RE: Thermal Imaging - the end of hunting as we know it?
This is agood tool for wildlife management people to study deer populations in order to make better decisions about license quotas, management policy, etc. I do think it might be a good way to help recover downed animals. I'd be for that too.
You're right though - if it got into the hands of violators it would be a bad thing. I like the idea of conservation officers having this technology to catch poachers.