Letter: Most hunters are also avid conservationists
Letter: Most hunters are also avid conservationists
Date: Jul 9, 2005 11:21 AM
PUBLICATION: The Windsor Star
DATE: 2005.07.09
EDITION: Final
SECTION: Editorial/Opinion
PAGE: A9
BYLINE: Tracey Kleim
SOURCE: Windsor Star
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Most hunters are also avid conservationists
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In response to the letter Hunting For Pleasure Subverts Natural Selection, June
28: I have to say that B. Rawles’ view just reeks of shallow-mindedness. I am a
huntress and I try to take my animals as humanely as possible.
During the hunting season, I try and get as much table food as possible to save
money and to eat healthy meat.
I may not hunt to survive, but I certainly do not hunt to put a head up on my wall,
or for pleasure. Going out in the cold to get food for your table may sound pleasurable
to B. Rawles, but I have to say that it’s pretty darn cold.
Lugging a 150-to-200-pound deer out of a valley and putting it on the back of a
truck when you’re a woman is probably one of the hardest jobs one will ever do.
What B. Rawles doesn’t seem to understand is that most hunters are conservationists.
I belong to the South Saskatchewan Wildlife Association which stocks ponds with
fish and the prairies with pheasants.
We donate our money and time to help the Burrowing Owl, which is almost extinct,
among numerous other things.
I am the secretary of this association. I spend my time trying to help nature.
You say that hunting is headed straight for extinction because it is not compatible
with modern, civilized values?
I am sick and tired of people trying to take away my heritage and culture because
they don’t understand my way of life.
Tracey Kleim
Canadian Director
Women Against Gun Control
Moose Jaw, Sask.