The true hunter, the true lover of wilderness?

All really wild scenery is attractive. The true hunter, the true lover of wilderness, loves all parts of the wilderness, just as the true lover of nature loves all seasons. There is no season of the year when the country is not more attractive than the city; and there is no portion of the wilderness, where game is found, in which it is not a keen pleasure to hunt.- Theodore Roosevelt ';As a society, we strive toward greater closeness to the natural world and toward a fuller recognition of our ecological relationships. Yet the ...anti-hunting movement reflects an opposite trend - increased distance from the environment, diminished awareness of how we interact with it, and denial of basic biological processes.'; Animal right movement enemy of the environment page 229The true hunter, the true lover of wilderness?
a true hunter and person on the land is a true conservationist the animals rights and greenies are the enermy of the land as you need to hunt to control pest animals numbers and need controlled burn offs to keep the fuel for fires down and also cattle grazing australia has the worst fires on record in the last few years since controlled burns and cattle grazing has been banned in the high country and need to control feral animal species by hunting as i shoot 30,000 feral pigs alone and last count the parks and wild life gave up count after 23,000,000 feral pigs alone in one state so why not shoot the dangerous buggers and they are verry dangerous 30 people a year get attacked and killed by feral hogs and we need burn offs to control wild firesThe true hunter, the true lover of wilderness?
and alot of native animals are becoming extinct from feral animals so greenies and animal activists go out and see for yourselves how dangerous the bush can be then see if you still disagree i am a farmer and a hunter for a living

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Thanks for the shout-out. =)





I hope you cross paths with Dick Cheney while ';saving the wilderness';

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Well said. I hunt for total immersion in the wildereness. To be one with the animals but for a day. To be in touch with my primeval urge to chase. This is why though I hunt, I seldom shoot anything during any one hunt or many hunts because I am not there to kill, I am there to live.
I have nothing against hunting as long as it is for food and not just the fun of killing. I have known people who were so poor they would have gone hungry in the cold months without hunting (the reason people began eating meat in the first place...to survive winters in colder climates). I also have nothing against people who oppose hunting, provided they also oppose killing domesticated animals for food.





What I cannot tolerate are the big fat hypocrites who will say ';hunting is wrong'; while snacking on a Big Mac. There is no reasoning there...they are fine will killing animals as long as they didn't have to get off their fat butts and do it.
I'm not entirely sure what your question is. I am a true lover of the wilderness, but I don't hunt. I wouldn't feel comfortable doing it, and I don't think it's necessary to kill animals to be a wilderness lover. It's my moral belief that you should only hunt if you will die otherwise. I support native americans and other native peoples doing it, but I think that in america today, it is a waste. Growing something from the earth and consuming it connects you with nature more than killing an animal ever could.
Are you telling me that hunters never shoot at predators? I'm really going to believe that.





You believe that vegans are less likely to appreciate nature? You need to take your head out of your ***. Have you even met a vegetarian or vegan before.





The animals are not yours to shoot at. Just because you use the animals for food does not excuse the enjoyment you receive from their suffering.





If you are so appreciative and respectful of the environment you should be able to visit it without exploding gunpowder when you are there.......OR shooting sharp spikes through the air OR tricking fish into swallowing hooks OR freaking them out with nets or any kind of traps.





Thank you for sticking your nose where it does not belong.
I think a ';real'; or ';true'; hunter respects nature. Eats what they kill. never kill just to create a trophy. Avoid farm/reserves that pen in animals as so hunters can kill an animal without going in the forest.
Um, I never said I am into the wilderness, I am a vegetarian into animal welfare. You have no sense in your argument...sorry!