Tree Huggers all hate hunting but doesnt hunting really go along with what they stand for,, right?

Please no jackasses and/or treehuggers..Tree Huggers all hate hunting but doesnt hunting really go along with what they stand for,, right?
You got it. If it were not for hunters and fishermen who started the conservation movement over a hundred years ago there would be a lot fewer trees for the modern one to hug.Tree Huggers all hate hunting but doesnt hunting really go along with what they stand for,, right?
How can hunting go along with what they stand for, when they usually don鈥檛 know what they stand for?





Tree huggers like bunny huggers have good intentions usually but just don鈥檛 have the education and knowledge on the subject their fighting for. Driving a steel spike in a tree has killed and maimed people at saw mills and it didn鈥檛 save the tree.





I hugged a tree yesterday; it was a huge Sitka spruce tree about 500 years old and deader than hell from spruce bark beetles. That one tree had over 4 cords of firewood in it and was over 6 feet wide at the stump. When I find old dead trees like that I wonder why the tree huggers don鈥檛 invest money or time in reducing these beetles that are devastating forests. Guess its easier to just spike the tree or more fun to camp out in its branches to try to stop a logger. Hunting organizations plant trees and do invest money to maintain healthy habitats. I guess that shows who puts their money where their mouth is.
You would think that they would understand that hunting helps with conservation and keeping the animals in that given area healthy. If animals over populate an area, then the area and the animals would suffer greatly- the land would do horribly, diseases more common, confrontations with people would be worse, etc....





** Hunting and conservation has and will ALWAYS be intertwined. Without one, you can NOT have the other. **





And some of them tree-huggers try to say that hunting makes animals go extinct- that's not hunting- that's poaching. Hunters take only what we need, nothing more, nothing less. Poachers will take all they want, and they don't have a care in the world.
I like treehuggers,they give the chain saw something soft to bite into to line up the cuts. Actually hunters do more physically and financially for the environment than most treehugger groups could possibly do buy a huge margin,and we as hunters make that choice. We pay for wilderness programs,game management,habitat reclamation and preservation,through fees and taxes on what we do. Very few tax dollars from the average citizen actually go to these programs. Most hunters are very low impact to the environment,are concerned with not just game animals but habitat conservation and making things better.The hunting section isn't out protesting,but if we ever did watch out,because hunters are the real 'Silent Majority'; when it comes to numbers. Yes,treehuggers make news now and then because they act childishly,some actually have good intent,but most don't have the background and technical or experience based information to do what hunters have to every time in the field.


Back when I was in college we called them ';Granolas';
In Germany, when the Green Party was getting started, some of the more conservative-minded politicians would point out that ';The Green tree has Red roots.'; That was shorthand for saying that environmentalists are, quite often, Marxist socialists. And let's not forget that hunting is the most commonly cited reason for we Americans to own firearms. Abolish hunting, and that will make civilian disarmament easier. Look to Formerly Great Britain for an example of this.





Disarmament is slavery.
Look at the two choices for us human meat eaters.





Option 1: A hunter kills an animal that has lived free and roamed around in nature all it's life, eating natural foods and living it's life as nature or God intended.





Option 2: An animal that lives it's whole life on a factory farm, most often in overcrowded conditions where it can't move freely, living in it's own waste much of the time, and fed with stuff made by chemical companies, is slaughtered by people who don't care at all about the comfort and well-being of the animal beyond making sure it'll be good meat to sell.





To me, hunting is by far the most ethical choice.
I unfortunatly went to college with a high percentage of treehuggers or Crunchies. Here is the break down:





The only one of them that really care is a core group of dyke lesbian types that don't fully understand what they are protesting but they think it would be cool to screw the world over the way their idiot hippie parents did.





Then you have the hotter chicks that are looking for a place to belong.





Followed by all of the guys in the movement, they see hot chicks and think, ';Well hell if it is going to get me laid I will protest for anything';.





And there you have the whole treehugger movement in a nutshell. Sometimes Lesbians are not awsome and look what it can lead to.
Not really. Hunters are conservationists. Tree-huggers aren't for protecting the environment, they just don't want anybody to have any use from it, except in whatever their approved way might be. The very concept of a tree that's dying of old age and needs to be cut is not part of their thinking.
I'm a gun toting lover of all. I believe we need to protect our resources. I also believe that hunting and fishing is good. My problem is with those folks that kill for just the ';sport'; of it. If you already have that 200 lb white marlin hanging on the wall and you ate the meat, you do not need to kill another one just to hang on the wall.





There are times that controlled hunts to protect a species is good, but just for the kill is not right in my book.





I will keep on hunting, fishing and loving the outdoors. I also photograph a lot of my game. I hang the photo and they just continue for another day.
Most tree huggers make no logical sense in their beliefs anyway. It's bad for a logger to cut down a tree but they'll drive metal spikes in a tree that still kill it and may possibly kill the workers too.





Valuing human life less than wood. Makes no sense to me.
Hunters and fisherman do more to help the enviroment than most tofu eating, tree hugging dirt people do. Hunters and fishermen pay for licenses, which goes to fund state conservation projects. Animal rights and enviromental protests do nothing to help fund real conservation.
im a hunter and i am a tree huger


let me put it this way if the forests are destroyed there will be no hunting because if there are no trees there will be no habitat for the animals and the animals will move out and/or die off.
i assuming you're alluding to the ';renewable resources'; angle...





they might counter that if you kill the animal, it can't reproduce anymore, whereas seeds are plentiful.





solution: only kill new mother animals. :-D
yah you have to look at the organizations. Ones like ducks unlimted or phesants forever are busy RE introducing species back into there old territorys.


All peta ever does is spend money on hate adds and pet euthinasia
I'm a hunter and I consider myself an environmentalist, conservationist and a protector of wildlife and wild land.
Who cares about them?
yeah, it shows how stupid and ignorant they are.