Hunter Education programs have always taught beginning outdoor enthusiast the
practice of firearm and hunting safety.
Today, the Hunter Education program is more than just safety and is directed at more than just hunters. The program has been
expanded to produce responsible, knowledgeable, and involved citizens – young men and women who understand the importance of complying with hunting laws and behaving ethically.
The program teaches young outdoor enthusiast about the importance of wildlife management, and differences between preservation vs. conservation in wildlife management practices. Hunter Education strives to instill responsibility, improve skills, and knowledge. Responsible, ethical behavior and personal involvement are both essential to the survival of ethical hunting as well as wildlife conservation.
Inyo County Fish and Wildlife Officers will be offering a Hunter Education course for
Bishop Middle School students. The course will be given at the Bishop Home Street
Middle School from Feb 6 th through Feb 17 th (excluding weekends) from 3:30 to 5:30 pm
for a total of 10 days.
If you are interested, you just need to log on to
https://wildlife.ca.gov/Hunter-Education
and sign up for the class.
The class is free to all students.
Inyo County –Bishop Home Street Middle School. from 3:30 to 5:30 PM
Contact Warden Shane Dishion at (760) 920-7593
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If ever there was a non sequitur it is “ethical hunting.”
Killing one of God’s creatures for pleasure is presumptively unethical, in my opinion.
What’s your stance on abortion?
I don’t quite see the connection, Slopeshaper, but as long as you ask, I’ll make one:
If I was an unborn baby, I would not want to be destroyed for someone’s convenience.
Just like if I was a deer, I would not want to be destroyed for someone’s pleasure.
Whether it is hunting or abortion, the destroyed being doesn’t get a vote.
And both are therefore unethical.
Thank you.
How about if I eat Gods creature. Is that all right Elmer?
Yes.
A long time ago God turned us on to agriculture including the domestication of animals for that very purpose.
Thank you.
Thoughts like this go nowhere, just as preaching abstinence to teenagers. They’re going to do it, so we should enlighten them how to do it sustainably.
I did not say people shouldn’t hunt, Pine.
I took issue with the phrase “ethical hunting.”
In my opinion hunting is presumptively unethical because its purpose is the destruction of a sentient being without its consent and solely for the hunter’s pleasure.
Thank you.
Agree with Elmer Fudd here.
Hunting originally meant to be food and survival for the family, not for what it turned into for sport, especially for some and how they so-call “hunt”.. ..getting their Elk tag and sitting outside the gates in their truck with a 6 pack of Bud and waiting for the Elk to leave the alfalfa field to shoot and kill, or going to “scout” an area, usually a campground where Deer have become domesticated during the Spring and Summer months with campers feeding them, but come late September, again waiting in their trucks with their beer hoping to see a Buck appear and come up to them hoping for a snack.
Nowdays, even worse…many “doing it only so as to take a “selfie” with a dead Buck to post on facebook and show their friends of their hunting “prowess and ability” .
And who can forget the photos of the rich folk, ala the trump boys, that wouldn’t know how to survive a day and night outside Mar-A-Lago, or where to go or how to pull a trigger of a rifle without a “hired guide” showing them how to do it…but there they are, smiling, along with their bodyguards for the camera holding a tail or a severed head of a dead Endangered Species in Africa, and then daddy trump somehow spinning-it into some type of 2nd Amendment issue hoping for the NRA vote and their money..
Nope….hunting ain’t what it used to be…not in this day and age.
Thanks David – you nailed it!
I never understood why grown men driving around in 4WDs, armed with high-powered rifles with scopes and offing deer minding their own business just for jollies are considered macho manly men, while those who just like being around and enjoying the wonder of God’s creations are derided as some kind of pansies.
And who but a wacko shoots a giraffe for fun (like the Trumpkins do)?
Elmer Fudd
Maybe not so much “against ” hunting and the way it USED to be ,but how it’s gotten to be for so many the past 20 years or so.
Like you mention, the “macho and manly ” element to it.
I used to be a hunter back in the mid 80’s, but a hunting trip included a day and night before the season checking things out…on foot…and opening day, a long hike and walk getting into an area.
And no camera or smart-phone in hand, or plans to facebook post if I happen to bag a Buck.
Until one time came face-to-face with a friendly Deer just off-trail, looking me in the eye from maybe 30 yards away….gun in hand…big brown eyes looking right at me…
And decided that’s it…no more hunting and killing unless I have an empty fridge at home and a family to feed.
That day I turned into a non-hunting “pansie”…..
Nowdays, worse thing about it is how “hunting ” is done by many, maybe most.
No real concern or thought of “sport” and out-witting an Animal.
A few years back, a local going on an illegal “hunt” just outside town, behind a Church and poaching an Elk….his mistake was being seen and talking too much about it.
He was turned in and cited, but come time to face the Judge, his story was he was shooting at a tree with a 30/06 and had no idea there was a Bull Elk behind it.
A story I like to tell, many years ago I was on a late season fishing trip in Mono County, just so happened to be opening-day eve of Deer season inthea very popular X-12 zone..
A trip to the local sporting goods shop to get some fish-hooks and powerbait, and the store’s cashier, of all people, talking to a group of out-of-town “hunters”, telling them of an area sure to bag their Buck that next morning…
Which happened to be an area I knew of very close by a campsite that was known for friendly and domesticated Deer to frequent during the Spring and Summer months, the Deer having no idea all hell was going to break loose that following morning with opening day of Deer season.
What I decided to do, and did was after dark, about 10 P.M. was go into that area in the canyon and “test fire” the Ruger .40 caliber pistol I bring along on camping and fishing trips.
Shot off 9 shots rapid-fire into the sky, and will never forget the noise of those blasts echoing through the canyon, and the fire coming out of the barrel of the pistol in the dark.
And then knowing, that surely was going to run those unsuspecting Deer up and into the mountains and out of that easy “kill-zone” for the SouCal hunters that next morning..
That year, opening day, no easy hunting for those that chose to “hunt” an area near a campsite….that year, if they wanted a Buck they had to walk and work for it this time..
For those that are left that hunt the way it’s supposed and intended to be with the walk and hike and hunt into an area, and I know a few, more power to them..the ones you even know they hunt is by bringing you a venison steak, not seeing some facebook post and selfie taken, not a problem…
But not so much with those that see it as a badge,high-fiving their buddies sitting in a truck in or around a campground at 5 A.M. and taking facebook photos of their hunting abilities…