It's not just our governments who are mismanaging the resources. It's many of YOU legal, law abiding hunters acting within the rights granted to you via your hunting license.
How many thousands of dollars of gear and hundreds of hours of your time have you wasted searching out your game species?
Do you think that we all could be better off having invested most of that money into buying your own land or improving the land of a family mamber or close friend for wildlife? What about donating to a conservation organizations like your local wildlife fedaration or Ducks Unlimited or Nature Conservancy no matter how small the donation?
What about spending more of your time volunteering in conservation projects directly to acquire, protect and improve habitat needed for the game YOU shoot? Have you just been taking animals from the wild and not doing anything to increase their numbers and health?
Are you willing to pay more for tags and opportunities to hunt if this would ensure better investment in initiatives dedicated towards improving and acquiring habitat needed for wildlife even if sometimes you would not directly benefit?
Personally, I have spent thousands of times what one tag costs to ensure my hunting heritage is protected and I would spend this amount a hundred times over if I could. Would you?
I also never shoot the breeding stock and I avoid shooting immature males that have not had time to reach ###ual maturity.
When populations are low of one species in a particular area I seek out areas that have healthy populations rather than shoot a buck in an area with a low density or compromised population.
And when things get really bad I might not hunt for that species at all. I just enjoy seeing them living rather than dead.
If need be, would you help wildlife through a bad winter with deep snow with supplemental feeding to keep them from starving? What about late season food plots to make sure they have the most nutritious feed going into the long, cold winter?
All these actions are things that YOU can do directly to manage wildlife. You don't need a government to tell you it's legal or illegal to do so. YOU know it's the right thing to do because it will be contributing to the long term sustainability of wildlife into the future, which will ensure YOU and others like you have opportunities to harvest, consume, and enjoy wildlife into perpetuity.
So lets hear about YOUR wildlife success stories.
What have YOU done for wildlife recently besides kill it??
How many thousands of dollars of gear and hundreds of hours of your time have you wasted searching out your game species?
Do you think that we all could be better off having invested most of that money into buying your own land or improving the land of a family mamber or close friend for wildlife? What about donating to a conservation organizations like your local wildlife fedaration or Ducks Unlimited or Nature Conservancy no matter how small the donation?
What about spending more of your time volunteering in conservation projects directly to acquire, protect and improve habitat needed for the game YOU shoot? Have you just been taking animals from the wild and not doing anything to increase their numbers and health?
Are you willing to pay more for tags and opportunities to hunt if this would ensure better investment in initiatives dedicated towards improving and acquiring habitat needed for wildlife even if sometimes you would not directly benefit?
Personally, I have spent thousands of times what one tag costs to ensure my hunting heritage is protected and I would spend this amount a hundred times over if I could. Would you?
I also never shoot the breeding stock and I avoid shooting immature males that have not had time to reach ###ual maturity.
When populations are low of one species in a particular area I seek out areas that have healthy populations rather than shoot a buck in an area with a low density or compromised population.
And when things get really bad I might not hunt for that species at all. I just enjoy seeing them living rather than dead.
If need be, would you help wildlife through a bad winter with deep snow with supplemental feeding to keep them from starving? What about late season food plots to make sure they have the most nutritious feed going into the long, cold winter?
All these actions are things that YOU can do directly to manage wildlife. You don't need a government to tell you it's legal or illegal to do so. YOU know it's the right thing to do because it will be contributing to the long term sustainability of wildlife into the future, which will ensure YOU and others like you have opportunities to harvest, consume, and enjoy wildlife into perpetuity.
So lets hear about YOUR wildlife success stories.
What have YOU done for wildlife recently besides kill it??
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