>>2355608Not much of an /out/ user.
I got a turkey tag this year for my state. Went hunting earlier this week and it was fun. Today I learned that my state’s turkey hunting stats are rather low. Around 7,000 instead of 14,000. A 50 percent reduction in tags being fulfilled. This year we can only bag 1 turkey as the populations of the bird have been on a constant decline for years.
Anyone else worry about animals like Turkey, Quail, and more? Animals that are native and used to be numerous but now are dying off rapidly, but this time not due to market hunters and unregulated hunting. Its a scary thought but most people, not even outdoorsmen or hunters would even care for, and most people wouldn’t never even notice.
I guess the declines coincide with the overall decline of native insect populations along with plant and fish life.
Maybe I’m just being negative, but it’s hard to shake off how demoralizing and frightening this is. Our environments and native lands, plants, animals, and water sources are being containment and lost on a rapid scale that makes even previous extinction periods of the last seem mundane.
I started our hunting as a way to bond with family, put food on the table, enjoy the outdoors, and to try to kept to keep in touch with the actual human version of myself while giving some money to my state’s DNR agency to keep this all afloat.
But the more I get involved with hunting, nature, the environment, and try to compare/contrast the modern lifestyle and consumerist culture that has taken hold and the effects the modern world has on this planet my desire for preservation and regeneration of the world’s natural resources grows intensely. I am not a divine being that can solve these issues with a snap of a finger, but I’m fueled by my love of all that is this earth and the life it brings, as wanting to change the world for the better brings fuel to mine.
Does this level of doom and gloom & inspiration and introducing come to you guys?
