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Check out this story in National Geograpic.

Photographs:
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/2007-11/hunters/allard-photography.html

Text:
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/2007-11/hunters/poole-text.html

Hunting in Missouri is alive and well.
The traditions and heritage have held fast.

Those are some beautiful photos to be sure.

thanks,
Brent

Most people don't have a clue as to all the benefits that hunting and hunters do for the enviroment, their only exposure to hunters is through the movie Bambi they saw as a kid!!
All the best

Maybe in Pittsburg. Frankly, I've heard that sad whiny song since I was first teaching my dad to hunt 40+ yrs ago. Doesn't sound any better today.

I'd say that sometimes hunters get credit that they deserve, sometimes they don't. That's life.

Brent

A US survey of sportsmen some years ago indicated that the majority of hunters are slobs. In my own region, I am not aware that their sense of stewardship of the environment, on public lands or their own, is something to write home about.

I acknowledge the good work of Ducks Unlimited, and of other organizations improving wildlife habitat, but my view, perhaps too cynical, is that it seems too much like put- and-take. We grow them to shoot them, it seems.

I do know that hunters generally are not held in high esteem. Anyone with a deer on a car is considered gauche. No one shows neighbours a bag of birds unless they're sympathetic and there are no kids around.

I'm an old hunter and don't apologize or equivocate, knowing there will be an end to hunting as we know it in our time. The slide has been going on for years, and the growing interest in shooting at clay things is symptomatic of the trend.

I wish I could be positive in answering your question.

Not to make class distinctions, but I spend a lot of time in the fall hunting bear and boar and it just so happens that many of the folks I hunt with are blue collar guys that I absolutely love to be around, most of the time. Generally speaking, most of them don't care one bit about the environment in which they cherish and long to spend time in. I am also an avid hiker and general woodsman and when I come across trash in the off season it infuriates me. In many cases that I have observed this type of hunter is directly where the bad name comes from and also where that damned trash comes from.

You weren't making class distinctions although I know we must be sensitive to these things on the board. Your experience is the same as mine. I flew into a small lake where Alexander Graham Bell had a fishing and hunting camp 100 years ago. Only the stone chimney was standing surrounded by trees. I doubt a dozen persons know it's there. This is wilderness in the Highlands of Nova Scotia, and from a camping spot along Bell Lake I collected eight large orange garbage bags of trash which I flew out in my little float plane in two trips. I left a note that I would report it to DNR if it continued. It was worse the next year. It's common everywhere. There's little respect for hunters and fishers because few admire what we do when we're out of sight.

My sentiments exactly.

King Brown,

Compare your seldom seen lake too the Boundry Waters Canoe Area where tens of thousands visit every year.

There is very little trash and most of it is at the camping sites.

I suspect the difference is the limits on the type of materials you can bring in and difficulty of getting there without motorized craft.

There are lots of fishermen but little trash.

RPr