I think it is a sad state of affairs when the people who pay for
conservation are the hunters and the fishermen, and the people who do not
pay are the rest. I think that if conservation is ever really going to
happen, people need to learn how to live WITH nature. There are many
species that will
Wendee (The only reason I changed the subject line is because of my
filing system; feel free to change it back):
Wl, I think one has to be careful about cases. Personally, I
find it repugnant to hunt for any reason other than food, and I would
never suggest hunting as a means of fund raisi
This is a really interesting point. I wrote an article about Louisiana black
bears about a year ago, a threatened subspecies of American black bear. I
spent a week in the field while biologists relocated bear mommas and cubs to
a different habitat in efforts to expand their range. One comment by on