"The Cost of Being Green Before Green was Cool" A 51 yr odyssey by TJ Elsbury

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Elsbury’s Book Bares Dire Effects of Western Wildlife Agencies Sloppy Policies          “The Cost of Being Green Before Green was Cool” unravels reasons behind the worsening conditions of the West’s environment and the mysterious spike in disappearances on public land in California 

WILLISTON, N.D.  – (Release Date TBD) – George Santayana once put it that “those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” Mule deer biologists, however, seem oblivious to this, repeatedly committing the same transgressions since the sixties, while pointing fingers at anyone but themselves. With this TJ Elsbury pens an intriguing exposition of how government wildlife employees fumbled the ball in his debut book titled The Cost of Being Green Before Green was Cool.

With six decades and tons of firsthand field observations Elsbury brings to public knowledge how wildlife personnel exploit resources they were primarily charged to protect. He reveals in exhaustive detail the reasons for the most protracted and frustrating western wildlife problem today: poor survival of mule deer fawns. To that end, decades of late hunting during their breeding cycle not only yielded the untimely deaths of the fawns but that of untold numbers of innocent citizens. Yet, no appropriate action has been undertaken to protect human life or to remedy the disrupted environment.

This book condenses the devastating effects of the biologist’s failure to take the bull by the horns and roll-back, first widely instigated in the sixties, late season hunting. Effects that include the crippling of the inner workings of ecosystems--when denied the natural abundance of their key species, more frequent, more destructive and costlier (in money and lives) wildfires and the maiming’s and deaths of untold numbers of children, adults, pets, and ranch stock. In reality they were savaged by mountain lions and to lesser degrees by black bears and coyotes that were thus short-changed of their natural prey.

In that respect to this very day CA. wildlife biologists don’t have a clue as to what caused coyotes bears and mountain lions to suddenly view man—especially children–as natural prey. For example wildlife spokesman Andrew Hugan when speaking of a skinny lion captured in a residential area of Yucaipa in late July 2013 said, “The major reason a cat comes to a populated area is in search of food. The big picture is habitat loss. There is no indication that the cat population is increasing”. While being basically correct about his first and last observation he could not have been further off on habitat loss if he had tried. In that regard there’s a parallel to what motivates mountain lions in the Los Angeles, San Gabriel and San Bernardino Mountains and it’s known as Vancouver Island. All in the mid-1900s had burgeoning deer populations: hunters on the island were harvesting 25,000 deer per yr. and in only the San Bernardino Mountains the deer population was estimated at 24,000. Said mountain population is now estimated at three to four thousand and the island hunters are only harvesting about 4,000 deer a year (Wolf related not man related as in California but having the same results).

Coincidently 2/3rds of all recent lion attacks in Canada have taken place on the comparatively small island while a score or more of people have mysteriously vanished in the three mountain chain. The point being, lions control their own numbers according to individual territories not by the amount of prey residing in them. Thus Hugan’s contention that the San Bernardino Mountain lion population has “recently” remained stable on the surfaces is correct. He simply left out, since it did not suffice for his agenda, the up to date differences in all the habitats: there are now untold number of big cats in each that cannot find sufficient natural prey.

Inarguably, wildlife ecologists must understand that the past is paramount when managing for the future. For instead of learning from history, they together with self-centered conspirators at The Ca. Mountain Lion Coalition turned a blind eye from problems that spun-off their combined actions. Hence, The Cost of being Green Before Green was Cool is not simply about the vindictive persecution the author suffered at the Fish and Games hands for literally costing them millions in lost revenue (by stopping many of their late season hunts), but also is an all-out exposition of the raw truth every citizen needs to know.

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About the Author

TJ Elsbury was born at Delmont Pennsylvania on December 26th 1936, took up hunting and trapping at the age of 12,  started doing taxidermy that same year, began photographing wildlife in the mid-fifties, and opened his first taxidermy shop in San Bernardino in 1962.   He graduated from California’s Victor Valley Jr. College in 1999, attended Montana State at Bozeman for two semesters and the University of Idaho at Moscow for six years graduating in 2006 with a near 3.5 GPA. He holds Bachelor degrees in Wildlife Biology, Mass Media and Journalism. He—to name a few--is a member of Phi Theta Kappa Society, a member of the College of Natural Resources Society and holds a Xi Sigma Pi (Forest Resources Scholarship Achievement Award).

                        The Cost of Being Green Before Green was Cool * by TJ Elsbury

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