Hunters helped save rare bird from extinction

CNN.com ^ | Tuesday, December 13, 2005 | Reuters

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- A hunting lodge with antler chandeliers and stuffed ducks on the walls seems a strange place to celebrate the comeback of the ivory-billed woodpecker, but wildlife officials are doing exactly that.

They credit hunters in particular with helping bring the rare bird back from presumed extinction in the Big Woods section of Arkansas.

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So what have PETA, HSUS and the other anti-hunting organizations done that comes anywhere close to this kind of effort? Hunting and fishing generate huge revenues and hunters do more for wildlife concervation then a lot of anthropomorphizing meatiphobes.

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You know, only a total retard on the degree of a CNN reporter, or maybe a college professor could think that somehow hunters have a deleterious effect on the environment.

Here in Philadelphia, Fairmount Park (largest urban park in the U.S.) is less than a generation away from total destruction due to the over grazing of deer destroying successive generations of new growth.  Yet, everytime the Fairmount Park Commission wants to cull the herd, morons show up to protest with well thought out slogans like "Don't kill Bambi".  If it were up to me, I'd pay for a picket line of hunters to sweep through the park again and again dropping ever thing in their sight where it stood... protestors included.

Owl_Eagle

"You know, I'm going to start thanking
the woman who cleans the restroom in
the building I work in.  I'm going to start
thinking of her as a human being"

-Hillary Clinton

(Yes, she really said that

Peggy Noonan

The Case Against Hillary Clinton, pg 55)

[CollegeRepublican]

I love seeing woodpeckers when hunting. I regularly see pileated woodpeckers at one of my spots. Of course it would be cool to see an Ivory Billed or some other near extinct species, but I am afraid of the government coming onto my land and "protecting" the animals.

[pa_dweller]

Several years ago we did a day trip to Valley Forge (Federal park, no hunting). There were deer everywhere, in the middle of the day! There wasn't a one as big as a decent German Sherherd dog. Sad.