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Show Page 12 Thursday, December 28, 1978 LISTIN These are the PARK CITY CO tfj jji'j'ij'iji Frl f rw f 1 rlk Reprurtrd from The New York Tins There are many, particularly par-ticularly in the urban centers, cen-ters, who feel that America has reached the stage at. which hunting is no longer a valid pursuit of reasonable men. The brief annual-; parade of dead deer on automobiles, for example, is a distasteful sight to the an-tihunter, an-tihunter, who argues that the pursuit of game is an anachronistic and morally wrong ritual in an age when open spaces are shrinking and when the need for food gathering by hunting is rarely a matter of survival. The hunter counters by asserting that his opponents are in many cases ignorant, that they have an exceptionally excep-tionally romantic and inaccurate inac-curate view of nature's workings, that under current game management programs hunting plays an important role in controlling animal populations. There is, in short, an ever-intensifying ever-intensifying clash between those who engage in the chase and those who condemn con-demn it. Perhaps the most thorough examination of attitudes at-titudes toward hunting in America is being carried on by Dr. Stephen R. Kellert, a sociologist at Yale University's Univer-sity's Behavioral Sciences Study Center. Kellert's work is part of a much broader study of attitudes toward wildlife, and knowledge of it, that is financed by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service. The purpose pur-pose of the study, which has been under way for more than four years, is to provide that agency, and presumably state fish and game departments, solid information in-formation for policy changes in keeping with citizen's desires. "As a ball-park estimate," Kellert said in a recent interview, in-terview, "there are, in our total popoulation of about 220 million, 20 million-plus hunters hun-ters and 20 million antihun-ters." antihun-ters." The remaining millions have no strong feelings about hunting, Kellert said, but most seem slightly opposed, op-posed, tending to associate hunting with violence and generally antisocial activities. Although few in this country coun-try truly depend on food gathered by hunting, most hunters still go afield for this purpose, Kellert said. "The predominant group of hunters hun-ters in this country is still rural people who go out primarily to harvest an animal," he said. They may get other satisfactions, he added, but if they did not have a fairly certain prospect of getting game they would not go. , This hunter attitude. which Kellert calls "Utilitarian," does not seem to carry with it any special affection fo? wildlife. It derives instead from a basically "man-centered perspective," in which' animals are seen as a meat crop to be harvested. It is clear that a man who raises hogs, chickens or cattle to be slaughtered for food can perceive little difference between that act and the act of hunting for the same reason. Nor can he sympathize sym-pathize with the urban meat eater, who simply shuts his eyes to the death of the creature he consumes. The second, and the least common, of the three major types of hunters is what Kellert labels the "naturalistic." This group is characterized by a strong affection af-fection for wildlife and regards hunting as a means of entering into the natural world and learning more about it. "The feeling," Kellert has written, "was that a basic prey-predator relation permitted an experience ex-perience of closeness and intimacy in-timacy with nature, which was otherwise almost impossible im-possible to' achieve.... Even the prey animal is seen as an ; object of respect and admiration." ad-miration." The third group is what Kellert calls the "domionistic," a coined word whose meaning comes close to . that of "dominative." This group essentially embraces what Kellert refers to as sport hunting. In a recent paper he observed of this "domionistic" attitude: "The major emphases were on the opportunities hunting provided for competition, com-petition, achievement, comradeship and expressions ex-pressions of power and skill.... The hunt is primarily valued as a social activity." There is in this group' he said, a strong belief that hunting fosters feelings of masculinity, competence and power. Sport hunters also know less about wildlife then do the two other hunter groups, Kellert said. The two major antihunting attidues are "humanistic" and "moralistic," Kellert says. In his paper he observed that the "humanistic" attitude at-titude was based on a strong emotional identification "typically projected from pets to include the presumed pain and suffering of wild, hunted animals." Kellert said this was especially evident in the case of large animals, with which empathy em-pathy is particularly easy. These animals, which would include deer,, are regarded as innocent and beautiful, he said, and destroying them is seen as terrible. Kellert found that the "moralistic" attitude was more sophisticated and complex but had as its core the premise that hunting is inherently evil. This group, said Kellert, opposes hunting as much for its presumably degrading influence on humans as for the harm to animals, and links hunting, aggression, guns and militarism together. . There is also a small group, he said, that believes hunters are psychopaths. And another small segment feels that hunting is a major threat to the survival of various species of wild birds and other animals, a concept that is erroneous, in the United States at least. To my knowledge, there is no animal in the United States faced with extinction because of overkill by hunters, hun-ters, a danger that the Fish and Wildlife Service and the various state agencies are empowered to protect against. Kellert's studies showed that antihunters were much less informed about wild creatures than were hunters, particularly naturalistic hunters. Perhaps as a result, the antihunters were more fearful of wildlife. Of the three groups of hunters, hun-ters, Kellert wrote, meat hunters "included significantly greater numbers num-bers of rural people over 65 and with incomes of less than $6,000 annually." Sport hunters "included far more hunters residing in large cities and who reported more frequent membership in the armed forces." Naturalistic hunters "consisted "con-sisted of significantly more persons under 30, with higher educations. ...(and) far more likely to reside at areas of 10,000 ' to 50,I)00; population." Kellert suggested that two things might be done to mitigate the clash between hunters and antihunters. "Too often," he said, "the measure of success of any program is the numbers engaged in it. What we sould be trying to do is nurture a quality hunter. We haven't . tried hard enough to cultivate a historical, ecological and ethical sensitivity sen-sitivity and awareness among our hunter population." With this in mind, he suggests that the so-called hunter safety programs throughout the nation might also focus on trying to create hunters who are more knowledgeable about, and appreciative of our wildlife. He also said that the financing finan-cing of state fish and game agencies ought to be more diversified most such money comes from the sale of hunting and fishing licensesso licen-sesso that the agencies would tend to be more, responsive to the general , public. "There is too much concentration on game species," he said. "We need' -a nongame program also." 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