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Trophy hunting . Managing for trophys like many people on this sight try to do they want/think they should shoot a trophy on public land every year . People need to relax and just enjoy being in the outdoors
Meat hunting and opportunity at all costs. Forgoing management based on age classes and available range and replacing those ideas with ones that say elk are managed the way less than 100 politically connected ‘ranching’ families want them to be, while also ensuring that the holier than thou ‘meat hunter’ continues to exercise his God given right to shoot a two point rutting muley off the road and 5 does. Also two elk, including one on February 15th. The opportunity advocate will do this while telling you he’s morally superior to you for holding out for a single mature animal during the general season.
It’s the opportunity advocate that makes it hard to defend hunting with a straight face to unknowledgeable non hunters. How do we defend ‘hunting is conservation’ if they ever get smart enough to reply with ‘well what about ....’ everything I just named above.
1.) Climate change
2.) Politicians of either persuasion who want to micromanage everything from who gets what tag to funding our agencies for land mgt & wildlife conservation.
3.) Hunters
4.) Anti-hunters
5.) Over-development
Right at the moment...
1. Political meddling in GF issues.
2. People thinking they're special and deserve their own set aside of licenses.
3. Habitat (like who controls the land the habitat is on, how to improve it, etc. etc.).
4. Climate change
5. Lack of over-all hunter knowledge regarding just about everything to do with land management, wildlife management, and the distinction between the two and what agencies can and cant do.
6. Hunter apathy for not getting involved, not writing letters, not being part of the process.
7. Access and keeping it/improving it.
8. Poaching.
9. Commercialization of hunting and its impact on management, diversity, etc. in the Sport.
...the list goes on and on and on.
According to most State Legislators, we have lots of problems if we judge it by the number of bills they introduce each year trying "fix" them.