[Newsbot]

Title: Too many grizzlies killed in B.C. trophy hunt: report
Category: Environmental
Posted By: Hyack
Date: 2010-04-01 10:27:50
Canadian

[GreenTiger]

Hunt terrorists not grizzlies.

[BartSimpson]

$1:

British Columbia's controversial annual grizzly bear hunt leaves more of the animals dead than even the province's own wildlife guidelines allow, claims a new report to be released Thursday by the David Suzuki Foundation that once again calls on the government to curb the trophy hunt.

And according to the same bunch of a$$holes the Arctic was supposed to be ice-free last year.

[Hyack]

IMO the only restrictions to hunting Griz should be the choice of firearms. Trophy hunters should be allowed to use only a Black powder rifle and a Bowie Knife, it is afterall a sport. It's just time to even out the playing field. Let the games begin...

[wildrosegirl]

I disagree with trophy hunting, period. If you're going to kill an animal, it should be to fill your freezer. With the exception, of course, of the situations where the animal is trying to eat you, and then I'm okay with poppin' it.

Trophy hunting is a waste of an animal.

[Strutz]

wildrosegirl wildrosegirl:

I disagree with trophy hunting, period. If you're going to kill an animal, it should be to fill your freezer. With the exception, of course, of the situations where the animal is trying to eat you, and then I'm okay with poppin' it.

Trophy hunting is a waste of an animal.

Totally agree!

[Hyack]

wildrosegirl wildrosegirl:

I disagree with trophy hunting, period. If you're going to kill an animal, it should be to fill your freezer. With the exception, of course, of the situations where the animal is trying to eat you, and then I'm okay with poppin' it.

Trophy hunting is a waste of an animal.

I guess I should have been a bit more succinct, I also think Trophy hunting is a crock, but it is going to happen as it is good for the economy..... So with hunting Griz, the use of the weapons I mentioned would at least keep it more of "sport"...... How gutsy are you going to be hunting Griz in deep cover with a single shot firearm......

[wildrosegirl]

Hyack Hyack:

wildrosegirl wildrosegirl:

I disagree with trophy hunting, period. If you're going to kill an animal, it should be to fill your freezer. With the exception, of course, of the situations where the animal is trying to eat you, and then I'm okay with poppin' it.

Trophy hunting is a waste of an animal.

I guess I should have been a bit more succinct, I also think Trophy hunting is a crock, but it is going to happen as it is good for the economy..... So with hunting Griz, the use of the weapons I mentioned would at least keep it more of "sport"...... How gutsy are you going to be hunting Griz in deep cover with a single shot firearm......

Oh no worries - I was clear on where you were coming from with it, and it's a good angle.

I just had to put my two cents in regarding the other aspect (you know, woman and all... )

[QBC]

As much as I am a hunter and enjoy it very much. That is one critter I have never had the desire to hunt. One, too big, too mean and is the true measure of hunting dangerous game. Second, you can't eat Grizzle, unlike their Black Bear cousins. Unless a Griz is bothering you or your livestock, or by chance the population was to increase to the point that it's a problem, leave em alone. They are way too beautiful and majestic to just for a tourist to kill and hang on a wall in another country.

[BartSimpson]

QBC QBC:

As much as I am a hunter and enjoy it very much. That is one critter I have never had the desire to hunt. One, too big, too mean and is the true measure of hunting dangerous game. Second, you can't eat Grizzle, unlike their Black Bear cousins. Unless a Griz is bothering you or your livestock, or by chance the population was to increase to the point that it's a problem, leave em alone. They are way too beautiful and majestic to just for a tourist to kill and hang on a wall in another country.

Much the same was said of mountain lions in California.

Used to be you paid $850 for a tag and then you went out to hunt a mountain lion and the benefit was that the lion population was kept in control, the remaining lions stayed in the wild, and the state got some serious revenue to use for preserving other species.

Then a bunch of animal rights freaks sold California on banning lion hunting because hunters were enjoying themselves during the hunts.

So now the state pays designated hunters a salary to 'take' lions who pester game and who, due to overpopulation, are now extending their ranges into cities and suburbs. But I'm sure the hunters who now get paid to do this don't 'enjoy' it.

[2Cdo]

Barts post reminded me of an incident years ago in Ontario during the bob Rae reign of idiocy.

In Pelee Park, where humting is banned, the deer population exploded and naturally started to devastate the local fauna. The park is known for having an ecosystem that only exists in the park, nowhere else in Canada. The government was implored by people to do something to protect both the deer and the park and three proposals were put forth.

1. Hunters proposed a cull with half the proceeds from tag sales being donated to food banks.

2. The natives in the area offered to cull the herds and the meat would go to help feed people on the reserve or be donated to any food bank that would accept it.

3. The government could hire people to go in and do the cull, while paying them, and the meat would be destroyed.

Anyone care to guess which proposal the Rae administration used?

I might add that the overpopulation was so bad that the first winter saw a substantial number of deer die of starvation.