Talked yourself into a circle there Blueboy.
Just a little while back you claimed the people who were seeing more bucks were merely seeing small inferior bucks saved by AR
Wrong again sport, BT didn't ask about seeing more , buck he ask about more big buck.
Talked yourself into a circle there Blueboy.
Just a little while back you claimed the people who were seeing more bucks were merely seeing small inferior bucks saved by AR
That is because I agree that eliminating trophy hunting is not an urgent issue .most species will survive in spite of trophy hunting, it is just that the trophies will be smaller and the species overall may be smaller. That was the point Harris made in the last paragraph of the article.
The time scale is one reason that most wildlife departments managing hunting harvests simply count the heads each year and decide how many to let hunters bag without thinking about genes. The most popular method of regulating hunting—restricting legal game to males with a minimum antler size—results in populations overrun with females and inferior males, which is ultimately no service to hunters. "The hunters wish for animals with large antlers and large horns, and yet their actions are making that harder to achieve," says Richard Harris, a conservation biologist in Montana. As a hunter, Harris knows that the outcome of this trend will satisfy no one, the Teddy Roosevelts of the next generation least of all.