Lex Anteinternet: Tuesday, November 9, 1976. Smokey Bear dies.

Lex Anteinternet: Tuesday, November 9, 1976. Smokey Bear dies.:  The Forest Service mascot Smokey Bear died at age 26. The Smokey Bear campaign to combat forest fires had started in 1944, but in 1950 it w...

Tuesday, November 9, 1976. Smokey Bear dies.

 The Forest Service mascot Smokey Bear died at age 26.

The Smokey Bear campaign to combat forest fires had started in 1944, but in 1950 it was brought into living form with the rescue of a five-pound, three-month-old American black bear cub who was found in the spring of 1950 after the Capitan Gap, New Mexico, fire.  He lived in the National Zoo.

Lex Anteinternet: Lex Anteinternet: St. Hubert's Day.

Lex Anteinternet: Lex Anteinternet: St. Hubert's Day.: Window: workshop of Franz Borgias Mayer (1848–1926); Photo: Wojciech Dittwald, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons Lex Anteinternet: St. Hub...

Lex Anteinternet: St. Hubert's Day.

Window: workshop of Franz Borgias Mayer (1848–1926); Photo: Wojciech Dittwald, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Lex Anteinternet: St. Hubert's Day.: Today is St. Hubert's Day.  That is, the day on the Catholic calendar honoring this Saint. St. Hubert encounters the deer. St...

And, a repeat.  It's not only Election Day, it's St. Hubert's Day.

St. Hubert's Day.

Today is St. Hubert's Day.  That is, the day on the Catholic calendar honoring this Saint.

St. Hubert encounters the deer.

St. Hubert lived more recently, post Roman Empire, having been born in 656 and living until 727.  He was born in what is now southern France into a noble family, but was sent north to Paris at an early age.  Due to political turmoil, he was one of many who ended up it Metz as sort of a noble refugee and we need to keep in mind that France, as a solid political entity, didn't exist at the time. Anyhow, he married one Floribanne, daughter of Dagobert, Count of Leuven, and the couple had a son, Floribert, later the Bishop of Liege.  In this fluid political time, therefore, fate had taken Huber from Toulouse to Liège in an onward northern migration.

Hubert was not a religious man and that condition was amplified when his wife died giving birth to Floribert, a not uncommon fate for women at the time.  After that, Hubert took entirely to hunting in the Ardennes, living a solitary hunting life.  On a Good Friday, however when the faithful were gathering in Church in honor of that day (which is not a Holy Day of Obligation) he encountered a great stag and the it turned on him, cross between its horns, and spoke, saying:

Hubert, unless thou turn to the Lord, and lead a holy life, you shall quickly go down into hell.

It's hard to ignore a thing like that, to say the least, and Hubert dismounted from his horse and immediately, according to tradition, replied; "Lord, what would You have me do?", to which the reply came "Go and seek Lambert, and he will instruct you."  Hubert entered the priesthood and rose to the rank of Bishop of Liege, which he occupied until his death, at which point his priest son took over that position.  Both are saints.

According to the legend of his encounter, the deer also lectured St. Hubert on having higher regard for animals and engaging in human hunting practices, including taking old stags beyond their prime breeding years, and also to take sick or injured animals even if it meant passing up on a shot at atrophy.  There's more to it, but St. Hubert is accordingly still  held in high regard in Germany, Austria and France among hunters and ethical hunting principals taught in European hunting societies are attributed to him.

St. Hubert is the patron Saint of Hunters and is still celebrated in Northern Europe, where he is the patron of hunting associations.  In Germany, hunters celebrated this day as Hubertustag, pausing in the hunting season to honor St. Hubert.

As we had just referenced him in the post noted above, and we're further noting this day ourselves.

Subsistence hunter/fisherman of the week, Ernest Thompson Seton

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English born Ernest Thompson Seton, Canadian and American author, wildlife artist, founder of the Woodcraft Indians (Woodcraft League of America), and one of the founding pioneers of the Boy Scouts of America died on this day at age 86.

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And some important information from the Wyoming Sportsmen for Public Lands.

Wyoming Sportsmen for Federal Lands

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IMPORTANT PRIMARY ELECTION INFORMATION REGARDING WYOMING’S CONGRESSIONAL RACES! The following are our recommendations for the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives.

Our recommendations are based on our knowledge of the candidates, especially their positions or voting records relating to public lands, conservation and wildlife. Also important is their commitment to the democratic necessity of making decisions based on science and listening to their constituents, rather than strict adherence to party dogma. We hope you will seriously consider these recommendations which are derived, in part, from 10 years of administering this Facebook page. Note: an email address is provided for top candidates if you want to request a yard sign or assist with their campaign.

The House Candidates are:

• Jillian Balow, Republican: does not merit consideration

• Bo Biteman, Republican: does not merit consideration

• Kevin Christensen, Republican: merits serious consideration, kevin.for.ushouse@christensen2026.org

• Richard Dodson, Republican: does not merit consideration

• Steve Friess, Republican: does not merit consideration

• David Giralt, Republican: does not merit consideration

• Keith Goodenough, Republican: merits serious consideration, senatorgoodenough@gmail.com

• Chuck Gray, Republican: does not merit consideration

• Reid Rasner, Republican: does not merit consideration

• Elena Del Real, Democrat: does not merit consideration

• Lisa Kinney, Democrat: merits serious consideration, lisakinney2026@wyoming.com

• Jeff Haggit, Constitution Party: does not merit consideration

• Shawn Johnson, Libertarian: does not merit consideration

The Senate candidates are:

• Jill Edwards, Republican: does not merit consideration

• Harriet Hageman, Republican: definitely does not merit consideration

• John Holtz, Republican: does not merit consideration

• Sam Mead, Republican: merits serious consideration, info@meadforwyoming.com

• Jimmy Skovguard, Republican: merits serious consideration, jimmy@grassrootsmvt.org

• Billy Benevidez, Democrat: does not merit consideration

• James Byrd, Democrat: merits serious consideration, info@byrdforsenate.com

The primary election on August 18th is very important, so please vote. But be careful who you vote for because several of the candidates would be very bad for public land.

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I've really been trying to decide whom I'm going to vote for, for Congress, with my decision so far split between Balow and Christensen.  They're rating Balow a no/go.

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