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Good point
Posted by bushrat on Nov 08 2005
Good point, Patrick. I think the line they draw is pretty broad. But within reason. They aren't against atv use, for example, across the board, but they sure are against atv abuse.
I guess my problem with some technology is this: A gps is a dandy piece of equipment that can and will save your bacon in the field, but it's come to take the place of a knowledge never even learned to begin with; how to tell where you are and how the hell to get back. (You see the same with newer pilots these days; they have no dead-reckoning or map-reading skills.) I suppose when a compass first came out that it was considered technology, and some old geezers lamented the same scenario I describe above. "Aw shucks, who needs one a them thar north-pointing-needle devices, anyway. My grandpappy and my daddy and me been all over this country without one a those. It will make everyone soft." The "line" on technology is impossible to draw, really. But as more and more techno gadgets appear, more and more outdoors-oriented people suck them up it seems. And before long, somebody's kid here knows hunting, but what he knows about hunting is that they always used a gps, a sat-phone, a range-finder, a water filter, expensive optics, a six-man tracked vehicle that was also a boat, etc. I think that is somewhat scary to some of us...the entire "feel" of the hunt gets changed. It's no longer us being out in nature on her terms, necessarily, but us conquering nature on our terms. How much ease and advantage do we need? How much is too much? Everyone will answer differently. One org espouses this, the other espouses that. Very few espouse the same things that Backcountry Hunters and Anglers do because it's a "green" approach and because it actually does seek to draw a line, or at least get the notion out there that there may be a line.
Best, Mark
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