We don’t have any pupfish here, but we have an assortment of hoodlums who practice their gun shooting while both drunk and sober, on every road sign they find (“Scene of the Crime,” HCN, 4/15/19). They also shoot every living thing in sight, including bald eagles and deer out of season. They can’t read “no trespassing” signs and consider it their inalienable right to hunt anything, anywhere, at any time. One year in jail for a pupfish? What about everything else these so-called citizens destroy?

Carolyn Munn
Hayfork, California

This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline Fish rights.

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