Re: Regulation changes
Originally Posted by
Fallkniven
This could well be true..why was this new reg change put in place, there wasn't a great issue(s) that stimulated it?....if you are feeling charitable, you might think the new reg change is there to differentiate Trophy hunts from Meat hunts and therefore strengthens the argument for keeping Cougar hunting, by saying that its a meat hunt and all edible parts are taken...however if you are of a more suspicious nature, you might think this is aimed at 're-evaluating' the ethic of cougar hunting....if there is evidence from the field that not all the meat is being taken (ie one or two prosecutions, or much more likely some photo's of Cougar carcasses with meat left on), then hunters are clearly hunting Cougars for trophy's not meat and therefore the hunt should be banned as with the grizzly....
I really hate when people jump on this cougar as a trophy hunt thing. Its a f'ing management hunt, yes people keep trophies but who cares. Its management of a species that needs to happen, it lawfully does happen, who are we to judge a fellow sportsmen if they want to keep a memento of that hunt. It's getting absurd. You call it trophy I call it necessary management of a species. And yes i do too think they went for Grizz first, now it will be cougar, black bears, wolves. They will come for the hound guys first because the non hounds guys will not care as "they aren't hurting my hunting" attitude comes into play. If we dont all stick together to protect all methods and game species as long as its being legally and ethically done we will be done for. We will suffer death of hunting by a thousand small cuts.
You can take the man out of the wilderness but you cant take the wilderness out of the man.