Elkcrazy8

Instead of looking back at the 50's 60's and 70's. Look back further to the turn of the century when many animals were almost hunted to extinction, and for what, for $. The driving factor is still there as it was way back when. I beleive that we are better off because we have developed management plans, refuges, etc. $ will be the driving factor behind everything that is done. That has and never will change. What happens now is the fact that hunters have become more interested in what happens to the wildlife. We have states that have rebounded their herds in the light of advertisement and promotions. That is a project in itself. I am glad that I can still hike into the mountains in my woolrich, cook on my colman stove, and not see anyone for days, and have a greater opportunity to harvest an animal than people did a century ago.