10,000 Birds

JUNE 17, 2015

The Service proposes opening the following refuges to sport fishing for the first time: North Dakota. Note in this 2010 video, birders, birdwatching and kayakers are mentioned, not hunters. Visitors are encouraged to wear hunter orange during hunting seasons for safety. www.youtube.com/watch?v=sk_5pt9OTLA. v=sk_5pt9OTLA.

Fish 143

Fish Wildlife Hunting Game 143

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

Nationwide, wildlife watchers now outspend hunters 6 to 1. Texas and North Dakota together account for 88% of the total yearly kill of sandhill cranes. I’ve received letters and emails from a number of avid hunters who find the concept of shooting cranes repugnant.

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2011 Kentucky Tennessee Hunting 243

Animal Ethics

JULY 15, 2009

And it does not call for an unregulated hunt; instead, it leaves full discretion to the National Park Service to set appropriate rules for the volunteer hunters who would help to thin the herd. Finally, you suggest that it would be less expensive to use “hired sharpshooters” than volunteer hunters. My proposal does no such thing.

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New York Times New York North Dakota Culling 40