ASK UNCLE JIM
By Jim Robertson Dear Uncle Jim, Looking through the list of Hunting Accidents on the C.A.S.H. website, I see that a fall from a tree stand is one of the most common accidents for every year recorded. Why do you suppose there are so many hunting accidents involving tree stands? Lynn G., Springfield, MA Dear… ASK…
Tougher hunting penalties advance
April 2, 2012 By Bob Priddy, MissouriNet.com Fatal hunting accidents are rare in Missouri….But one involving a hunter from a senate leader’s area could lead…
Duck hunter rescued by helicopter after spending night in waters near Alviso Marina
January 18, 2012 By Mark Gomez, MercuryNews.com A 30-year-old duck hunter who was trapped in his boat overnight was plucked Wednesday morning from the muddy…
Hunting accidents at record low in Texas – Decline seen with increase in hunter education
March 27, 2012 From TimesRecordNews.com The number of Texas hunting accidents in 2011 declined to the lowest since statistical records began in 1966, according to…
BILLS FAST-TRACKED TO SAVE DEER
3/9/04 Dear Wisconsin State Journal: The situation described in “Bills Fast-tracked To Save Deer” (3/4/04) highlights the reason that the present bureaucratic system of managing wildlife needs to be replaced with one that represents the 96 % of Americans who do not hunt. Wildlife agencies are private hunting clubs, masquerading…
DOW CATCHES BIGHORN POACHER
3/11/04 Dear Post Independent: Re: “DOW catches bighorn poacher” (3/10/04), there is no difference between poachers and legal hunters, to the victimized animals. The article states that the victim of poacher, Joshua Lloyd, was a “trophy-size bighorn sheep.” That utilitarian description reinforces what animals are to DOW – “trophies.” Why…
CITY CONSIDERS KILLING CROWS
3/17/04 Dear Times Herald-Record: Regarding: “City considers killing crows” (March 13), it is disappointing that Middletown’s mayor, Joe DeStefano considers violence an option for dealing with real or perceived human-animal conflicts. Longtime crow killer, Dick Mermon, is quoted: “When I started, they made a fool of me.” That’s hardly surprising,…
HUNTING IS BARBARIC
20 March 2004 In his response to my letter regarding the Minneapolis Water Works deer slaughter that was mentioned in the Record, Wayne Pulver states that the notion of a doe protecting her fawns is “an attempt at pure fictional sensationalism.” (“Letter not credible,” March 5). The report of the…
HUNTING WILL NEVER DISAPPEAR?
3/25/04 Dear York Daily Record: Regarding David McFadden’s “Hunting will never disappear ” (3/21/04), which is a response to my previous letter, hunting and all other forms of violence will either disappear (or more realistically, become an anomaly, not a way of life), or humans will. History has been marked…
AMHERST MAN BAGS ELUSIVE CANADIAN WOLF
4/12/04 Dear Buffalo News: “Amherst man bags elusive Canadian wolf” (4/11/04 presents cowardice as adventure. Like child and spousal abusers, hunters claim to have a “special connection” with their victims. Robert Cimato’s victim had eluded serial animal killers for 5 years, but no targeted animal can evade human evil indefinitely.…
GREEN THUMBS ON THE TRIGGER
4/13/04 Dear New York Times: According to “Green Thumbs on the Trigger” (4/8/04), “gardeners have had it with deer.” On the contrary, gardeners and the 95 % of New Yorkers who do not hunt have had it with bloody hands on the trigger. State and federal wildlife mismanagement agencies exist…
RESIDENTS CLASH ON HUNTING BAN
4/19/04 Dear Cape Cod Times: Re: “Residents clash on hunting ban” (4/15/04) and the follow-up article, “Most items approved” (4/16/04), Provincetown has once again refused to ban hunting and trapping in the Cape Cod National Seashore. Provincetown, on its web site, calls itself “a community of iconoclasts, one of the…
DEER LADY PAID HARSH PRICE FOR HER PRINCIPLED STAND
6/26/2004 Judge Ronald E. Kmiotek sentenced the “deer lady,” Anita Depczynski, to 15 days in jail for the horrific crime of feeding deer. The residents of Cheektowaga are safe now that this menace has been removed from their midst. In reality, Depczynski stood on principle and chose civil disobedience to…
ADDRESS THE CAUSE OF TOO MANY GEESE
Letter to the Editor re Goose Slaughter in Downingtown letters@phillynews.com 3 July 2004 I’ve had the dubious “privilege” of attending what are called “Atlantic Flyway” conferences, and on occasion “Joint Conferences of the Atlantic and Mississippi Flyways.” The conferences are comprised of waterfowl managers from states along a “flyway,” or…
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