Subject: Avoiding militia-birder encounters
Date: Apr 26 08:02:28 1995
From: Burton Guttman - guttmanb at elwha.evergreen.edu



The recent publicity about militia types raises a mild concern for me as
someone who frequently goes off into remote areas alone. Militia types
train and play their war games in the same kinds of remote areas that we
birders and naturalists love. I've always been slightly concerned about
running into some gun nuts shooting up the woods where I want to go; I'm
not a big guy, and I feel vulnerable. I don't like guns, but at a
friend's advice I picked up a little mace sprayer, which I keep in my
fanny pack. Anyway, I think anyone who has information about places
where any of these guys like to play their "games" should post the
information to Tweeters, so we can all avoid unfortunate encounters.

Burt Guttman guttmanb at elwha.evergreen.edu
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