From Aldo Leopolds great-grandson, Jed Meunier: When confronting the many moral dilemmas that hunting elicits, I often think of one of Walt Kelly’s cartoons of Pogo Possum from the first Earth Day in 1970. Standing over a garbage-strewn Okefenokee Swamp, Pogo states, we have met the enemy and he is us. Unfortunately, Pogo’s sentiment rings true for hunters. I would argue that hunters have inflicted far more damage on our hunting heritage than have anti-hunters. How, for example, can we preach—and even legally mandate—non-frivolous use of wildlife as a tenant of the North American Model of Wildlife Conservation, yet sell hunting licenses allowing the use of prairie dogs for target practice in our western states?
Posted on: Wed, 30 Jul 2014 18:39:17 +0000
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