablemont. 

[Phil Lilley]

Tame it down a bit... or I could say thanks for not saying what you really think.

I've had my run-ins with Larry too.

[fishinwrench]

I don't think he's a wack job, or a liar, but his efforts to gather up a posse and make MDC accountable have continued to fail for so long that even I have become tired of listening to it.  

It would be more fun if MDC would respond, but they never do. I suspect because an open mouth gathers no feet.  If they could disprove his claims, or explain why things are done the way they are, in a way that would make sense to everyone, then I think they would.   

I know that if someone kept publicly accusing ME of wrongdoing I would definitely feel compelled to have my voice heard and make an effort to clear things up.  Freedom of speech isn't a green light for undue/unjustified slander.

[fishinwrench]

1 hour ago, jdmidwest said:

I could call the MDC and report a hog problem.  They would investigate and make sure what the best method of removal would be.  Then they would come in and try to get as many as possible

I wouldn't bet on that.   At least 4 calls have been made in my area about a deer problem but no action has been taken.  Since the only legal way to kill them is with a vehicle a few of the slightly crazy locals have put heavy duty brushguards on their trucks and started purposely mowing them down.  Kinda sick but hey whatever it takes.  The number of retarded doe's and button bucks around here is beyond rediculous, and the motorcyclist community is especially tired of all their buddy's getting hurt and killed. 

[MoCarp]

Let me be clear here, I posted this for information, I feel most of the states work is good, yet there is always the potential for corruption

after living in the south where hog hunting has been going on a very long time they can overpopulation so fast its hard for most people here to understand...they are hard on turkeys and will catch and eat fawns and until you hunt hogs, you will not appreciate just how savvy that can be!

as a note perhaps this is what set Larry D off on his anti state mantra

[Chief Grey Bear]

No, his anti-MDC rants started when he graduated college and they turned down his application for employment. About 40 some years ago. 

Its of no surprise that local top conspiracy theorist wrench comes running to his defense. They are one in the same when it comes to the MDC.