Rusty,
I'm biting my tongue...I can say there was a work party this year on....OPENING DAY OF TURKEY SEASON...And it was not organized by management...I guess I/we didn't make the grade to be told of this work party till the day before....
Good on the guys that did go out and do a clean-up....It no easy task working out there....They obviously love Wister as much as many of us do.
I was told by management that anyone who wants to organize a work party could do so....Please bring your D-7 or heavier equipment to help remove salt cedar....Hand tools aren't going to cut it anymore....
Friends of Wister basically folded after I had exhausted the money raised and used on Wister....Many of the biggest contributors and workers are now getting really old too….Also, many were goose hunters....Which is pretty much a thing of the past now....
I said this on the podcast....You would think that the state of California with all it's tree hugging folks/politicians would want Imperial Wildlife Area (Wister Unit) to look pristine being it's the ONLY desert wildlife area in the entire southern portion of California....And I've said this too....My gut feeling is there's big money/politics involved here somewhere....Geothermal is knocking on the door all around Wister and in fact, part of Wister is owned by IID....Dying a slow death (like the Salton Sea) may be exactly what they want....
OK....I quit biting my tongue....
