...of its historical range. The Conservation Commission has determined that, based on considerations of human safety and risk to livestock, it is undesirable to have a breeding population of mountain lions in Missouri. Therefore, the Department of Conservation will not encourage the species to reestablish itself in the state. Despite rumors, the Department has never stocked mountain lions and will not do so in the future. Although mountain lions, sometimes called cougars, pumas, panthers or catamounts, were common in Missouri and elsewhere in the Midwest prior to European settlement, they were eradicated during the 19th century. As the countryside was settled and developed, the large predators were shot. People also killed almost all of the deer, the mountain lions’ primary food source. The last native wild mountain lion in Missouri was killed in 1927. They were extirpated from Iowa by 1867, Nebraska by 1890, Kansas by 1904 and from Wisconsin by 1908. Though populations of mountain lions survived in remote mountainous terrain in western states, no verifiable evidence exists to suggest that they...
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...Savageless Many would argue that hunting sends us back to our primitive days when we lived only on the land and everything was used for money. It is actually quite the opposite of what most believe. Hunting is a way of life for some people and the only way we know how to get by. Hunting is by no means savage and is vital to everyday life. Without the hunters in the country we would be over run by animal populations and would have many predatory animals living in suburb communities putting our wellbeing at stake. Many people do not realize how much hunting indirectly influences their way of life. The meat in the grocery store was made in a more savage way than hunting. Slaughter houses are highly inhumane towards aimals. Hunting at least gives the animal free will to do whatever it wants in the wild. At a slaughter house animals have no hope to live any amount of time, but in the wild the animals are able to experience their natural habitat and be happy roaming the woods as they please. Many of the people who are against hunting are not even vegetarians and eat meat from the store and they are completely ignorant to the fact that what they are eating is killed in a horrible savage way. I am in no way saying that eating meat from the store is a bad thing to do, but only that venison is a more humane way of eating. Not only is it more humane its healthier than proccessed meat and has a less chance of carrying harmful bacteria gained from meat proccessors. Not only does the meat...
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...Adventures in Fugawiland Fugawiland: a land full of hardworking hunters, dedicated mothers, learning children, many animals, and lots and lots of land. Fugawiland is in between the border of Lake Superior and the Highlands. There were 25 different sites in Fugawiland, but we were only given information on 10 different sites. The areas in which the citizens of Fugawiland lived permanently were either by the shore or by a river in sites F, Y, R (shore), P, I, W, and C (river). About twice as many people lived in sites by the shoreline compared to people who lived by the river. Site F contained the largest amount of Fugawilanders, about 45 people. A way to estimate the number of people living at a site is to multiply the number of houses by five because the huts in Fugawiland likely housed 4 to 6 people-leaving the average number of people per hut at five. Sites Y and R were tied for the second to most sites with the largest amount of people living I them with about 40 people in each site. In the sites that were located closer to a river, there was much less people. Site I had the most people living there, about 25. In each of the sites by the river and shore where the people lived there were only 2-4 graves per site. Most likely, the majority of the people got buried at site X, the largest site that archaeologists dug up in all of Fugawiland, located in the plains. This is because site X contained the most amount of graves and bundle burials-19 graves and 40 bundle burials...
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...1. All members and guests shall possess a valid hunting and/or fishing license. 2. All members and guests shall comply with all Virginia, Federal, and local regulations. 3. While on premises, all members and guests shall maintain safe gun handling practices, including never shooting in the direction of people, buildings, or livestock. 4. No member or guest shall engage in hunting or shooting practices while under the influence of alcohol or illegal drugs. 5. All gates shall be left as found any damage to roads caused by members or guests will be repaired by club. Any direct property damage will be paid for by offender. 6. Members and guest shall exercise due care to prevent fires; and shall not cause or permit damage to fences, crops, trees, farm animals, buildings, or equipment; and shall not commit or permit waste, damage, or injury and shall not conduct or permit any illegal activity on leased premises. 7. No nails or spikes or any other objects will be permanently driven into any tree on leased premises. Removable ground blinds, tree stands, are allowed. 8. All property brought on to the leased premises by members or guests, and any litter, especially cigarette butts, and shell casings shall be removed from the leased premises by member or guest responsible. 9. All members are responsible for any actions of guests they bring onto the leased premise. 10. All guests must be accompanied by a member and shall pay a guest fee of 20 dollars a day. All guests' reservations...
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...A true redneck will wear, a skin tight white tank top with “wranglers” boot cut blue jeans and “Cody James” boots. For example, Bill wore his skin-tight tank top with Wranglers boot cuts blue jeans and Cody James boots for a job interview with JCPenny. Josh said, “Dad the dress code for the interview is business professional” Bill replied “Ayy true redneck only knows about one dress code, ayn' it’s this here.” A true redneck does not care about his or her dress code. They only have one dress code, and they will not change their dress...
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...in front of your car. You try to stop but it’s too late, you slam into a white-tailed deer. This happens to over 26 thousand people per year. This is because the deer population is huge in New Jersey. The deer hunt limits should be increased because deer provoke accidents, decimate crops, and transmit diseases. To begin, the quantity of car accidents provoked by deer continues to increase. The 2016 New Jersey deer population estimate was 101,000 which does not include the 26,800 deer that are involved in car accidents or the 41,439 deer that are killed during the hunting season according to the state news website, www.nj.com . In New Jersey, you can only kill one buck per day and the season is only five days during the month of December according to the New Jersey Regulations website (eregulations.com/newjersey/). This means, if the State increases the amount of deer a hunter can kill per day, the population would reduce which in turn would make the roads safer at night for drivers....
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...Whitetail deer typically are found more in the mountains, but they are gradually making their way through the plains. Whitetail are more aggressive than mule deer, the mule deer population is still at a high number but steadily going down because of the whitetail deer. The further west you go in America the whitetail deer population decreases. Whitetail deer vary in color from reddish brown to grayish brown. Whitetail buck can weigh anywhere from 100 to 300 pounds and a female can weigh 75 to 200 pounds. They can stand up to 7 feet tall. In the winter months deer and antelope shed their antlers and grow a new set annually. They are more active in the mornings and late afternoon. A white tailed deer is found near the bottom...
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...produce enough food for all of the animals. Animals starve and are forced to move to other locations, like cities or towns. “When areas of nature become too over populated with certain animals, like deer, the animals suffer from starvation” (Navajo Code Talkers). Also, when animals are overpopulated in an area, diseases can...
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...Deer hunting is something that a lot of people like to do. It is a time for guys and gals to relax and listen to the outdoors all around. There are too many deer and too many accidents in the midwest. Deer population could be reduced by having a longer shotgun season, so the population can reduce the vehicle accident cost, medical cost, by establishing new ideas on how motorists can avoid vehicle/deer accidents . In 1997 the Virginia Department Of Transportation recorded around 600 crashes between vehicles and deer. Then in 1998 it jumped up to 4000. insurance and law enforcement officials said the actual car deer collisions could be somewhere between 10 and 20 thousand in the United States. Insurance industry estimates there are half a million car deer accidents annually. The average cost an insurance company pays per claim is 2000. (HUNTING TO SOLUTION THE DEER BOOM PG2) In one year 2012, there were 1.29 million deer car collisions and they cost about $4 billion on car repairs. the average costs for the collisions are around $3,305. In this article from Insurance Journal, it states that vehicle deer collisions from july 2011 until june 30,...
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...It is nearly Fall. The days are getting shorter and the weather is getting cooler and the rut has already begun. Very soon, those trophy bucks will begin the yearly task of fighting and mating. Get your gear together, scout your deer stand, and site your rifle. What's that? This is the year for your new scope? You better get on it. Here are some ideas to start your search. Buying a riflescope can be a difficult task. With all the available options, it can be difficult to choose a good riflescope with the right specifications to fit your budget. Some of the things you should look for in a riflescope include: 1. Magnification - choose a fixed power riflescope if your subjects are steady, and a variable power one for moving subjects. 2. Objective diameter - the larger the diameter, the more light can pass through. This provides a clearer view and longer hunting hours. 3....
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...There is a disease that can cause fatal results in deer or similar animals. This disease is called Chronic Wasting Disease. It is also sometimes called CWD. If a deer contracts CWD the results can be fatal. The disease affects the brain by breaking it down and eventually killing the animal. People should know about it because it is many states. A deer will display many signs that it is infected. The disease is spread from deer to deer and can be somewhat prevented. There may be a possibility for humans to get CWD. The deer is a very sought after animal in the U.S. and people should be aware of how fatal CWD is. Chronic Wasting Disease or CWD, is a disease that effects deer, elk, and moose. CWD results in “characteristic spongy degeneration”...
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...Mountain Lion The topic I chose to research is a mountain lion because I find them to be an interesting living mammal. I have three cats at home and wanted to research the correlation that the mountain lion and cats share. Mountain lions affect society in way that they are an endangered set of mammals because they are known to attack people and children. They once roamed nearly all of the United States. They were prized by hunters and despised by farmers and ranchers who suffered livestock losses at their hands. This has changed my view of science by looking at the mountain lion in a biological, physiological, psychological way. Anatomy The mountain lion is the largest cat native to North America. Their head is small and they have a short and round face while their neck and body are elongated and narrow. The mountain lion is that their hind legs are longer than their front legs in which they utilize for running and jumping. The mountain lion has a long spinal column, which provides an increase lumbar flexation when they run. Adult mountain lions are a plain colored cat. Their color can vary from grey to dark brown to tawny and buff cinnamon red depending on the geographical location that they reside in. The tail is long, cylindrical with lots of hair. The muzzles are black located on the sides. Their upper lip, chin, and throat are whitish. The tail is the same color as body, except for the tip, which is either dark brown or black. Male mountain lions are usually larger than...
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...total of over 700 hundred trees were removed. During hydraulic fracturing which is a process in which fractures in rocks below the earth's surface are opened and widened by injecting chemicals and liquids at high pressure to extract natural gas ("hydraulic fracturing," 2012). During this process many of the trees and shrubs showed signs of being affected by the process. The trees started to brown early, they stared weltering and fell to the ground earlier then they should have. One would think that due to drilling and the release of natural gases that you wouldn’t find signs of wildlife. That’s not the case with the white tail deer. The white tail deer require the intake of salt and other minirals especially during the summer and spring months. The water coming from the gas site had a high concentration of minerals that the deer liked. That’s the one unqie thing about deer is they are an adaptive species. The black bear population did see a slight decrease in activity around the drill site. According to the CIA world fact book the U.S. has the highest demand for natural gas with 683,300,000,000 cubic meters of gas in 2010, with the European Union using 515,000,000,000 and Russia using 414,100,000,000. That round off the top three comsumers of natural gas users and those numbers really jumps out if you never thought about the total consumption of natural gas usage around the world. When it comes to the demand for natural gas it depends on the time of year. During the summer months...
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...Definitions, Claims, Support & Warrants and Artistotle & Toulmin Assignment Argument One: For deer hunting to be made illegal in Illinois Main claim - Hunting should be made illegal in Illinois it seems to be a unsafe and ineffective form of recreation . Key terms in the main claim - Unsafe = The fact that there is over 100 hunting deaths in the United States every year Illegal = Forbidden by law Recreation = Activity done for enjoyment when one is not working Support: 3 reasons/sub-claims- Hunting endangers the whole entire community at times, not just the willing hunters Studies have shown that car and deer collisions increase during hunting season. (Reasoning for this is because the deer are scared in the woods and run wildly right into unseen traffic) Hunting is unethical coming from the animals rights Rebuttals: give two - It is wrong because we are not letting nature do its job and letting it run its course like it should (whether it be sick or starving, It doesn't matter) It is not morally correct to go out killing and wounding animals Concession: give one - I think that we could compromise and make there be a specific laws on how many we could kill a year… How I plan to appeal to the audience using: - Ethos (how I will get my audience to trust me) - 1. I will talk about all of the stories and facts that goes wrong during the hunting accidents to show my accuracy to gain trust in people - Logos (what sort of evidence, reasoning,rational...
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...An Unnecessary and Cruel Sport Claudia Santos DeVry University An Unnecessary and Cruel Sport According to nature, the food chain begins and ends with a prey and its predator. Hunting is also one of the laws made by nature to balance the population on the earth's surface and it is through hunting, that the circle of life is complete. But an excess of anything is considered injurious, and this applies for hunting as well. Although it was a crucial part of humans’ survival 100,000 years ago, hunting is now nothing more than a violent form of recreation that the vast majority of hunters do not need for subsistence. Today men practice hunting as nothing but one of those among a list of hobbies, because there is no requirement for predation by humans in modern times. Sport Hunting should be banned because it can be dangerous, cruel and it contributes to the extinction of animal species all over the world. Many believe in hunting as a hobby, because it serves as a great outdoor experience. It might even be considered as a good exercise, on a day out! The truth is that Hunting is, by its’ nature, a dangerous sport. Hundreds of individuals armed with long range weapons through the woods are a perfect formula for a tragedy. This is especially true when the average hunter only shoots one of two days a year. Hunting accidents destroy property and injure or kill cats, dogs, horses, hikers and other hunters. According to International Hunter Education Association, about 1,000 people...
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