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I love how they whisper to the camera in their heated blind on a game preserve while talking about hunting hard in the beautiful outdoors only to shoot an animal that cannot get away while talking about the elation of the hunt and working toward conservation.
Yes it all CAN be a bit corny on those shows I agree. I hunt with a gun and a bow but don't get into the shows.
Looking at the bigger picture DO NOT confuse conservation with leftist/progressive tree hugging/ELF/ALF/wilderness absolute preservation.
Conservation of game species is about maintaining a healthy population for future... USE. Regardless the method of harvest. While a hunter works towards conservation they maintain the hunting land for optimum growth of their targeted species. This almost always results in a more biologically diverse area that in turn supports a larger variety of plant and animal species per acre. It is in the hunter's best interest to make the habitat better so they can see more and better game animals. (deer, quail, elk, ducks, pheasant, etc. etc...)
Preservation (or whatever more appropriate word) is locking up the resource and keeping it just the way it is without human intervention. Studies show land that is locked up tends not to be as bilogically diverse as land that is WISELY managed. Key word WISE...
A hunter who does nothing but plant his entire acreage in deer food plots or crops is not WISELY managing the resource and will in the long run suffer from missmanagement. Same goes for the tree huggers who demand that a plot of land be human intervention free...