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already done over here!
Posted by Byron_Lamb on Oct 19 2005
Greetings Dave,
From your post I can tell we are closely aligned with our prespective on rutting Caribou and conservation issues in general.
Over here in my little area of the world (GMU 17) we closed Caribou season for bulls, DURING THE RUTT, just for the reason you explained!
As sportsmen we have a responsibility to pass our heritage to the next generation. We also live daily with a huge task of doing the right thing, we MUST have a firm & realist conservation plan in place. As a professional guide/outfitter I have dedicated a good part of my life to the conservation of our land, water, air, and the various critters that live here.
Doing the right thing, call it ethic's if you want, is a personal choice. I live by self-imposed limits and guidlines that I feel is best for me and those people who come on a hunting trip with our operation.
There are a couple of issues that wind my clock like no others;
1) reckless people coming into another persons hunting area with total disregard and dis-respect,
2) folks that don't make the right choices when hunting in regards to wildlife/wild-lands conservation.
In my humble opinion there are already way to many rules & regulations on the books, some of which can not be enforced. I don't think more rules are the answer, might help in the short term. I think the long term solution is education. Specifically, as sportsmen, we need to do a better job at educated folks on conservation issues.
For example; do you remeber many years ago when it was acceptable to catch and then eat a wild Rainbow Trout? Of course. Now days alomst everyone practices catch & relase.
Even though we are consumptive users this same mind set can apply. Each person makes personal choices of when, where, and how to harvest, some critter, or not. The same choices are made over and over again in different circumstances. This type of "self-imposed" limits and responsibility has worked for wild trout through education, I think it can work for hunters also.
Good Hunting...>Byron Lamb
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