Showing posts with label ethical hunting. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ethical hunting. Show all posts
Thursday, January 11, 2018

Aldo Leopold on Gadgets and Fox Hunting

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Aldo Leopold Aldo Leopold, who was born on this day in 1887 , was one of the most important people in the history of U.S. conservation. ...
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Sunday, July 24, 2016

Hunting Ethics and Terriers

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A repost from June 2005. The hunting community has given a LOT of serious thought to ethical hunting and perhaps this is a topic over-...
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Monday, November 24, 2014

A Quote of Note

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"A peculiar virtue in wildlife ethics is that the hunter ordinarily has no gallery to applaud or disapprove of his conduct. Whate...
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Sunday, March 25, 2012

Killing Bison to Kill Off the Native Population

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When the story is told of the death of the North American buffalo, the subtext is often eliminated, with the story often reduced to a tale...
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Thursday, February 09, 2012

Fair Chase for the Fox

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Sometimes someone says the right thing and I am pretty thrilled. An example is Lt. Col. Dennis Foster , executive director of the Maste...
Friday, December 23, 2011

22,963 Ducks Land in Laurel, Maryland

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Duck wings. National Georgraphic explains all , in a piece entitled: Hunters: For Love of the Land .  A brief squib: The great irony...
Wednesday, December 14, 2011

And The Pathetic Politician Award Goes To...

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And the Pathetic Pandering Politician Award goes to... Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin. Last month Governor Fallin went on an elk "hu...
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Friday, March 12, 2010

How to Train a Scent Hound

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Gone to Earth by Thomas Woodward. Over at Field & Stream's excellent Field Notes blog, Chad Love put up a post about South Caroli...
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Friday, October 16, 2009

Artificial Dens, Big Dogs and Fair Chase

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Concrete liners wait to be assembled into an artificial fox earth in Germany. This is an "in and out" design where the barking d...
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Thursday, October 01, 2009

Bio-Engineered Widllife and Artificial Hunting

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Nine year ago trout that were genetically engineered to grow extra-big escaped from a fish farm and entered Lake Diefenbaker, a man-made l...
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Friday, July 17, 2009

Badger Baiting Is Not Badger Hunting

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Back in March of this year , I wrote a piece on this blog entitled Lie Down With Dogs, Get Up With Fleas in which I bemoaned the inevitable...
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Friday, July 03, 2009

Laughing and Cringing at Foolish Americans

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Some year back, I wrote a piece that openly laughed at folks who bought terriers from countries they had never been to , and from people th...
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Thursday, May 14, 2009

John Russell's Bagged Fox

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From Alys Serrell's 1904 book , With Hound and Terrier in the Field , we learn that the famous Rev. John Russell was not above using ...
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Monday, April 13, 2009

Canned Hunts Shame Us All

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The latest news out of Kentucky and West Virginia brings more shame to the world of hunting. As the NBC-affiliate TV station in Lexington, ...
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Monday, March 16, 2009

If You Come Across a Fox Sette This Time of Year

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You can never be too careful this time of year, as fox can sometimes be found in groundhog settes that otherwise have little or no evidence...
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Monday, March 02, 2009

Starvation is the Predator that Never Sleeps

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From The Well-Dressed Ape by Hannah Holmes: For many ... species, starvation is the predator that never sleeps. In Sweden, one study found ...

The Working Terrier Federation Now on the Web

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Barrie Wade, Chairman of the National Working Terrier Federation , writes to say that to mark its 25th year the NWTF has at long last set up...

Lie Down With Dogs, Get Up With Fleas

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  Some 17 months ago, I wrote a piece entitled Honey Pots and Trolls in the Land of Eire in which I noted that some gas bag in Ireland had...