I can't seem to find any reference to when they began implementing the 'no carry' laws there, but this was back in the 80s. I'll lay the blame on Macgyver
. I've had a SAK since before the show ever aired, but I definitely made sure I always had one on me after that show debuted lol. I've used a SAK to 'Macgyver' stuff more times than I can recall.
Much easier if you pull the handle scales.
That's exactly what I do. Then I decide I don't like lanyards and take the whole thing out.
Hahaha, yes, absolute classic. Wish there was still the Macgyver mentality here. I have been tempted to carry an SAK and just risk it and see what happens. It is just such a grey area that it really could be a risk or could be absolutely fine..I can't seem to find any reference to when they began implementing the 'no carry' laws there, but this was back in the 80s. I'll lay the blame on Macgyver
Yeah, I was thinking about it. And also I was thinking about removing the scales.
I have a friend who was a designer for Bethesda games, he designed the deathclaws in Fallout and the dragons and other monsters and some of the weapons in Skyrim. He didn't design the blade of woe but I took the liberty of sending him your pics of the knife and he was moved by the quality of your work. As I am. One day I hope to buy a knife from you!Behold the Blade of Woe!
Wow, that's too cool. Thanks for sending him the pics, I'll bet my kids will be impressed!
R: americans are unwilling to accept the visuals of practices needed to set our lands back on a natural successional path because we want them to stay the same.
So basically . . . Estonians are smarter than Americans. Which surprises me not even a little bit.There are quite a few issues under the surface that prevent thinning in the USA.
A large part of it is legacy views within agencies, budgets that do not allow for the NEPA to even be written (let alone actually do the work) and that's not even counting the people who don't really understand ecological processes enough to understand the need, nor being willing to accept that natural cycles that maintained these systems are not static, not pretty, and that they aren't static.
Lodgepole pine for example....
They need fire to completey burn out old stands in order for regeneration to occur. Clearcutting is the closest approximation of a stand clearing fire, but it looks like hell. Laymen hate it. They sue over it. Yet a lodgepole stand at about 200yrs becomes old and decadent. Without a stand clearing fire, the new cohort cannot develop in the way the species is adapted to regerate.
Our problem is much deeper than most understand.
Throw in encroachment of homes in the interface zones and now we are stopping fires to protect human interests, yet fuels continue to build, systems continue to diverge from functional and humans forget these systems need to have these events to maintain heathy processes.
All in all, "apex community" thought is incorrect and rooted in human values, not natural processes. Trying to force nature to do or look how we want is a large part of our problem, combined with not being able to accept that what we humans consider to be destructive is more akin to doing a clense instead of getting hit by a car. We manage for short term outcomes while it took many many human lifetimes for the homeostasis we perceive to be realized.
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