<\/a>The recovery of animal populations such as elk, whitetail deer, wolves, and grizzly bears over the past 100 years has been a massive success story. These species are all doing well now and are considered recovered from their previous threatened or endangered status. This recovery has been led by wildlife biologists, hunters, and the people who live with these animals on their property. To continue to properly manage these species, state and federal wildlife officials need to be able to make decisions that are best for the animal population as a whole. These decisions should never be based on emotional reactions to anthropomorphized images of these animals. If game officials determine that a population needs to have a certain amount harvested every year, hunters should be able to buy licenses and harvest those surplus animals.<\/p>\nOne final note. When having this discussion with people who do not support hunting, they often bring up the point that nature should not need out management. They also say that the reason that too many bears, or deer, or wolves are a problem is only because humans are living in their habitat. While this may be true, you will never put that genie back in the bottle. Humans are here to stay, and with careful and scientific management of the wild animals that live among us, we should all be able to coexist indefinitely.<\/p>\n
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Alright, we’re going to dive headfirst into a complicated topic. I think it is, however, a topic that hunters should be well versed in and able to explain to non-hunters. That topic is the role that emotions should play in wildlife management. There has been a trend over the past several decades of increased public […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":127,"featured_media":3854,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"nelio_content":{"isAutoShareEnabled":true,"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"followers":[127],"suggestedReferences":[],"includedReferences":[],"efiUrl":"","efiAlt":"","highlights":[]},"yoast_head":"\n
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