Hi Jaz,
I’m a few days late to this topic (haven’t been on FR), but here’s a good read:
http://vault.sportsillustrated.cnn.com:80/vault/article/magazine/MAG1148866/index.htm
Thanks so much for the link, Girl.
That is a very good article on hunting or I should say dwindling hunting. I believe therein lies many of the reasons for the ever increasing encounters of predators (coyotes, bears and cougars) with humans and their livestock and pets in even populated areas.
It’s an article that all animal rights activists and the anti hunting crowd should read and take heed, they could find themselves or their much loved pets as the prey one of these fine days.
Geist has thought about that subject a lot.
Until recently, he says, “I was very much of the opinion that wolves were a fairly harmless group of predators.” But then the wolf population exploded.
“When I walk my dog now [on Vancouver Island, B.C.], I carry a gun,” he says. “My wife has been threatened by wolves twice.”