(this email things works a lot better if you hit send...)
   
  Too true, better conservation of habitat is a much better over all, long term plan, (hey, I work for a big conservation group so...) but sportsmen are a large and key player in the overall conservation effort - their support is really needed. After all if there is no habitat left, there is nowhere and nothing to hunt...pathetic I know and no excuse.  By and large I am of the opinion (flame guard at the ready...) that we chased all the elk, deer, moose, etc. off the plains etc. so we could grow our cows, eat the darn cows BUT since I am not queen of the universe...
   
  I think managed (note the 'managed') hunting helps balance out the inbalances we've created by destroying habitat and chasing/killing larger predators like wolves, bears, and mountain lions out of our way - I think they (wolves bears, mountains lions) are a more effective population check than Jeeps, Denalis, and Buicks... 
   
  Cat Reid
  Rose Haven - Southern Anne Arundel Co

Fred Fallon <> wrote:
  Yes, but that doesn't mean the answer is to increase the number of 
hunters; the answer is to fund the expansion of habitat by some 
mechanism that would work better in today's world. This reminds me of 
the myth that some people can't get health insurance *because* their 
employer doesn't provide it - just because that's the way it's always 
been done.

Marko, Thomas L. GS BUMED wrote:

>It's ironic that the ducks on the bay are out there because of waterfowl
>hunters. There are concerns that the current decline in the number of
>licensed hunters (and anglers) will result in subsequent decreases in
>revenue, which enable waterfowl conservation and habitat preservation and
>expansion. Managed hunting, in my humble opinion, benefits all natural
>resource stakeholders.
>
>Tom Marko
>Olney, MD
>Montgomery Bird Club
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>
>Cat Reid wrote: "When will my mornings stop being punctuated by hunters
>blasting the ducks or whatever it is they are shooting out there in the bay?
>It sounds like "Masters and Commanders" out there lately."
>
> 
>

-- 
Fred Fallon
PG Coordinator, MD-DC Breeding Bird Atlas
Bowie MD



 
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