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FIGHTING OFF THE BAMBI FACTOR
shootstright
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Your Gun right are in jeopardy from the bureaucrats
that run your state. Unelected and unaccountable ,
and you can't fire them.[8D]
FIGHTING OFF THE BAMBI FACTOR . . Some reports estimate that nearly half of all employees of state conservation agencies, including more than 75 percent of those in leadership positions, will retire in the next 10 years. Unfortunately, many incoming replacements-mostly new college graduates-seem to lack an appreciation of hunting and its historic ties to conservation. That's why the Wildlife Management Institute (WMI) and the McGraw Wildlife Foundation initiated a program for nonhunting students in natural resource disciplines at the University of Wisconsin and Penn State. The program involves four-day workshops at the Foundation in Dundee, Ill. It includes sessions on ethics, the biological basis of hunting, who hunts and why, and hunting and conservation. Students learn about and handle hunting firearms and archery equipment, and are mentored in target shooting and hunting. Other field exercises include dog handling, and cleaning and cooking game. WMI president Steve Williams said, "Our executive vice president, Dick McCabe, has developed and shepherded this pilot program, whose opportunities are bounded only by resources. It is extremely important for the future of wildlife management, hunting and the hunting industry."
that run your state. Unelected and unaccountable ,
and you can't fire them.[8D]
FIGHTING OFF THE BAMBI FACTOR . . Some reports estimate that nearly half of all employees of state conservation agencies, including more than 75 percent of those in leadership positions, will retire in the next 10 years. Unfortunately, many incoming replacements-mostly new college graduates-seem to lack an appreciation of hunting and its historic ties to conservation. That's why the Wildlife Management Institute (WMI) and the McGraw Wildlife Foundation initiated a program for nonhunting students in natural resource disciplines at the University of Wisconsin and Penn State. The program involves four-day workshops at the Foundation in Dundee, Ill. It includes sessions on ethics, the biological basis of hunting, who hunts and why, and hunting and conservation. Students learn about and handle hunting firearms and archery equipment, and are mentored in target shooting and hunting. Other field exercises include dog handling, and cleaning and cooking game. WMI president Steve Williams said, "Our executive vice president, Dick McCabe, has developed and shepherded this pilot program, whose opportunities are bounded only by resources. It is extremely important for the future of wildlife management, hunting and the hunting industry."
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I clearly understand that hunters and conservation paid for by hunters is the only reason we have an abundance of healthy game animals. One only need look at the the over populated animals that can be found in the vast Cook County Forset preserve system outside of Chicago to see the failure of anti-hunting zealots on the fragile ballance of nature. We need to place a bounty on PETA members.
Let's examine that statement. There was a time when an experienced hunter and outdoorsman was well qualified to be a game warden or ranger. Now it is a requirement that these positions have a 4-year college degree. How does the state expect to find experienced hunters and outdoorsmen when they are requiring applicants to sit in a classroom for four years?
I am an advocate of education, but there is a trend today of valuing education over practical experience. I think this is the root of the problem.
-Wolf
Hear hear!!!
No bag limit!!!
I Disagree with the points you made here, but I can understand why you made them.
Are we to assume that BOTH sides are wrong ?
As long as they publish sabotage manuals, spike trees, firebomb buildings, and set up traps meant to injure or kill hunters, as well as shooting hunters, death to them all!!!!