Absolutely.I think all these rules and studies are made up to justify their jobs. LB
Absolutely.I think all these rules and studies are made up to justify their jobs. LB
I'm apprehensive about the baiting ban. I am concerned that ND hunters will have to learn how to track and pattern animals. It is too much to expect hunters to identify food sources, bedding cover, watering holes, and travel routes. It is also unreasonable to expect us to create habitat improvements for our beloved Odocoileus Virginianus. We as North Dakotans just want to sit next to a corn pile. Come on game and fish! #legalizecorn
Since your at it.Don't forget about those that are only in it for the experience and not the kill. :;:stirthepot :;:duel ;:;popcorn
So if every state gets rid of baiting all the anti’s will just deem our outdoor activities as fair chase/no harm no foul and go take up a different cause? I don’t think so
Absolutely not, the anti's fire is always going to be burning. But why give them more firewood to throw on it? If you can't see how perception of baiting causes this, there is no point in trying to explain it to you. I believe to best protect what we have, we have to be very cognizant of our actions and the perceptions of them by those outside of hunting. While our ethics as hunters may differ on some things, the ultimate question is if what we are doing hurts our cause more from the outside view looking in? It's my opinion, but bait (right or wrong) hurts the perception of hunters from the outside.
Absolutely not, the anti's fire is always going to be burning. But why give them more firewood to throw on it? If you can't see how perception of baiting causes this, there is no point in trying to explain it to you. I believe to best protect what we have, we have to be very cognizant of our actions and the perceptions of them by those outside of hunting. While our ethics as hunters may differ on some things, the ultimate question is if what we are doing hurts our cause more from the outside view looking in? It's my opinion, but bait (right or wrong) hurts the perception of hunters from the outside.
Optics matter but thinking making changes like this will appease those with negative connotations of our outdoor activities is in my opinion naive at best. Hunters and fishermen/women are, as a rule, greater stewards of the land and resources than the people you’re trying to appease will ever be. A big portion of my hunting has been in a unit that hasn’t allowed baiting in quite some time, so further regulations across more of the state will have little to no affect on my activities personally but that doesn’t really change my opinion much. Outdoors people would do well to stick together and protect our activities rather than divide up into factions and turn on each other while the anti’s stay strong together. In my eyes someone who dumps a half a grain shovel full of corn to stop an animal for a clean effective shot is no worse than someone who crows about their way being the “right way”. If there was scientific fact based in dumping that little bit of corn causing damage to populations by spreading disease more than food plots, water holes, or just populations yarding up in the winter time under normal farming practices than that’s a different conversation but the anti’s are going to look at your actions as murder whether you do it by spot and stalk, by studying normal travel patterns/bedding and feeding areas, or if you dump a half cup of corn under a tree. Make no mistake about that.
It does for sure but there’s been 0 cases in 2B . 0LOL. Wealthy Red River valley ag money talks.
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"money" = politically well connected
Yeathat’s right - the CWD that triggered the ban occurred in MN across the Red River if I recall correctly