Interesting, what people believe as long as it suits their agenda. Some back their thoughts with historical references, some believe what they want to. Commercial use and greed have been drivers of many wildlife population reductions and extinctions (passenger pigeon) were not sent to the frontier to be consumed . Demand comes from the hungry non productive masses in the cities hungry for the meat, the hides , the fur, the down and for some the money that can be made from it. Men shot game in large quantities to sell to people in frontier towns, forts, outposts and salted in barrels as well as smoked was sent east by the train load for money. When the Indians found out they could trade furs and hides for whitemans goods it started. When the white man found out he didn't need the indian to get the furs, hides and meat the Indian got factored out period. When a nyc jew named Lobenstein sent 200 green buffalo hides to Germany for development into commercial leather, success of this insured the buffalo's demise was going to happen. Leather made from buffalo hides used for power transmission of steam energy to lathes and mills for the industrial revolution of the US. Waste, lots of it, greed no small amount of that , total lack of respect for wild resource that can be exploited overwhelming. Don't need to mention the politics, or the thousands of dead buffalo that floated down the wests rivers every spring runoff, cattle born diseases and other natural mortality causes. An unprotected resource is allways doomed by human beings of all kinds , creeds, and races. That is why the second is wrote into our constitution to protect you and what is yours. I have spoken and if you don't like it GFY. MB
