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To: IceShark who wrote (38780)	11/18/2000 10:42:53 AM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 436258

It's one of those facts of life, Ice. Many conservationists, particularly early conservationists, are, or were, hunters. And I think that will always be the case. Man has upset the balance of nature by killing off the big carnivores, so hunters are needed around here, Northern Virginia, to keep the deer population down. I guess hunters are becoming part of the ecosystem. People just don't like having wolves and bears and big cats in their neighborhoods.

To: IceShark who wrote (38780)	11/18/2000 2:20:48 PM
From: Oblomov	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 436258

A quote taken at random from my 1910 edition of African Game Trails, by Theodore Roosevelt: I rode at an angle to the giraffe's line of flight, thus gaining considerably; and when it finally turned and went straight away I followed it at a fast run, and before it was fully awake to the danger I was but a hundred yards behind. We were now getting into bad country, and jumping off I opened fire and crippled the great beast. Mounting, I overtook it again in a quarter of a mile and killed it. In half an hour the skinners and porters came up- one of the troubles of hunting as a naturalist is that it necessitates the presence of a long tail of men to take off and carry in the big skins, in order that they may ultimately appear in museums. This quote alone would make him an enemy of today's naturalists. But substitute "bear" for TR and "clown" for giraffe, and you have a nice little synopsis of the last 8 months in market activity. -g-