QU Comments.....

Following are comments from the original short-story after it was posted on Upland Journal Magazine...

Briarscratch

I think I need a drink after reading that! No wait, make it a double.
Hell of story MB.

L.Gallagher

You might have had a hand in it, but something tells me there were many, many hands in it, and that the problems started a LONG time ago. I've been hearing about problems with QU for more than a decade.

TooDogs

You know, if you'd of just smacked that yuppie in the beginning, things would have gone OK after that; so much for constraint
DowntownBang
My guess is they orchestrated their own demise. But still a good story.

HazelNut

Moe -- That is a helluva story. Don't know if smacking the yuppie would've helped save QU, but knocking the pi$$ out of Rocky Evans would have.

KDVollmer

A good story indeed, though had you just knocked him out back then, you would have felt lots better then, and you would still be feeling pretty good about it as you look back with a smile!

BearKat

Gives me a hang over just reading that. I agree with HazelNut. Should have found Rocky to knock around.

FrugalPointer

You post a story and I'll read it. Real life is always more interesting than fiction. FP

Dave Gowdey

Moe,

While it seems that you had more than your share of alcoholic folly - such follies don't bring down major organizations. As Linda noted, what brought down QU was that a couple of guys who founded the organization seem to have done so more as a way to make themselves a lot of money and to hobknob with celebrities than to help Quail.

I can guarantee you that had there been any indication that QU was really helping turn quail numbers around - it would be a healthy and thriving organization. Unfortunately, despite all of the hard work and money raised by members and volunteers for decades. QU has made little if any difference at all to quail numbers. Mismanagement, unprofessionalism, and a lack of financial integrity are what finally did QU in.

Your stories just provide some comic relief to what is otherwise a great conservation tragedy.

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