am, Tue Jan 2, 2018.
A hunter was injured early Monday afternoon when the all-terrain vehicle (ATV) he was operating hit a stump and overturned in woods about 2.5 miles west of U.S. 421 in western Wilkes County.
The victim had a cell phone and was able to call another hunter in the woods some distance away. The other hunter met a member of the Champion Fire Department in a field near the South Prong of Lewis Fork Creek, U.S. 421 and the base of the Blue Ridge Mountain escarpment within about five minutes after 911 was called and emergency personnel were dispatched.
Champion first responders and Wilkes Rescue Squad members reached the victim on ATVs and he was transported out of the woods on a Wilkes Rescue Squad ATV. Wilkes Emergency Medical Services also responded.
Emergency personnel said the victim was conscious and alert and didn’t appear to have life-threatening injuries. He was transported by AirCare helicopter from the field at the base of the mountain to Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center.
The victim and the other hunter were hunting on a tract of about 1,000 acres on Dividing Ridge that is controlled by a hunting club.
Exposing the Big Game 
Reblogged this on The Extinction Chronicles.
When hunters say that they are the primary source of wildlife and habitat conservation funding, do they subtract the dollars that agencies and groups spend cutting them down from failed tree-stands or extracting the corpse at the base of the tree, search & rescue operations, helicopter evacuations, emergency-department services, law-enforcement investigations, environmental lead (Pb) removal, legislative time discussing whether the law should allow bump-stocks on AR-15s for predator hunting, orphaned wildlife rescue and rehabilitation, funeral expenses for non-hunters caught by an errant bullet, replacement cost and emotional distress for coyote-like pets killed mistakenly, and so on? (Okay, I know the “coyote-like” part isn’t fair, as most any animal looks like a squirrel, coyote, or life-threatening wolf when one is a hunter.)
Sounds as if he’ll right back out there.
They must have forgotten about all those dedutions.
Bob Mc brings up good points about the expense of rescuing the nimrods. I once got a fund-raising call from a hunter rescue group. They wanted a donation. The caller soon discovered he reached the wrong person, and he must have been really happy when he could finally hang up. I did decide to make a donation–to PETA.