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Show These styles will take you from the back country to the brew pub in rugged elegance and top notch comfort, ensuring you weather any storm in comfort. o A “3 This unidentified para-glider swooped across high-voltage lines and down on City Park in Park City after a mysterious takeoff from the Aerie subdivision atop Masonic Hill. Is it illegal? Who knows? The Park City Council may not have yet outlawed gliding within the city limits. @ Pre Cm 518 Historic Main ¢ Park City, Utah & Jackson Hole Wyoming 801-645-9427 toy Nt Self-Aggrandizing Argument DE N ot for a second should anyone believe in the premise that the decline in sport hunting will leave wildlife hurting (Mark Gerard, October Mountain Times) . That is a self-aggrandizing argument hoisted upon us by state wildlife agencies and strident hunting organizations. It is true sport hunting is declining. Some researchers suggested the first decade into the 21st Century will see the meaningful end to hunting - not the literal end, as there will always be hunters and peachers, but the meaningful end of hunting, I'm glad sport hunting is on the decline. I do believe that it must change in an even more dramatic fashion and, in fact, 1 already undergoing profound change for na It's rare. PAGE 4 « NOVEMBER 1997 It's one of a kind. It's the texture and appeal of a recycled wood cabinet, hand carved and polished by the experienced hands of Manuel Ortega. many reasons, including a deep and broad change in attitudes toward wildlife. Ironically, the data suggests that the anti- hunting movement Courtesy to the Trade (801) 485-3643 Fax (801) 485-7538 Not all hunters, obviously, are ecolegically illiterate or afraid to go into the woods. That is one of the common reasons to kill more and Most observers suggest it is the shrill of many hunters that has hurt the image of hunting - the me attitude so commonly seen among too many hunters. more cougar - to make the woods safer not just for deer, a classic example of ecological "don't take my huntin' opportunity away from me." Suggest pine marten, an old growth (forest) indicator species, be protected and not trapped and the trappers scream of lost Salt Lake City, Utah 84106 "Wolves kill my deer. Grizz make being in the woods too dangerous to go huntin’. Why, if ya keep this up, there won't be any place for humans!" _ It is true that hunters have paid their way. But the rest of us haven't even been given the chance. Who wants to support a hook and bullet gun club? They haven't paid for wildlife --they've paid to hunt it. has had little impact Suggest a wildlife preserve and we hear, 3007 South Highland Drive the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources admits isn't happening in Gerard's. article, and the whining intensifies. Suggest wolves or grizzly bear be welcomed back to their native homelands in Utah and the whining turns to screeching: this decline in hunting participation. upon Rustica Custom furnishings built by hand one piece at a time with threats and whining. Suggest the wildlife be managed within an ecological perspective and with a tolerance toward this broader social paradigm, as opportunities. Suggest mountain lions not be pursued by hound dogs six months of the year to be shot at close range and the hunting community becomes hysterical. Suggest that we establish a wild fisheries refugium and the same assembly gesticulates illiteracy, but also safer for the hunter. The point is, wildlife is not dependent upon hunters. Wildlife can be "managed" under ecological principles, rather than recreational maximum sustained yield. When we shift our view from wildlife as objects and resources, to recognizing them as subjects, part and parcel to a mysterious flow of life, filling our creel or bagging our deer or elk will not be important. When that happens wildlife will become wild and a value in and of itself and the life they live will inspire us wildlife will then be deeply enhanced. —Dick Carter ” High Uintas Preservation Council |