How Sportsmen Saved the World: The Unsung Conservation Efforts of Hunters and Anglers
Reassessing the role outdoorsmen have played in preserving our environmental heritage From the author’s preface This book’s thesis is simple and logical: Faced with human development’s ever-increasing demands upon habitat, wildlife today needs advocates more than ever before. When wildlife advocates work together, wildlife wins; when they bicker, wildlife loses. Outdoor sports—hunting and, to a lesser extent, angling—are receiving ever-increasing levels of criticism from other elements of the wildlife advocacy community, often based on the apparently obvious fact that these activities are harmful to wildlife. This “apparently obvious” fact is quite incorrect. The historical record shows that North American sportsmen have been at the forefront of almost every significant advance in the protection of the continent’s wildlife. These efforts have led to a system of wildlife and habitat management superior to that in any other region in the world.