Practicing Your Knowledge

      Over Thanksgiving this year I will be going to Saskatchewan, Canada to go hunting for white-tailed deer.  The place that I am going to is a guided operation so I will be able to see how a guide does his job.  I believe that I will be a great experience to see first hand a guide doing his job. It is to be hoped that in the process I will be able get some tips first hand on what it takes to be a good guide.  Now since it hasn’t happened yet and by the time I do go on this trip this assignment will already be over I wont be able to explain how getting hands-on experience was different from learning only from me being told or reading about it.  I have though already experienced hands-on learning from other trips that I have already taken.  I have come to learn and probably will interpret that every guide has there own way of doing things.  A main part of this is that the ways different animals are hunted are never the same, so each guide has a particular way to hunt the animal that you are after.  In saying this I have never been on a guided whitetail hunt so I don’t really know what to expect from that.  Hopefully I am able to learn a lot from this trip about being a guide.  When hunting before I wasn’t intently looking at the way a guide works, but now that I have been researching this career in the interest of being one I will be able to learn more then what I have just happened to notice.

Contemplating Controversy

I found an article about the controversy of now being able to hunt grey wolves in the United States again.  The article is from 2009 when the federal government allowed the grey wolves to be hunted again.  Allowing wolves to be hunted again is not popular with everyone.  The wolves in 2009 were just recently taken off of the endangered species list in the northern Rocky Mountains and environmental and animal rights groups were upset of this decision.  The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service determined that the population of the grey wolves were healthily enough to allow hunting again.  The opposing side on the other hand disagree and are saying that they are not large enough or healthy enough.  The opposing side is worried that just like before the wolves will be almost wiped away again like before due to over hunting and are explaining the ecological impact that the wolves have.  The fish and wildlife services have set a strict number of wolves to be taken each year so that the wolves will not be able to be wiped out and are going to keep a close eye on the population of the wolves, but they are sure that the grey wolves are able to be hunted again in the U.S.

Moyer, Amanda. "Wolf hunting now legal but still controversial." CNN U.S.. Cable News Network, 03 2009. Web. 16 Oct 2012. <http://articles.cnn.com/2009-09-

http://articles.cnn.com/2009-09-03/us/wolf.hunt_1_wolf-hunting-gray-wolves-wolf-populations?_s=PM:US

Open Post #4

Duck season has just recently last weekend in the area and it just happens to be my favorite type of hunting, I really enjoy it.  So since this happening I've been thinking a lot about duck hunting and decided to see how much it cost to go on a guided hunt in Michigan and where I would have to go.After checking in to such i have learned that there are many guides in the state of Michigan located all over the state.  There typical price per person per day varies from guide to guide, but the average price range is from $150 to $250.  So finding out this information I hope to soon, in the near future, go on a guide hunt for ducks.

Argument

I found this article from this man that is against hunting.  The article talks about how he is completely against the act of hunting and it tells a bad experience that he had with hunters.  The man was behind his house walking his dogs when he came across the remains of a deer.  The hunter that had shot the deer had field dressed it. He then left the end trails behind just laying there.  Along with this he left some trash lying next to the deer.  Now the fact of the matter is that the hunter was wrong in the way that they had disposed of the remains and the trash.  The hunter should have taken care of everything properly so that the environment is clean and protected so that as hunters we don't get a bad reputation like this.  Hunting is humane in the way that people hunt but the fact is as hunters we need to respect the environment so that hunters don't get a bad reputation in the eye of the public.

Kirk, Glenn. "Speaking Out Against Hunting." OpEdNews. N.p., 21 January 2009. Web. 11 Oct 2012. <http://www.opednews.com/articles/Speaking-Out-Against-Hunti-by-Glenn-Kirk-090120-751.html>

http://www.opednews.com/articles/Speaking-Out-Against-Hunti-by-Glenn-Kirk-090120-751.html

Code of Ethics

There is a code of ethics that hunters and hunting guides alike should follow and there are as follow:

1. Every state has different laws, so the guides should familiarize themselves with the regulations wherever they are.
2. Guides should conduct their outfitting and guiding operations in a manner that does not discredit themselves, or other outfitters and guides.
3. Respect other outfitter and guide members rights and shall not directly or indirectly cause injury to others.
4. Guides should respect the property they are hunting and the landowners.
5. If guides see illegal activity taking place they should report it to the proper authorities.
6. Guides should learn to tread lightly while afield. Use vehicles only on established roads and trails, practice low-impact camping and travel, and pack out your trash.
7. They must make sure there clients have the proper tags and licenses.
8. Also all hunters and guides alike should hunt safely.

All hunters and guides should follow these rules so that everyone is safe while hunting and that people are still able to hunt in the future.  These rules also will keep or environment and protect the wildlife that we have on this planet.