10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 17, 2014
The system was intended as a hunter-centric model, both guided by and benefitting consumptive interests. Given that few hunters actually consume coyotes, wolves, cougars, and except for a few individuals, even bears, it is obviously a “waste” of wildlife to shoot or trap these animals just for “fun” 2.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 14, 2018
Eventually, the name came to be attached to another kind of game hunting device with which we’re more familiar today: life-sized wooden carvings of waterfowl floated on water to fool birds into landing within range of nearby hunters lying in wait. It’s also the name of a line of wines produced by Duckhorn Vineyards of St.
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Critter News
AUGUST 16, 2008
Hunters would then pay to hunt in the pens. He was caught after a yearlong investigation by Virginia game officials that included the undercover purchases of 54 red foxes and 47 coyotes from Blevins. Tags: wildlife trafficking blood sport fox hunting us. Often they were injured.
4 The Love Of Animals
MARCH 3, 2010
I’m an author, good character names are fair game) joined the family and something rather miraculous happened. My second favorite rescue story is that of Hunter, a beagle-ish dog that my daughter and son-in-law adopted from a shelter in Massachusetts. Tags: books guest post. Fast forward seven years. Sasha learned to purr.
Animal Person
MARCH 29, 2010
Hunters kill members of endangered species. Would intelligent beings riot over the out come of a soccer game? Tags: Books Ethics Language. Whenever the media report that someone has killed "an endangered animal" or "an endangered species," they too confuse an individual with a species. To be consistent (and nonspeciesist).
Critter News
FEBRUARY 23, 2009
Estimates of predator populations by State fish and game officials indicate that the number of predators removed by WS is small compared with overall predator numbers. This amount is considerably less than the number of animals taken by hunters and trappers annually. Tags: fish and wildlife USDA.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 14, 2011
Nationwide, wildlife watchers now outspend hunters 6 to 1. Giving a few hundred hunters something else to shoot, in my opinion, cannot be worth the blowback from tens of thousands of people who are willing to travel and spend just to watch the birds fly over. Sandhill Hunt: They’re Voting Now Sandhill Cranes: Game Birds?
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