Why Hunt?
The reasons people hunt are just as varied as the millions of people
who participate. Whether for companionship or solitude, to commune
or participate with nature, the challenge or tradition, or perhaps
just a fondness for wild meat, hunting remains, as it always should,
a personal choice.
"In a civilized and cultivated country, wild animals only continue
to exist when preserved by sportsmen."
- President Theodore Roosevelt
"The point is that ... Americans like to hunt and fish, that hunting
fever is endemic in the race, and that the race is benefited by any
incentive to get out into the open, and is being injured by the destruction
of the incentive in this case. To combat this destruction is therefore
a social issue."
- Aldo Leopold
- Premier Conservationist and Father
of Wildlife Management
The Importance of Hunter Ethics
All sportsmen and women have a responsibility to other hunters and
landowners, the public, wildlife, and above all, to themselves. It
is essential that all hunters abide by a code of ethics. |
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