Hunting, and all its awesomness to the world.

The subject came up while I was at international cinema, and the show was about autism and animal rights. Then I get this text from my awesome friend Annie Smoot, that said I got you a drink from sip it. So I go out side the theater to talk to her and get the fantastic drink she got me! But I was explaining to her what the movie was about, and thats how the animal rights convo started.....
    Hunting is one subject that I do care deeply about, so this entry will be mostly toward Annie, but to yall that don't approve of hunting.  First off I love hunting because it is incredibly fun, its a challenge, most the time with a choice group of people, bonding time, you get to hike around and experience gods country first hand, its camping, a lot of recreation involved, and most importantly hunting  is a means of population control.  (example that deals with hunting, but not by humans and is a completely different subject all together, but people stay with me!)

    Wolves in yellowstone

 The last grey wolf in YS was spotted around 1930 and were not there until the reintroduction of the Grey Wolf in 1995. But while they were gone, there was an over population of basically every animal there. Lets take the Majestic Rocky Mtn Elk, Wolves pack hunt these, but when there wasn't wolves there, the number of Elk increased very rapidly, and with that many Elk, they all grazed the crap out of the place, until there was hardly any sort of plants there. When there isnt plants, other species start to die out.
  So basically I'm trying to say that hunters do the same thing, thats why there is only so many tags out there for hunting the different types of animals. Population control!! But hunters do ALOT more for the environment than "I hate killing" peta, Animal rights people. Thats because most of the money that goes to supporting and keeping up our environment comes from hunting. here are some numbers:

** $746 million — Annual amount of money spent by hunters in the United States on licenses and public land access fees alone. Sportsmen’s licensing revenues account for more than half of all funding for state natural resource agencies

** $300 million — Additional monies contributed to wildlife conservation every year by the more than 10,000 private hunting-advocate organizations, like the National Wild Turkey Federation, Ducks Unlimited, and the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation

** $4.2 billion — Amount of money sportsmen have contributed to conservation through a 10% federal excise taxes on firearms, ammunition, and gear since the 1937 Pittman-Robertson Act established the tax. Millions of acres of public-use land has been purchased, preserved, and maintained with this money.

Read more: Right to Hunt vs. Animal Rights http://dailyreckoning.com/right-to-hunt-vs-animal-rights/#ixzz2Da7Q4tFo
So besides helping the environment with all the money hunting offers refuge from the day to day struggles and is a way to stay physically fit, while bringing the fantastic, incredible, yummy foods home. Hunters love the land more than anyone, thats why we want to keep it as clean and kept up as possible, and if you are worried about ALL the animals dying... only 7% OF THE US hunts, while 67% agrees with it.

   Well here are my thoughts of hunting and how its awesome to do, and its very beneficial to our environment and economy.