Letters to the Editor
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Tyler-Mason
You would be wrong about the backpacking thing. Now that I'm 60, I have slowed down some, but I still get in 2 long trips a year plus weekends. You can make all the weird assumptions you wish, but it doesn't change the fact that bear hunting with radio-collared dogs should get you jailed not praised.
If you love nature so much, why are you out there killing animals, especially predators. Wolves and mountain lions will gladly manage deer for you, but, oh yeah, you killed almost all of them.
Another thing. Working with hunters is an environmental necessity if one wants to achieve certain things, but hunters, in my experience, are very unwilling to do some very simple things that would make a difference. The guys in Ducks Unlimted, for example, were willing to work with us to put pressure on rice farmers, but they were totally unwilling to switch from lead shot to steel shot even though lead is extremely harmful to ducks. I don't see the environmentalism of hunters.
I acknowledge that there are responsible hunters, but none of them are trophy hunters.