Note: This article is a sidebar to this issue’s feature story, Unarmed but dangerous critics close in on hunting. I always edge away from the subject of hunting. I’ve hunted and shall hunt, but I don’t talk about it much – those late-night, throaty recitations of travels and kills make me nervous. It’s miserable standing […]
I like to hunt, but I don’t like to kill
Posted inDecember 11, 1995: Hunting: Its place in the West comes under attack
Organizations from ‘Get a gun’ to ‘No way’
Note: This article is a sidebar to this issue’s feature story, Unarmed but dangerous critics close in on hunting. Wildlife Legislative Fund of America: “Our sole purpose in life is to protect the right to hunt, fish and trap,” says staffer Allan Wolter. This umbrella organization for 1.5 million sportsmen was founded in 1978 to […]
Posted inDecember 11, 1995: Hunting: Its place in the West comes under attack
The politics of hunting creates fluidalliances
Note: This article is a sidebar to this issue’s feature story, Unarmed but dangerous critics close in on hunting. While nonprofit groups like Ducks Unlimited or People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals have sharply defined positions on hunting, most environmental groups – composed of both avid hunters and anti-hunters – waffle somewhere in the […]
Posted inDecember 11, 1995: Hunting: Its place in the West comes under attack
For this hunter, there was only one elk
Note: This article is a sidebar to this issue’s feature story, Unarmed but dangerous critics close in on hunting. It was mid-afternoon and the bowhunter found himself working up a small knob covered with thick, second-growth lodgepole pine. The knob was part of the north slope of a larger mountain not far from the Continental […]
Posted inDecember 11, 1995: Hunting: Its place in the West comes under attack
Forget cattle, the money’s in the buck
Note: This article is a sidebar to this issue’s feature story, Unarmed but dangerous critics close in on hunting. Rancher and farmer Milo Hanson from Saskatchewan, Canada, never imagined that hunting would change his life. That was before judges from the Boone and Crockett Club scored a whitetail buck that he shot near his farm […]
Posted inDecember 11, 1995: Hunting: Its place in the West comes under attack
Idaho hunters ask public to bear with them
Note: This article is a sidebar to this issue’s feature story, Unarmed but dangerous critics close in on hunting. Lynn Fritchman is used to spending time with dead bears. The third-generation Idaho hunter inspects bears for the Idaho Department of Fish and Game after they’ve been killed by hunters. But over the years Fritchman heard […]
Posted inDecember 11, 1995: Hunting: Its place in the West comes under attack
Outfitters take aim at four-wheelers
Note: This article is a sidebar to this issue’s feature story, Unarmed but dangerous critics close in on hunting. After a poor deer and elk hunt this year, many Colorado outfitters are calling for a thinning of the herds. Not the herds of big game – it’s the all-terrain vehicles that thundered through the state’s […]
Posted inDecember 11, 1995: Hunting: Its place in the West comes under attack
One does not hunt in order to kill
Note: This article is a sidebar to this issue’s feature story, Unarmed but dangerous critics close in on hunting. One does not hunt in order to kill; on the contrary, one kills in order to have hunted. If one were to present the sportsman with the death of the animal as a gift he would […]
Posted inDecember 11, 1995: Hunting: Its place in the West comes under attack
He stuffs what they kill
Note: This article is a sidebar to this issue’s feature story, Unarmed but dangerous critics close in on hunting. John Stevenson, who runs Wyoming Taxidermy in Evansville, near Casper, used to mount 500 kills a year. But bad winters have taken a toll on local antelope herds, the number of hunting permits has been reduced […]
Posted inDecember 11, 1995: Hunting: Its place in the West comes under attack
Is hunting morally acceptable?
Note: This article is a sidebar to this issue’s feature story, Unarmed but dangerous critics close in on hunting. Editor’s note: The people she most wants to talk to are the men and women who stalk animals and shoot to kill – the people who make moral choices in a split second. She is Ann […]
Posted inDecember 11, 1995: Hunting: Its place in the West comes under attack
Unarmed but dangerous critics close in on hunting
Lee Metzgar took up hunting as a youngster, as soon as he could handle a rifle. At first he hunted mostly birds; then he moved west to teach ecology at the University of Montana and, as he phrases it, his hunting got serious. For the next 22 years, stalking in the Rockies, Metzgar bagged deer, […]
Posted inNovember 27, 1995: Saving the ranch
What’s historic? What’s worth preserving?
Dear HCN, Hooray for Tom Casey who wants to preserve the nuclear power plant structures west of Olympia, Wash., according to HCN’s Heard Around the West column Oct. 16. They are an honest representation of our cultural heritage, and, like charming 1800s brick buildings, their presence on the landscape tells us, over time, just where […]
Posted inNovember 27, 1995: Saving the ranch
Our dictators are home grown
Dear HCN, I noticed in a recent article by Elizabeth Manning that the residents of Catron County, N.M., support Dick Manning and his anti-government proclamations (HCN, 10/30/95). As a resident of Catron County I can assure you that is not true. At least half, if not more, of the residents think he is a loud-mouth […]
Posted inNovember 27, 1995: Saving the ranch
Former Elko resident tells why he moved
Dear HCN, I was delighted that Jon Christensen did an article on Elko County, Nev. (HCN, 10/30/95). I just wish he had done so while I was still living there. I worked as an engineer for one of the gold-mining companies in the area until I decided to leave after being informed that my political […]
Posted inNovember 27, 1995: Saving the ranch
A losing battle
Dear HCN, I was disappointed and extremely saddened after reading “In the heart of the New West, the sheep win one” (HCN, 10/16/95). Disappointed that with so many other environmental problems facing this country, the Sierra Club Foundation has chosen to pick on a small rural cooperative to the tune of $2.5 million. It seems […]
Posted inNovember 27, 1995: Saving the ranch
Ganados never attacked anyone
Dear HCN, Ganados del Valle is not an organization which “attacks reputations’ and smears them in our valley’s “red brown mud” (HCN, 10/16/95). Over the past five years we have had several opportunities to tell the story of the history of the lawsuit brought by the attorney general of New Mexico against the Sierra Club […]
Posted inNovember 27, 1995: Saving the ranch
Watch out for guns
It was killing season again, and in Colorado it might have been safer to romp through the woods in blaze orange than to stay near a hunting camp. A 16-year-old girl in the Uncompahgre National Forest hopped off her four-wheeler while unloading her rifle Oct. 21, only to shoot her father in the leg. He […]
Posted inNovember 27, 1995: Saving the ranch
Dam project called a “bungle’ and a “porker’
A committee of the Catholic Diocese of Pueblo, Colo., surprised everyone, including Pueblo Bishop Arthur Tafoya, by blasting the proposed Animas-La Plata water project as an “environmental, economic and social bungle.” The Human Development Commission of the diocese also asked, “Who is responsible for the continuing agitation to support a project so badly conceived? We […]
Posted inNovember 27, 1995: Saving the ranch
Lakotas want Crazy Horse off silver screen
Lakotas want Crazy Horse off silver screen As a Turner Network Television crew packed up its cameras after filming Crazy Horse in Hot Springs, S.D., members of the Lakota tribe picked up their pens to sign a petition against the latest TNT movie focusing on Native American history. Descendants of Crazy Horse and Lakota Sioux […]
Posted inNovember 27, 1995: Saving the ranch
Ranchers win again
Ranchers win again Environmentalists in New Mexico plan to follow a trend set in Idaho and Oregon: taking the state to court after having bids for state grazing permits rejected. They charge that the land office is discriminating against them and violating state law by not managing state land for maximum profit. Forest Guardians and […]