A little off-topic but posted nonetheless:
Sierra Club is full of hunters. I used to be a member (quit for reasons unrelated to the issues here). I also know a Buffalo Field Campaign guy who wants bison treated like elk, with huntable, sustainable populations throughout their native range.
I think the green environmental community has a lot of hunters in their ranks. They are just "elitists" who want an arm's length of distance between them and those they perceive as sign-shooting, coal-rolling, muscle-truck-driving, quad-racing, snow-machine-riding, skull-crushing, dog-running, 50-bmg-sniping, spring mamma killers. They may be wrong in their perceptions but they don't always join what some of us think of as standard hunting groups for those reasons.
Also, most of the one's I've met hunt solo and they don't wear it on their sleeve at conventions and meetings. It's often only after a few cocktails (or yes, even a beer, believe it or not) around a fire that the hunting comes out. It's not shame or fear, just personal, like relationships. A big tent doesn't always sit well with loners. Doesn't mean they aren't out there hunting and supporting public lands in their own way.
Anywho, back to the regularly scheduled programming.
