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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I applaud your statement. Aileen</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=dharguess@coastline.edu
href="mailto:dharguess@coastline.edu">Harguess, Dale</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
title=or-roots@sosinet.sos.state.or.us
href="mailto:or-roots@sosinet.sos.state.or.us">or-roots@sosinet.sos.state.or.us</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, December 08, 2005 2:47
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> RE: [or-roots] Cougars...</DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT id=role_document face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Very well put, I
agree.</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Dale</SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">-----Original
Message-----<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">From:</SPAN></B> <A
href="mailto:or-roots-admin@sosinet.sos.state.or.us">or-roots-admin@sosinet.sos.state.or.us</A>
[mailto:or-roots-admin@sosinet.sos.state.or.us] <B><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">On Behalf Of </SPAN></B><A
href="mailto:CKlooster@aol.com">CKlooster@aol.com</A><BR><B><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> Thursday, December 08, 2005 1:03
PM<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B> </SPAN></FONT><FONT
face=Tahoma size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><A
href="mailto:or-roots@sosinet.sos.state.or.us">or-roots@sosinet.sos.state.or.us</A></SPAN></FONT><FONT
face=Tahoma size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><BR><B><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> Re: [or-roots]
Cougars...</SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><FONT face=Arial color=black
size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Among
the bits of wisdom given me by my mother was "Bears are more afraid of you
than you are of them.". My mother had never met an Alaskan bear.
Bears...and I include both black bears and brown (grizzly) bears...are not
afraid of anything. That being the case, nobody in this Yukon
River community goes out of the village proper without a gun. Berry
picking is particularly risky since people and bears are both fond of the
berry patch; when berry picking, most people take a designated gunner to keep
watch. Still, in close to thirty years here, I know of no people in this
area injured by bears or wolves.</SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><FONT face=Arial color=black
size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">People
in the US seem increasingly to expect a world without danger
or risk...so much so that some people are willing to give up privacy, basic
civil rights and freedom for the illusion of safety and security. We
expect our children to be born healthy and to grow to adulthood; our
grandparents had no such illusions. We expect illness to be curable with
antibiotics or other pharmaceuticals; our grandparents sat anxious vigil with
herbs and patent medicines as the only help for sick relatives. We expect our
countryside to be free of dangerous wild animals and we expect to be old when
we die. I believe that when future generations (assuming there are any)
look back at this time, they will regard it as a time of great naivety.
We're running out of antibiotics effective against resistant pathogens; many
of this generation have immune systems unchallenged by serious virus or
bacteria infection. As recently demonstrated in Great Britain, security
cameras can only tell you who blew up the underground, small consolation to
those who were injured or to the families of those who died. We
may shortly participate in a pandemic...if not the bird flu, then another
variant. Our climate is changing rapidly and with extreme weather
results. In short, this is not now, nor has it ever been a safe world
and harboring the assumption of safety is actually pretty detrimental to
our survival.</SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><FONT face=Arial color=black
size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Cougars, bears,
wolves, and humans are all "top of the food chain" predators. Yet,
since the turn of the last century there have been less than two hundred
reported attacks on humans by cougars and wolves. Contrast that with the
more than 30,000 deaths resulting from automobile accidents each year. I
believe that many of the encounters and subsequent attacks on humans by
predators are a result of a lack of human vigilance; people strolling through
the countryside without paying particular attention to potential
danger. I don't regard wild animals as fuzzy would-be pets, but I would
not want to live in a world in which cougars and bears and wolves have no
place. I think the key is vigilance and respect.</SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><FONT face=Arial color=black
size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">And
that's my soap box.</SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
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size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Carla</SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
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