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From Montana, and the bumper sticker has a picture of a wolf and the words "Shoot, Shovel, Shut Up". Perhaps the study was done exclusively in Missoula.

defrost 3y ago
"Increasingly OK with" does not mean absence of wolf shooting truck nut hanging bumper sticker politics. > Perhaps the study was ... Three-quarters of surveyed residents now self-describe as tolerant, up from half in 2017. ... researchers sent a survey to 10,000 Montana residents who were separated into four categories: * the general population, * landowners with more than 160 acres of land, * wolf hunting license holders, and * deer and elk license holders. > done exclusively in Missoula. No. It was not. The eight page study summary has the responses over three years broken down by the four groups in Figure 1, Page 2: https://fwp.mt.gov/binaries/content/assets/fwp/conservation/wolf/final-hd-research-summary-no-56-wolves.pdf https://fwp.mt.gov/binaries/content/assets/fwp/conservation/... The only group that didn't change their stance of the years were wolf hunting licence holders; land owners and deer|elk hunters became increasingly in favour of wolves, the general population concurred.
- client4 3y ago
  My "perhaps ..." comment was a joking nod to the fact Missoula is described as "the Berkeley of the West". I do appreciate you spending so much time on your Internet comments though.
  - defrost 3y ago
    > so much time on your Internet comments though. ?? How much time do you think that comment took? I type fast and I research fast - decades ago I spun up a mineral intelligence company that condensed tens of thousands of (power law distro) terse to quite dense documents per diem. Extracting the guts from a primary source and countering a bit of lazy snark took seconds.
    - client4 3y ago
      Again, I am impressed by your magnificent intellect. Thank you for sharing a little history of how your acquired it.

defrost 3y ago

"Increasingly OK with" does not mean absence of wolf shooting truck nut hanging bumper sticker politics. > Perhaps the study was ... Three-quarters of surveyed residents now self-describe as tolerant, up from half in 2017. ... researchers sent a survey to 10,000 Montana residents who were separated into four categories: * the general population, * landowners with more than 160 acres of land, * wolf hunting license holders, and * deer and elk license holders. > done exclusively in Missoula. No. It was not. The eight page study summary has the responses over three years broken down by the four groups in Figure 1, Page 2: https://fwp.mt.gov/binaries/content/assets/fwp/conservation/wolf/final-hd-research-summary-no-56-wolves.pdf https://fwp.mt.gov/binaries/content/assets/fwp/conservation/... The only group that didn't change their stance of the years were wolf hunting licence holders; land owners and deer|elk hunters became increasingly in favour of wolves, the general population concurred.

client4 3y ago
My "perhaps ..." comment was a joking nod to the fact Missoula is described as "the Berkeley of the West". I do appreciate you spending so much time on your Internet comments though.
- defrost 3y ago
  > so much time on your Internet comments though. ?? How much time do you think that comment took? I type fast and I research fast - decades ago I spun up a mineral intelligence company that condensed tens of thousands of (power law distro) terse to quite dense documents per diem. Extracting the guts from a primary source and countering a bit of lazy snark took seconds.
  - client4 3y ago
    Again, I am impressed by your magnificent intellect. Thank you for sharing a little history of how your acquired it.