LETTER TO THE EDITOR:
https://m.lasvegassun.com/news/2020/jul/03/trophy-hunters-ranks-shrinking/
Friday, July 3, 2020 | 2 a.m.
A friend sent me a copy of the June 21 letter “Wildlife board is unbalanced.”
If the letter writer thinks Nevada’s Wildlife Commission is biased, she needs to see how Pennsylvania’s operates. It is made up exclusively of hunters and trappers (we have a separate fish and boat commission), whereas you have at least one non-hunter or industry crony.
She is correct in how various states’ wildlife agencies are staffed. The trophy-hunting industry has a stranglehold on them via, among other things, donations to state legislators and governors. There is also the endless perpetuation of the myth that trophy hunting is a benefit to all wildlife and citizens as well as the economy.
In fact, most if not all state and even federal wildlife agencies practice game management, not true wildlife management. The two…
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Exposing the Big Game 
The trophy hunting “conservation/wildlife management” industry, with its heroes Teddy Roosevelt (big game hunter & Leopold (Wolf killer) must be abolished, not restructured–if wild animal populations are to survive even minimally in this Climate Change world.
“Game agencies” exist for one reason: to provide hunting, trapping targets for hunters and trappers. They are usually also aligned with the Grazing Industry, the members of which are also hunters, trappers.
Those of us who want change, must learn from Black Lives Matter, which is demanding Systemic Change of how society views police, and how police have become “militarized units,”which worships the Militarization of this society–and the world. Fascism and fascist regimes are increasing around the world, partly due to the need to control larger and larger human populations.
Those “wildlife conservation groups” and other animal organizations have unfortunately become part of the problem. They have become corporate, want to maintain their cushy positions, and largely no longer are grassroots, activist groups, often “working with” becoming “stakeholders” with The Enemy.
Over the decades many of us who have worked against this destructive model, now realize that “wildlife management” is dangerous to the wild. If wild animals have healthy habitat, free from hunting, trapping and grazing, they may be able to survive: they are not the ones who need management. Those who have joined groups who purport to be defending, protecting wildlife, must be challenged, exposed and not funded–if they are continuing to work with these wildlife killing agencies–period.
Do we have the guts and persistence to take this on, and stay with the fight until these agencies are abolished? The Wild doesn’t have much time left.
stealtraps.com http://www.foranimals.org
There’s no cush here at C.A.S.H.