Net Gunsmith/What Conservation Means to Me
My first article for Net Gunsmith has been published! You can check it out by Clicking Here. Much more to come here. If you have suggestions for topics I should cover, please feel free to contact me.
The rest of this post also appears on my "Conservation" page and will be permanent there. I also felt like sharing it as a regular post as well. Please comment with what Conservation means to you.
Conservation is an important part of every sportsman's involvement in the outdoors. Without the commitment of every man, woman, boy and girl to the conservation of the species and habitat that they hunt or fish for, these precious natural resources would dwindle to extinction. I served as Conservation Director for the Wyoming Bass Federation for a little over a year and saw first hand the legal battle that conservationists wage with the political powers in order to defend and protect our outdoor heritage.
Hunting and fishing are some of the few sports where the participants are the chief caretakers of their "arena." You probably won't see Tom Brady painting the endzone and stripes on a football field, Kobe Bryant mopping the hardwood floors in a basketball arena or Tiger Woods mowing the fairway at Augusta. But you will see bass anglers like Kevin VanDam and big game hunters like Cameron Hanes partnering with organizations like B.A.S.S. and the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation, two giants in conservation. You'll see Ray Scott and Bill Dance building and designing lakes for optimal bass habitat and you'll see Lee and Tiffany Lakosky planting soybeans and other food to ensure health and survival of whitetail deer in Iowa.
Though the media pervades a very negative image of the "Bubba" hunter as a bloodthirsty savage with an unquenchable desire for violence, in reality sportsmen and women are the key ingredient to managing and preserving every game animal on the continent. Even non-game animals such as feral hogs, coyotes and other varmints have such a following that their pursuers spend money, time and other resources in habitat management and population control.
Don't let the tree huggers deceive you; hunters are the original conservationists.
Conservation is an important part of every sportsman's involvement in the outdoors. Without the commitment of every man, woman, boy and girl to the conservation of the species and habitat that they hunt or fish for, these precious natural resources would dwindle to extinction. I served as Conservation Director for the Wyoming Bass Federation for a little over a year and saw first hand the legal battle that conservationists wage with the political powers in order to defend and protect our outdoor heritage.
Hunting and fishing are some of the few sports where the participants are the chief caretakers of their "arena." You probably won't see Tom Brady painting the endzone and stripes on a football field, Kobe Bryant mopping the hardwood floors in a basketball arena or Tiger Woods mowing the fairway at Augusta. But you will see bass anglers like Kevin VanDam and big game hunters like Cameron Hanes partnering with organizations like B.A.S.S. and the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation, two giants in conservation. You'll see Ray Scott and Bill Dance building and designing lakes for optimal bass habitat and you'll see Lee and Tiffany Lakosky planting soybeans and other food to ensure health and survival of whitetail deer in Iowa.
Though the media pervades a very negative image of the "Bubba" hunter as a bloodthirsty savage with an unquenchable desire for violence, in reality sportsmen and women are the key ingredient to managing and preserving every game animal on the continent. Even non-game animals such as feral hogs, coyotes and other varmints have such a following that their pursuers spend money, time and other resources in habitat management and population control.
Don't let the tree huggers deceive you; hunters are the original conservationists.
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