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my .02
Posted by homerdave on Dec 21 2005
bison- extirpated by MARKET hunting, along with the settlement plan that called for forcing the natives to move or starve.
beaver- trapped out large portion of thier range for MONEY to make felt hats for the rich europeans.
mammoth(?)- jury is still out, unfair advantage could have played into this one <grin> running herds off cliffs is probably not B&C fair chase.
pigeon...not the city park kind, right?..passenger pigeon- depended on HUGE tracts of mast producing hardwoods in the east to support thier nesting strategy. logging and habitat destruction, combined with MARKET hunting resulted in extinction.
deer, turkey, and bear (in the east) primarily fell to the same factors that took the passenger pigeon.
to a certain extent it is arguable that the depression helped to keep deer populations down in big parts of the heartland. is that "subsistence" hunting, or would it be considered an economic factor?
bears, lions, wolves...all victims of habitat encroachment and development, hand in hand with government-sponsored wholesale eradication programs.
i am not going to argue about the states current subsistence hunter definitions, i do think they suck.
how about the fact that joe serviceman or oil company employee can be here a year, become a "resident" (even though he will be stationed elsewhere in the foreseeable future) and then bring his brothers, in-laws, dad and mom's new husband up here to hunt sheep and goat and moose and brown bear? is that fair?
if we are not able to quell the sheer numbers of folks coming to hunt up here we are headed for permit-only big game hunts in most of the state, and probably guide requirements for all non-resident big-game hunters...not because of the money, but because it is a management tool to control demand.
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