County tables decision on lynx, By LISA KACZKE, Staff Writer

"If" you promote the introduction or habitat improvement of the canadian lynx, to our area, I would think that might just about mean the end of whatever snowshoe rabbits and partridge we have around here now. I guess its a decision of lynx that we can't hunt or trap or even want versus snowshoe rabbits and partridge which we don't seem to have many of now which many around here do like to hunt. We already have one major predator in the Fisher that will kill about anything that walks, flys or swims 5 times its size, so I don't figure we need any more predators like that around here to finish off the remaining rabbits, partridge and porcupine in limited quantity, that we do have. Lastly, I never ate any lynx but I figure they taste a lot like mink, fox or otter which I want to assure you taste a lot like I think thick battery acid must taste like. On the other hand, snowshoe rabbit and partridge taste a lot like chicken. I actually like chicken a lot.

It sounds like a wonderful and exciting program to bring in an exotic "new" species to our area but its like many wonderful and exciting things that the city kids want to do to "our" area. Sometimes the city kids with their "basket weaving" degrees just don't really understand "all" of the wonderful and exciting program they are proposing and we that call this place home then have to live with their errors.

I noticed that the late Iva Weir has donated $1.8 million to the preservation of the Loon and Loon habitat in Minnesota. I would sure hate to think that the "Loon" was on the "menu" of the Canadian Lynx. These two programs would seem to be counter-productive to each other but what does a country boy know about the menu of the Canadian Lynx. I suppose I could try eating Lynx instead of venison, partridge and rabbit.

I think your correct shooter, leave nature to nature and we will both be better off.

I say build a "double" 25 ft high fence between Canada and the U.S. and keep the Canadian Humans and Canadian Lynx on the north side!!!! I think the Republicans should adopt that plan on their platform, and they'll be sure to win in Nov. By the way, do the Canadian Lynx, speak English or French??