Hunting

Keeping the "Hunt" in Hunting

David Petersen | Posted 05.11.2012

Read More: Wildlife Management, Morality, Game Farms, Hunting, Canned Hunting, Hunting Regulations, Game Hunting, Market Hunting, Denver News
David Petersen

Amorality is hardly the only dark side to game ranching. Consider these outtakes from a conversation I had recently with Canada's Dr. Valerius Geist, an ethical hunter and world authority on elk and other deer species.

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Canned Killing: Don't Call It Hunting!

David Petersen | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: Canned Hunting, Game Farms, Ethics, Wild Game, Hunting, Canned Killing, Animal Hunting, Stephen Kellert, Trophy Hunting, Fair Hunting, Orion: The Hunter's Institute, Hunting for Meat, Ethical Hunting, Denver News
David Petersen

There is honorable hunting, and there is cowardly captive killing. The motivations and characters defining each are as distinct as day and night.

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Cat Tales: The Story of Ngoye -- A Snare Victim

Panthera | Posted 04.27.2012

Read More: Leopard, Animal Rights, Wire Snares, Hunting, Panthera, Poaching, Big Cats, Animal Protection, Green News
Panthera

A wire snare is cheap to make, easy to set and deadly for big cats. One recent victim close to my heart is a leopard called Ngoye. She is the central character of a project I started 10 years ago in Phinda, South Africa -- Panthera's Munyawana Leopard Project.

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Ted Nugent: Convicted "Slob Hunter"

Josh Sugarmann | Posted 04.24.2012

Read More: Ted Nugent Obama, National Rifle Association, Ted Nugent Plea Agreement, Hunting, Ted Nugent, Hunting Ethics, Nra, Ray Arnett, Ted Nugent Secret Service, Ted Nugent Nra, Media News
Josh Sugarmann

Public condemnation from the world outside the NRA's sphere of websites, online talk shows (where Nugent made his comments), emails, and magazines -- the media, politicians, non-gun owners, etc., etc., etc. -- only validates such views.

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Hollywood vs. Real Life: Which Love Story Grabs Your Heart?

Anne Woods | Posted 04.19.2012

Read More: Wounded Veterans, Nicholas Sparks, Hunting, Military Families, The Lucky One, Nicholas Sparks the Lucky One, Military Wives, Impact News
Anne Woods

The Lucky One is the newest romantic movie based on the bestselling novel by Nicholas Sparks. Today, I share another love story. My storytelling skills are not as great as Sparks', but my story shares some of the same elements.

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Lead Ammunition And Polar Bear Trophies Approved By House

AP | JIM ABRAMS | Posted 04.18.2012

Read More: Video, Hunting Public Lands, Public Lands, Environmental Policy, House Hunting Bill, Hunting Bill, Hunting, Lead Ammo, Environmentalism, Polar Bears, Polar Bear Trophies, Lead Bullets, Lead Ammunition, Hunting Bill House, Politics News

WASHINGTON — A hunting bill passed by the House on Tuesday makes it harder to restrict hunting and fishing on public lands and ensures that the ...

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Stop Illegal OHV Riders by Getting Their Number

David Petersen | Posted 04.11.2012

Read More: ID Plates, Atvs, Law Enforcement, Fishing, Hunting, Rep. Priola, Ohvs, Denver Politics, Denver News
David Petersen

Problems arising from in-our-faces off-highway vehicle abuse are within the public's power to meaningfully curtail... if we really want to.

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Law Protecting Rare Antelopes Upsets Ranchers

AP | ANGELA K. BROWN | Posted 04.04.2012

Read More: Video, Hunting Safaris, Texas Trophy Hunting, Texas Hunting Safaris, Texas Hunting Laws, Hunting, Texas Trophy Animals, Trophy Animal Hunting, Trophy Animals, Antelope Hunting, Hunting Laws, Green News

FORT WORTH, Texas -- For years, hundreds of Texas ranchers have made big money on exotic antelopes, with hunters paying up to $10,000 to bag just one ...

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Hunting Through the Thicket

Steven Sanderson | Posted 05.22.2012

Read More: Elephants, Hunting, Peta, Conservation, Aldo Leopold, Wildlife, Trump Sons Hunting, Trump Sons, World News
Steven Sanderson

The marriage of hunting and conservation may be troubled, but it is not time for divorce. Private hunting- and fishing-based organizations contribute to habitat preservation.

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What These Young Women Have In Common With Katniss From "The Hunger Games"

Eatocracy | Posted 03.19.2012

Read More: Jennifer Lawrence, Katniss Everdeen, Hunting, Girl Hunter, Hunter, Female Stereotypes, The Hunger Games, Women News

"Within a few minutes, I spot a rabbit and make my first kill with the bow and arrow. It's not my usual clean shot through the eye, but I'll take it,"...

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It's Quite Simple: Unfollow Trump Jr. on Twitter & 'Fire' Sons From the Show

Randall | Posted 05.15.2012

Read More: Fired, World Wildlife Fund, Elephants, Zimbabwe, Earth Day, Nurture, Ivanka Trump, Celebrity Apprentice, African Elephants, Wildlife Conservation, Sicko, Leopards, Randall's Animals, Eric Trump, Animal News, Crocodiles, Leopard, Donald Trump Jr., Hunting, Ny News, Honey Badger Don't Care, Donald Trump, Africa, Nature, Habitat for Humanity, Honey Badger, Randall, Endangered Species, Animal Planet, Disgusting Foods, Wildlife, Nsfw, Video, Comedy News
Randall

Donald Trump has to deal with his beyond privileged sons, Eric and Donald Jr. Sponsors are starting to pull themselves from Celebrity Apprentice, and why not? As long as these two "sporty" hunters, continue to co-host the program with "daddy," there's no reason to support the show as long as Don Jr. refuses to apologize and drop his "holier than thou," 1983 elitist attitude.

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Trump Brothers Make Themselves Look Like Barbarians

Ingrid Newkirk | Posted 05.13.2012

Read More: Hunting, Donald Trump, Donald Trump Jr., Peta, Eric-Trump, Ethical Hunting, Green News
Ingrid Newkirk

The Trump brothers' destructive little joyride to Africa is something that they should apologize for. It won't bring back the lives they took or redeem America's image among Africans and others, but it would show something they need desperately: some humility.

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What Bid Do I Hear for the Life of That Thar Whale?

Carl Safina | Posted 04.08.2012

Read More: Tradeable Shares, Christopher Costello, Anti-Whaling, Iceland, Catch Shares, Nature Magazine, Norway, Whale Hunting, Japan, International Whaling Commission, Whaling, Hunting, Steve Gaines, Leah Gerber, Personhood, Ban on Whaling, Fisheries, University of California Santa Barbara, Whale, Hal Whitehead, Brandon Keim, Green News
Carl Safina

Want to just solve the problem? They estimate that whaling makes about $31 million in profits. Anti-whaling spends $25 million. If the anti-whaling money directly paid whalers not to hunt -- problem solved.

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PHOTOS: Hunting Seals In Greenland

Bruce Parry | Posted 04.07.2012

Read More: Slidewide, Hunting, Greenland, Seals, Arctic Travel, Travel Blogs, Arctic, Travel News
Bruce Parry

Rasmus has run out of walrus meat so the dogs will have to make do with dry biscuits. Unless we get some meat we're all going to go hungry, that's the way of it out here.

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First-hand Food: Aiming for Self-sufficient? Do the Math.

Tamar Haspel | Posted 04.01.2012

Read More: Chickens, Gardening, Calories, Self-Sufficiency, Homesteading, Slow Food, Hunting, Foraging, Food News
Tamar Haspel

If you're not growing, raising, hunting, foraging, or fishing your own food, you're behind the curve. Chickens and gardens, pigs and turkeys, rods and guns, are all showing up at the homes of what used to be milquetoast supermarket shoppers.

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Enough Duck Shooting

Carl Safina | Posted 03.04.2012

Read More: Bay, Hunting, Beach, Ducks, Environment, Hunting Season, Duck Hunters, Hunters, Hunting Duck, Duck Hunting, Green News
Carl Safina

Unlike deer hunting, which benefits people, the land, and the surviving deer, no justification for duck hunting rings true.

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Trouble For Great Plains Hunting

AP | DIRK LAMMERS | Posted 02.29.2012

Read More: Video, Hunting, Hunters, Great Plains Habitat Loss, Conservation Reserve Program, Great Plains States, Great Plains Winters, Great Plains Conservation Reserve Program, Winter Weather, Ap, Great Plains Hunting, Extreme-Weather, Green News

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — Hunters in the northern Plains who've grown accustomed to bringing home three pheasants or a deer are finding the years of ...

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Montana Regulators Aim To Deter Hunters Faking Disabilities

AP | By MATT VOLZ | Posted 02.11.2012

Read More: Montana, Hunting Permits, Video, Montana Hunting, Hunting, Montana Hunting Permits, Montana Disabled Hunter Permits, Hunting Laws, Hunting Regulations, Montana Hunting Laws, Animals, Ap, Green News

HELENA, Mont. -- Montana wildlife regulators suspect more and more people are faking disabilities to take advantage of privileges granted to disabled ...

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Why I Hunt: 'I Found Myself Thinking, This Can't Be All There Is'

Georgia Pellegrini | Posted 02.11.2012

Read More: Culinary Arts, Women Who Hunt, Video, Hunting, Food, Women and Food, Girl Hunter, Georgia Pellegrini, Women News
Georgia Pellegrini

There are moments, with a cloud of duck feathers floating in the air around me, that even I wonder how I got here.

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Cops: Hunter Took Own Life After Accidentally Shooting Best Friend

Posted 11.28.2011

Read More: Tragedy, Timothy Bologani, Video, Hunting, Vermont, Readsboro, Benjamin Birch, Hunting Tragedy, Vermont Hunting Accident, Crime News

Vermont State Police say a distraught hunter took his own life on Saturday moments after fatally and unintentionally shooting his companion. Benjam...

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Men's Emotional Connection to Guns: An Interview With Michael Messner (Part 2)

Jackson Katz | Posted 01.09.2012

Read More: Gun Owners of America, Second Amendment, Talk Radio, Hunting, World War Two, Gun Control, Masculinity, Japanese-Americans, Seal Beach, Feminism, Guns, Books News
Jackson Katz

Emotions are of central importance on all sides of the gun debate. We can't wish them away in favor of some imagined Mr. Spock-like linear rationality.

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This Halloween Could Mean Scary Cuts to Wildlife Conservation Programs

Jamie Rappaport Clark | Posted 12.31.2011

Read More: Congress, Fishing, Hunting, Wildlife Refuges, Budget Cuts, Extinction, Wildlife, Green News
Jamie Rappaport Clark

It's Halloween and Congress is eyeing some downright scary cuts to vital wildlife conservation programs as part of its budget cutting frenzy. But while these programs may seem like easy targets for cuts, there is a lot more to the story.

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Fathers, Sons and Guns: An Interview With USC Sociologist and Author Michael Messner

Jackson Katz | Posted 12.31.2011

Read More: Baby Boomers, Open Carry, Hunting, Jerry Brown, Mitt Romney, Rick Perry, Manhood, Guns, Nra, Sarah Palin, Parents News
Jackson Katz

"I end the book with a letter to my sons, posing this this sort of dilemma for them to ponder: perhaps the meaning of a son's relationship with his father is a sort of puzzle to be deciphered over a lifetime."

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Finding Love and Compassion After a Week Full of Cruelty

Lonette McKee | Posted 12.25.2011

Read More: Life, Hunting, Black Voices, Execution, Animals, Black Voices News
Lonette McKee

Lately, I've been saddened and sickened by a lot of things in the news. I was particularly appalled and disgusted by the execution of Troy Davis. We...

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Holly Heyser: The Philosophical Huntress

Stephanie J. Stiavetti | Posted 12.20.2011

Read More: Women, Eating, Urban Foraging, Hunting, Vegetarianism, Spirituality, Foraging, Veganism, Healthy Eating, Food, Diet, Food News
Stephanie J. Stiavetti

Hunting. Just the word evokes a response in most people, whether it be excitement, curiosity, anger, sadness, or a host of other feelings.

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