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Show I JfieJ WORLD OUTDOOJIS Today, according to reliable estimates, some 16 million Americans enjoy some form of hunting. With our population expected ex-pected to increase by 100 million in the next twenty years or so, how many hunters will we have by 1980? if there is any game left to hunt. Certainly, there will be game to hunt. In recent years we have "woke up" to the need for conservation. con-servation. Federal and state fish and wildlife departments, through management and planning, have "brought back" open seasons on many species of wildlife that were fast disappearing in many areas of the century. It is most likely a safe guess that within the next two decades we will have twice perhaps three times as many hunters at we have today. And more than twice as many problems! The demands of an increasing population will xiecessarily turn more and more "open" country Into industrial sites and residential residen-tial areas. Wildlife management teams will have an increasingly difficult task in keeping the wildlife wild-life harvest and wildlife supply in balance. Time will have to tell how these problems are met and dealt with. But, every man who shoulders a gun in the field this season should realise that a good tomorrow is as Important as a good today. First: Don't violate game laws. Never shoot wildlife that is protected pro-tected by law and don't exceed bag limits. Laws are made for good reasons. Secondly: Don't waste wildlife. Retrieve all dead or injured game. Never take a shot when you know full well that your target tar-get is out of range. Determine the effective killing range of your rifle or shotgun and don't waste ammunition or wildlife by shooting beyond that range. |