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October 1, 1975
The hunters of America are being hunted
by J. L. Biesecker
As we move into another
fall hunting season most of
us hunters anxiously plan _
and prepare to participate as
we have for many genera-
tions. However, there are
signs that this will not be the
case in the future. Hunting,
as a sport, may not survive
for another generation. In-
creasingly strong attacks are
being made on hunters and
hunting by- anti-hunting
groups. We hunters have
contributed ammunition to
the attack.
Some hunters rob from
nature; they are guilty of the
excess portrayed in the
recent television show ‘“The
Guns of Autumn’. There
are greedy hunters, there
are ignorant hunters, there
are outlaw hunters. These
are the people who commit-
ted the atrocities filmed for
the anti-hunting show.
We cannot deny that the
atrocities exist; we saw
them in living color on CBS.
The images developed in
that show will be remem-
bered by the non-hunting
public, unless we convince
them otherwise. We can tell
people of the conservation
efforts of hunters such as
George Bird Grinnell, Theo-
dore Roosevelt, Gifford Pin-
chot, Aldo Leopold and
many lesser known or
unknown hunters who have
spent much time, effort and
money preserving wild life
and wild life habitat. How-
ever, all the names, ex-
amples, facts and statistics
you share will have little
impact upon the non-hunt-
ing public if you do not set a
personal example.
Each hunting season
some of us out-law a little.
We kill more than the bag
limit, kill a hen bird, tres-
pass, shoot too close to a
building, let a gate open,
shoot a pet cat or carry out
some other small act that is
noticed and remembered.
These are the acts that will
aid the continued growth of
anti-hunting pressure that
will end hunting.
One land developer with a
bulldozer can drain a swamp
and prevent the hatching of
many thousands of ducks in
the future yet not be
perceived by the non-hunt-
ing public as a cause in the
decline of the duck popula-
tion. However, the man who
shoots more than the legal
limit will be seen as a major
factor in the decline of the
number of ducks.
If your sport is to survive,
we must act to ensure that it
does. This cannot be done
by sloshing into the local bar
in muddy boots, blood
stained pants and with a
loud exaggerated story,
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reveal the gory details of
abuse of the land, animals
and laws.
People need to hear of our
respect for the animals.
They need to know that the
respect comes through
knowledge and understand-
ing. The hunters love of
being outdoors and the
pleasures of nature must be
shared. We need to be seen
as outdoorsmen, not just
“hunters’’.
The non-hunter can be
helped to see that our sport
is more than killing cute
bears and innocent deer. I
believe that the non-hunting
person has trouble seeing
beyond the killing aspect of
hunting. As our population
becomes more urban, a
decreasing percentage of
people have direct and
continued contact with the
natural world. Increasingly,
the urban world experiences
vicariously through televi-
sion, movies and books.
They lack the direct contact
with nature that is necessary
to the development of a
thorough understanding and
respect.
Too often, the urban
person has not been assis-
tant mid-wife to a dog at age
four, fish catcher at age five,
helper at fall butchering at
age six, planter of seeds,
harvester of the crops that
are living things. Beans,
tomatoes, carrots, chickens,
pigs, cows, rabbits, deer
and fish are living things
that we harvest, we kill, in
order to live. All of mankind
kills, kills continually, di-
rectly or indirectly in order
to live.
Outdoorsmen and rural
people experience death and
killing directly, while the
urbanite experiences it only
indirectly, vicariously,
through a T.V. cowboy, a
sensational newspaper story
or a butcher in the meat
packing slaughter house.
Since direct, close personal
contact with death is not a
part of their experience, the
urbanite gets hung up there,
AOctober. 3. This, is
failing to understand more
about hunting than its
killing aspects. This limita-
tion magnifies the weaknes-
ses and shortcomings a-
mong hunters as we go
afield and also makes
possible the anti-hunting
propaganda.
We need to watch care-
fully every move we make as
hunters. Each of us has
some impact on the possibi-
he
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Maytown Jaycees
The Maytown Jaycees will
hold their next meeting on
October 1 at 8:00 at the
Legion in Maytown. All
members are asked to come
Maytown
by Barbara Roaten
Maytown Boy Scouts will
hold a bake sale and paper
drive on Saturday, October
18. The bake sale will be
Boy
lity of the future of hunting.
We cannot afford to violate
game laws and carry out
acts that continue to reflect
hunting in a bad light. Each
hunter can educate the
non-hunter around him only
by developing his own
knowledge and by setting an
example. Through our care:
ful, diligent efforts the spor
may have a chance o:
surviving for another gener-
ation.
meet
and anyone who is interest-
ed is also welcome at the
meeting.
The Jaycees welcome any
support you might give.
Scouts
held in front of Shank’s
Store in Maytown Square,
beginning at 8:00 a.m.
This will be the last paper
drive, as the Boy Scouts are
diseontinuing this project.
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concert at the Music Pier in
Ocean City, N.J., on Friday,
the 0
second year in a row that the
Concert Band has been
invited to play at the famed
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