Okay, disclaimer: This topic has been bothering me for several weeks and now I am FINALLY saying something about it. If you flame me for this. It will really piss me off, because Ive been mentally chewing on it. These are reasons it bothers me: 1. I had to take a ton of Wildlife Management and Range-land Ecology classes as requirements for my undergraduate degree, so Ive been forced to learn this from the pure science stand-point. 2. Some of my buddies that I went to school with, now make a living by managing the wildlife populations and ecological balance on chunks of land that are larger than many independent countries. If they didnt do this right, theyd be sacked. 3. I used to earn additional money during the summers when I was in school, working on cattle ranches in Northwest Texas, I spent all day on the range, and I noticed things. The topic: All hunting is bad and all hunters are bad people.. This is total and complete non-sense, and I can prove it. There are plenty of situations where hunting is necessary to maintain an ecological balance and allow wild animals and humans to co-exist easily in the same habitat. It is the job of a wildlife management professional to regulate and pay close attention to population levels, feed quality, moisture levels, etc. A hunter who is properly licensed and takes no more than their bag limit, is doing the habitat a favor. Poachers who illegally take game are the real villains because they make it more difficult for wildlife managers to determine population levels for some species that may need close attention (for example the wolves that were re-introduced to Yellowstone).
Posted on: Sat, 10 Jan 2015 18:28:26 +0000
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