A story in “Heard around the West”
disappointed me. As an avid hunter, environmentalist and military
officer, I found that the piece, which derisively described the
buffoonery of “hunters” in connection with an
anti-poaching operation in a Western state, demonstrated one of the
fundamental weaknesses of the increasingly ineffective
environmental movement.
Attitudes of many
environmentalists alienate moderate members of the general public
and prevent cooperation and consensus among like-minded groups. The
lawbreakers in the story were poachers, not hunters. The person who
wrote the piece should have enough maturity and awareness to make
that distinction. The end results of this and similar barbs by
environmentalists towards ethical hunters are significant barriers
to cooperation between these two groups, both of which have very
compatible goals.
Chris Bailey Valdosta,
Georgia
This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline Enviros: Lose the ‘tude.
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