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Rip Van Winkle’s Crow Killing Contest

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I won’t pick a fight with hunters, as long as they eat what they shoot and don’t use lead ammunition. Look at the Maryland-based website Crow Busters , although I warn you you’ll need a strong stomach for the photographs. One hopes this is the direction in which all killing contests are headed. I am not anti-hunting.

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The North American Model of Wildlife Conservation and Who Pays for It

10,000 Birds

The system was intended as a hunter-centric model, both guided by and benefitting consumptive interests. Thomas Serfass, a professor at Maryland’s Frostburg State University says, “I would describe the North American Model as incomplete. New Ideas In Conservation. Consumptive & Non-consumptive Users.

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