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Montana Launches Hunting Ethics Campaign Following Conflicts Last Season
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<blockquote data-quote="Vollmer" data-source="post: 38175" data-attributes="member: 8014"><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><img src="http://www.fieldandstream.com/sites/fieldandstream.com/files/styles/article_image_full/public/201507/bull%20elk.jpg?itok=48kLD3I8" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><em>Photo courtesy of <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/46327150@N06/15294710299/in/photolist-pixovH-e54M95-dCAhKt-doGjWt-oGN6qQ-rCSFv6-9jF663-9nZ3DM-72VrNb-2EjbK3-mmq2VQ-6WHcj7-2Efewt-e15amD-2Ejbfb-9N9uRM-47PDR1-qcBZrC-e5ZqB6-jToqa2-9eY3dN-d17Eih-cAUMv9-f8ZJLQ-QXabt-dCFGnm-8rPji9-anRHry-aFgPTr-anNWzM-anNWgP-pULu7y-anNY7Z-pDSUKy-ptikaE-8K4zC3-fdtBzo-fdekPT-7dVGVt-71DKBF-71DKFD-oDjxzc-9WJt69-7CFwMB-vTSx7B-oBhWqX-chJ3XU-doGjo8-qPbHzz-pX5FgD" target="_blank">Buffalo Outdoor Center/Flickr</a></em></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">After two highly publicized conflicts involving elk, hunters, and landowners last fall in Montana, the state’s Department of Fish, Wildlife, and Parks Citizen Advisory Committee (FWP) has organized a campaign—replete with a website, a Facebook page, and a forthcoming 30-second public-service announcements—to promote hunting ethics.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><a href="http://flatheadbeacon.com/2015/07/12/hunting-ethics-campaign-started-in-montana/" target="_blank"><em>The Flathead Beacon</em> reports</a> that the committee hopes the campaign, called Hunt Right, will encouraging hunters to act responsibly and ethically in the field to reduce future conflicts. With $5,000 in seed money from FWP and another $5,000 from grants and donations, the movement launched a <a href="https://www.mtoutdoorlegacy.org/donate/hunters-ethics-campaign" target="_blank">website</a> and plans to ramp up its message via radio, print, billboards, and online ads before the September archery season gets underway.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">Last season, <a href="http://www.bozemandailychronicle.com/news/wildlife/hunters-repeat-townsend-area-elk-slaughter/article_945a8672-7a85-11e4-8da4-ef0ac73cbdd5.html" target="_blank">two incidents</a> left a sour taste in the mouths of hunters, outfitters, and landowners. In October, hunters shot into a herd of 500 elk moving among public and private land—including some hunters who shot from vehicles or phoned other hunters when the elk were “cornered.” A month later, on Thanksgiving morning, a group of hunters used vehicles to herd and shoot elk.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">Mike England, a member of the citizen’s advisory committee, said every hunting situation is complex, and that’s why the Hunt Right campaign isn’t aimed at any specific group of hunters. “We decided that everybody needs to know what the right thing is,” he said.</span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Vollmer, post: 38175, member: 8014"] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Georgia][IMG]http://www.fieldandstream.com/sites/fieldandstream.com/files/styles/article_image_full/public/201507/bull%20elk.jpg?itok=48kLD3I8[/IMG] [I]Photo courtesy of [URL="https://www.flickr.com/photos/46327150@N06/15294710299/in/photolist-pixovH-e54M95-dCAhKt-doGjWt-oGN6qQ-rCSFv6-9jF663-9nZ3DM-72VrNb-2EjbK3-mmq2VQ-6WHcj7-2Efewt-e15amD-2Ejbfb-9N9uRM-47PDR1-qcBZrC-e5ZqB6-jToqa2-9eY3dN-d17Eih-cAUMv9-f8ZJLQ-QXabt-dCFGnm-8rPji9-anRHry-aFgPTr-anNWzM-anNWgP-pULu7y-anNY7Z-pDSUKy-ptikaE-8K4zC3-fdtBzo-fdekPT-7dVGVt-71DKBF-71DKFD-oDjxzc-9WJt69-7CFwMB-vTSx7B-oBhWqX-chJ3XU-doGjo8-qPbHzz-pX5FgD"]Buffalo Outdoor Center/Flickr[/URL][/I] [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Georgia]After two highly publicized conflicts involving elk, hunters, and landowners last fall in Montana, the state’s Department of Fish, Wildlife, and Parks Citizen Advisory Committee (FWP) has organized a campaign—replete with a website, a Facebook page, and a forthcoming 30-second public-service announcements—to promote hunting ethics.[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Georgia][URL="http://flatheadbeacon.com/2015/07/12/hunting-ethics-campaign-started-in-montana/"][I]The Flathead Beacon[/I] reports[/URL] that the committee hopes the campaign, called Hunt Right, will encouraging hunters to act responsibly and ethically in the field to reduce future conflicts. With $5,000 in seed money from FWP and another $5,000 from grants and donations, the movement launched a [URL="https://www.mtoutdoorlegacy.org/donate/hunters-ethics-campaign"]website[/URL] and plans to ramp up its message via radio, print, billboards, and online ads before the September archery season gets underway.[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Georgia]Last season, [URL="http://www.bozemandailychronicle.com/news/wildlife/hunters-repeat-townsend-area-elk-slaughter/article_945a8672-7a85-11e4-8da4-ef0ac73cbdd5.html"]two incidents[/URL] left a sour taste in the mouths of hunters, outfitters, and landowners. In October, hunters shot into a herd of 500 elk moving among public and private land—including some hunters who shot from vehicles or phoned other hunters when the elk were “cornered.” A month later, on Thanksgiving morning, a group of hunters used vehicles to herd and shoot elk.[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Georgia]Mike England, a member of the citizen’s advisory committee, said every hunting situation is complex, and that’s why the Hunt Right campaign isn’t aimed at any specific group of hunters. “We decided that everybody needs to know what the right thing is,” he said.[/FONT][/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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