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…
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