01-02-2020, 06:24 PM
(01-02-2020, 05:41 PM)hollodero Wrote: Alright. I guess my question had a bit of a bad cultural background. Meaning, we probably still picture an American as someone shooting a thousand buffalos from a train just because yee-ha. Which certainly is the most unfair cliché. But I don't know, it always seems some rather just hunt for the thrill of it. Just wanted to be sure :)
Also, deer is delicious.
Well, the American bison massacres of the 19th century were done in the name of the railroads more than anything. But overhunting in the early days of this country brought us to the point where the wapiti, pronghorn, whitetail deer, and wild turkey were all on the brink of extinction as well. At the turn of the 20th century, all of these animals existed in only a tiny portion of the ranges they inhabited prior to the arrival of Europeans. However, thanks to the work of naturalists during that time (including Theodore Roosevelt) and the implementation of the NA model, we now have larger populations of whitetail and turkey than ever before. Wapiti have been reintroduced into many places (though now they are no longer the subspecies that used to be in these places). There are places where we actually run into the issue of not enough hunters to properly manage the numbers of deer and turkey.
Anyway, I'll stop the derailment of this thread with my wildlife conservation discussion, now. lol
"A great democracy has got to be progressive, or it will soon cease to be either great or a democracy..." - TR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
