RE: Do we REALLY view Poaching as a "crime"?
I don't think anyone has a problem with someone feeding their family. But there are ways to legally harvest animals to feed the family. If they are landowners they can get free tags for everyone in their family. I think the problem is the scum that drives down the roads looking for big bucks and shoots them, cuts off their heads and leaves the rest to waste. Happens alot here. If you are poaching on someone elses property you are not only poaching but then you will be trespassing (breaking another law) to recover the animal. Poaching and trespassing laws need changed to be much more stringent then we must prosicute, prosicute, prosicute!