“The science of wildlife management is premised on managing populations; you don’t manage to prevent harm to individual animals in a species. If that is what wildlife management is about, then you have just made the argument to ban hunting, which is a vital wildlife management tool and widely accepted in America even by non hunters.” The NSSFs Lawrence Keane in Guns in America: The Debate Over Lead-Based Bullets [via newsweek.com]
The owner of the largest hunting ranch in Texas wrote a very interesting article on hunting and conservation that’s well worth the read.