Wealthy hunters pay top dollar for desired hunts, padding Fish and Game budgets and prodding resistance.
High-dollar trophy hunting contributes to species recovery efforts, but most people in the U.S. don’t approve of the practice.
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Eight days after he killed an elk nicknamed “Bullwinkle” in a hayfield east of Ellensburg, Washington, Tod Reichert had some explaining to do. Again.
Over at least two decades, the southwest Washington business owner spent hundreds of thousands of dollars buying the exclusive hunting licenses he used to kill more than 100 elk. His license for the Ellensburg hunt, a “governor’s tag” auctioned to fund elk-related conservation efforts by state wildlife managers, cost him $50,000.
On that hunt in the waning days of fall 2015, Reichert had hoped to stay out of the spotlight…
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Exposing the Big Game 
You know, a glaring problem with trophy hunting is that one trophy, or a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, is never enough.
These greedy bastards have rooms full of dead animals, in this case, more than 100 elk! Why doesn’t anyone see anything wrong with this kind of behavior? It’s ugly.
I see this country lately as becoming one big example of Easter Island – climate change, all resources used up, all wildlife eaten or killed off for any number of human reasons. It’s in our DNA.
One of the worst, most frightening images I have in my mind is that of a whole group of people in Africa descending upon and killing an elephant with machetes, closing in on the poor wounded animal. Awful.
Wasn’t sure where to post, but this is a whistleblower story that made my day:
https://www.undercurrentnews.com/2019/10/29/federal-judge-renews-ban-on-gillnet-fishing-in-nantucket-area-to-protect-whales/