This was my first big game hunt and I came up empty but had the most wonderful time at John's camp. I enjoyed myself so much I extended a second week. On one occasion I took a fifteen mile hike and came across a wolf at 500 yards on a logging road. He spotted me, I froze, he froze. When he sniffed the ground I went prone behind a rise in the road. As I crawled unseen behind the rise towards the top I peaked slowly for the wolf. He was gone. I never had a chance to sight in on him while he was marking his territory.

I had on three occasions bears either placed scat in front of me or behind me as I walked. I had one wolf at me as I was eating lunch and minutes later John and Bob (Mac) saw the boar walk across the road 500 yards from me. I was around the bend in the road behind a tree.


On one occasion I took a trail to the left of the river were the steel bridge is located over Hamilton Creek and walked to Hamilton Bay. Within 100 yards I came upon fresh black bear scat. Walked a trail that is primitive and peaceful. With the river down, because the tide was out, I walked along the waters edge where I spotted wolf tracks following behind a moose trail of tracks.

Towards the end of the walk one must cross the stream carefully were it is shallow and down only with the tide out. Once across you may locate a beaver dam. Carefully you can walk across the dam, about 3 feet high and 6 inches wide. Eventually you arrive at Hamilton Creek Campground. It's an easy walk to the access road from here.

Again I did not spot a bear but noticed many signs.

If you desire to visit John the bear stalker just give him a call or write.  John runs a primitive camp most men may enjoy.  Up early back late.  Lots of walking alone or with a partner.  I walked alone for two weeks and felt safe.

Good hunting.

These accomplishments include destroying Las Vegas tourism and yet President Obama continues to look for money and votes from Las Vegas union workers.  The same workers that once had jobs are now unemployed.

President Obama chastized american business succeses when he bashed those who have aircraft to perform business.  President Obama has been using tax payer funded travel to campaign on a Boeing 747 and supported by numerous advanced security teams costing taxpayers billions of dollars.

The following comment is from Gary Stein a former marine who voiced his opinion about the President while seving in uniform.

He has an impressive list of accomplishments!

First President to have a social security number from a state he has never lived in.

First President to preside over a cut to the credit-rating of the United
States.
First President to be held in contempt of court for illegally obstructing
oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico.
First President to defy a Federal Judge’s court order to cease implementing the Health Care Reform Law.
First President to require all Americans to purchase a product from a third party.
First President to spend a trillion dollars on ‘shovel-ready’ jobs when
there was no such thing as ‘shovel-ready’ jobs.
First President to abrogate bankruptcy law to turn over control of companies to his union supporters.
First President to by-pass Congress and implement the Dream Act through executive fiat.
First President to order a secret amnesty program that stopped the
deportation of illegal immigrants across the U.S., including those with
criminal convictions.
First President to demand a company hand-over $20 billion to one of his political appointees.
First President to terminate America’s independent ability to put a man in space (killing the Constellation program he said he would support during the campaign)
First President to have a law signed by an auto-pen without being present.
First President to arbitrarily declare an existing law unconstitutional and refuse to enforce it (Defense of Marriage Act)
First President to threaten insurance companies if they publicly spoke-out on the reasons for their rate increases.
First President to tell a major manufacturing company in which state it is allowed to locate a factory.
First President to file lawsuits against the states he swore an oath to
protect (AZ, WI, OH, IN).
First President to withdraw an existing coal permit that had been properly issued years ago.
First President to fire an inspector general of Ameri-corps for catching one of his friends in a corruption case.
First President to appoint 45 czars to replace elected officials in his
office.
First President to golf 73 separate times in his first two and a half years in office, 90 to date.
First President to hide his medical, educational and travel records.
First President to win a Nobel Peace Prize for doing NOTHING to earn it.
First President to go on multiple global ‘apology tour’.
First President to go on 17 lavish vacations, including date nights and
Wednesday evening White House parties for his friends; paid for by the taxpayer.
First President to have 22 personal servants (taxpayer funded) for his wife.
First President to repeat the Holy Quran tells us the early morning call of the
So–how is this hope and change working out for us?

TSA has developed a passenger safe travel program called TSA Pre.  The program is expanding across the country to expedite travelers through security lines.  TSA Pre check is currently available for eligible participants who have opted in at the Las Vegas McCarran International Airport for those passengers who use American and Delta Airlines.

TSA plans to continue expanding the TSA Pre check concept to include additional airlines, as well as airports that participate in CBP’s Global Entry program, once operationally ready.

Recently Senator Ben Nelson (D-Neb) introduced legislation that would bar the TSA giving preferential treatment to those passengers who have paid for first class travel to expedite through the long TSA security lines.

Currently a passenger pays $2.50 per enplanement and is imposed on not more than two enplanements per one-way trip.  Senator Nelson’s legislation is about fairness and safety.  He states, "regardless of whether you have a first-class ticket or have reached a certain frequent flier status, the purpose of the airport security screening line is to ensure traveler safety. Allowing a select few to cut in front of those who are waiting patiently, just in order to provide a perk, has nothing to do with safety.’’

Senator Nelson’s legislation may be moot because all passengers may opt in for expedited screening. TSA is partnering with U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) as well as U.S. air carriers as part of this pre-flight screening initiative. Certain frequent flyers from Delta Air Lines, American Airlines and certain members of CBP's Trusted Traveler programs, including Global Entry, SENTRI, and NEXUS who are U.S. citizens are eligible to participate.

The TSA web site indicates this approach is based on the following premises:

• The majority of airline passengers are low risk.
• By having passengers voluntarily provide more information about themselves, TSA can better segment the population in terms of risk.
• Behavior detection and interviewing techniques should be strengthened in the screening process.
• TSA must accelerate its efforts to optimize screening processes and use of technology to gain system-wide efficiencies.
• Increase security by focusing on unknowns; expedite known and trusted travelers.

There is an application cost for the enhanced TSA passenger pass through program.  It is not clear on any TSA site what the cost is to the applicant.  Interested passengers who are not eligible through their airline and are not already a member of a CBP Trusted Traveler program may still be able to opt into TSA Pre check by applying for one of CBP’s eligible programs. Click here to learn more: global entry

The TSA approach to security is a layered approach to security through new state-of-the-art technologies, expanded use of existing and proven technologies, better passenger identification techniques and other developments that will continue to strengthen the agency’s capabilities to keep terrorists off commercial aircraft.

Who manages your flight department, pilots, your aircraft and are they incorporating the use of EU-ETS - SMS - IS-BAO?  Do the rules they follow make passengers safe or simply create jobs?  Politicians say rules create jobs.  Actually the private sector generally creates jobs.

Aviation has been a magnet and dumping ground for excess rule making in the name of safety and political jabberwocky. Here is an example; "And when the final gleek was flort, Just two remained to zorch and vame, Which makes no diff'rence anyhow, 'Cause each one sounds the same!" by Alfred E. Neuman, Sounds regulatory to me.

Bottom line, any outside group that impacts business aviation operations via regulatory (FAA), best safety practices (SMS, IS-BAO) or best green practices (EU-ETS) increases cost to aviation department operations.  The increase in cost is derived by adding man hours and creating taxation schemes to comply with burdensome policies and regulatory enhancements. These man hour increases may be with existing personnel, sub-contracted with vendors or the need to hire additional personnel.

To staff business aircraft a minimum of two (2) pilots are required.  With the onslaught of ETS - SMS –IS-BAO  - Air Safety Rule enhancements, many aviation departments have or are considering dissolving, hiring a management company or perhaps joining a charter certificate holder.

Historical aircraft accident statistics and evolutionary improvement of aircraft engine performance design and pilot training it appears a natural parallel improvement of safety and reliability has occurred organically without adding the burdensome acronyms. 

EU-ETS has come home to roost within your aviation department by taxing engine carbine emissions.  The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) has recommended that all aviation authorities implement a path to an SMS structure.  IS-BAO would like to audit your aviation department.  All three increase cost and reduces aviation job growth and future employment in the name of safe operating practices. 

All three require participants pay to play.  Pay to play is the latest Obama plan to tax all business flights and other turbine-powered planes that use the U.S. air-traffic system an additional $100 per flight.  Is this tax for increase services provided, an increase in operating expense, a fee for future investment or perhaps past misspending?  Does the tax provide an immediate or future benefit to anyone?  This tax will be an impediment to aviation job growth. 

When one evaluates the severity of regulatory oversight in aviation, a pilot's time management of safety verses outside influences appears to be 75% outside the cockpit and 25% inside the cockpit.  Whereas in past years time management of safety was emphasized to be in the cockpit and the safety percentage was 75% inside the cockpit and 25% outside the cockpit. 

One must ask are pilots and passengers better off now than in years past?  This past decade aviation has become another we gotcha job do to the plethora of alphabet acronym intrusions.