Towards A Better Environmental Legacy

Wednesday, April 12, 2006

Any concerned hunters out there?

It amazes me that more hunters don't consider themselves environmentalists. Hunters and environmentalists basically have one major concern in common, protecting enough habitat to support a population of animals. Most all of the project sites I look at here in the southeast over 5 or 10 acres have at least one deer stand in them, and larger sites often have many. In fact, quite a few of the sites I have looked at recently are hunt club lands that have been sold for development. Simple supply and demand rules would suggest that the conversion of all these more accessible lands for hunting to suburbs must be squeezing the availability of relatively accessible land for deer, and therefore for hunters. The same is true for other outdoor land uses as well, such as horseback riding trails.

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