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Title:	The Hunting Notesfile
Notice:	Registry #7, For Sale #15, Success #270
Moderator:	SALEM::PAPPALARDO

Created:	Wed Sep 02 1987
Last Modified:	Tue Jun 03 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	1561
Total number of notes:	17784

105.0. "Why should we hunt?" by CHISEL::REGO () Wed Dec 23 1987 17:42

Why do we hunt?

The following is clipped out from the paper:

"Hunting can help prevent over-population of wildlife species. Unless 
controlled, Surplus numbers of wildlife die of starvation or disease 
usually brought on by malnutrition. Most plant-eating species (such as
deer and moose) damage or destroy their ranges if not kept in balance 
with available food.
	Controlling surplus numbers of wildlife by hunting can prevent or
reduce damage to farms,forests,garden crops,orchards, and livestock.
	Hunting reduces personal injury and property damage resulting from
wildlife being struck by automobiles.
		Hunting reduces the incidence of wildlife diseases, such
as rabies and distemper, Which may be transmitted to humans, pets and 
livestock.
	hunting generates funds used to finance the protection and management
of all wildlife, including song birds and other non-game species."


mike

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
105.1	Have The Facts Then Drop'em	SALEM::PAPPALARDO		`Thu Dec 24 1987 09:56`	16
	I believe in the NRA's American Hunter last month they kind of dicussed this issue and they also used the Pitman-Robertson Act as a solid foundation. In the article they sumed up last years revenues around the sale of licences,tackle,firearms,and ammo thru out the U.S.,the outcome of all of this was 100 billion to Wildlife Management. So next time someone starts breaking your BALLS about how cruel you are ask them if their favorite sport accumulates that much money and goes off and purchases land,food, and does studies to bring a now non-exsistant species back to land it once was abundent it usually Drops Them In Their Tracks (pardon the punn). Good Hunting/Fishing and Protect your Sport, Guy
105.2	Why I hunt	CSC32::HAGERTY	Veni,Vedi,$cmkrnli,rebooti	`Sat Dec 26 1987 18:59`	17
	Meat on the table is the reason that many people hunt, me included. My reasons are (in order) 1) Meat on the table 1.001 <i.e. running a very close 2nd> ) I only hunt with people I like. I like going out in the woods and trading stories (swapping lies?) with people that share a common interest. Some best memories I have were forged with a gun in my hand. Personal side note : Mark, I now keep 2 sets of keys with me when I hunt :-). 2) Game management. I don't mind one bit that my money is being used to make sure that there will be game there next year. Dave()
105.3	LETS TALK MORALS!	KAOO01::COUTTS		`Fri Sep 22 1989 17:28`	20
	Periodically I have found myself discussing the virtues and morals of Hunting with people who condem the activity. I always seemed to be on the defense until one day I decided to really give it some serious thought. I concluded that people who ate Meat or Poultry of any kind where indeed doing the same thing as the hunter. Or were they? Actually they were doing it a little bit different. That is, they weren't pulling the trigger (yes they were, they were paying the butcher). There was another thing which they were doing, they were killing an animal in its pen (or close to it). To top it all off, they only payed a few dollars for the meat! I pay for my time off, my guns, ammo and gear. I also pay in Blood Sweat and Tears! Blood when a branch whips my face and cuts me, Sweat from the arduous walk over rough terrain and tears when I come back empty handed! I decided that I going to take the offensive when speaking to anti-hunters. I'm going to start start kicking some butt for the terrible things they are doing.!! Shame shame on them! (: DUNCAN OTTAWA, CANADA
105.4	Hunting - Taking the high road...	ALFA2::ALFA2::FALVELLA		`Mon Jan 29 1996 14:35`	23
	"Hunting in my experience - and by hunting I simply mean being out on the land - is a state of mind. All of one's faculties are brought to bear in an effort to become fully incorporated into the landscape. It is more than listening for animals or watching for hoofprints or a shift in the weather. It is more than an analysis of what one senses. To hunt means to have the land around you like clothing. To engage in a wordless dialogue with it, one so absorbing that you cease to talk with your human companions. It means to release yourself from rational images of what something "means" and to be concerned only that it "is". And then to recognize that things exist only insofar as they can be related to other things. These relationships - fresh drops of moisture on top of rocks at a river crossing and a raven's distant voice - become patterns. The patterns are always in motion. Suddenly the pattern - which includes physical hunger, a memory of your family, and memories of the valley you are walking through, these particular plants and smells - takes in the caribou. There is a caribou standing in front of you. The release of the arrow or bullet is like a word spoken out loud. It occurs at the periphery of your concentration." [pp.199-200] Barry Lopez. 1989. "Arctic Dreams: Imagination and Desire in a Northern Landscape". Bantam Books, New York.