I wasn’t really able to find an article of the significance of a hunting guide particularly but I was able to find a good article of the significance of hunting itself. I found an article about the deer hunting in the United States and why it is important. Whitetail deer hunting is the main check that keeps the deer population healthy. If the deer population gets to big then there are many problems that reside. Such as the deer eat all the plants on the ground and when there are to many deer all the ground cover starts to disappear resulting in all of the creatures that live in this ground cover to also disappear.Also overpopulation can result in diseases in the deer to be spread more.Such happened in 2007-2008 when a disease called tuberculosis was starting to be found in the upper midwest of the U.S. This disease is a wasting disease and can severally affect the deer so the population has to be in check so such things do not happen. Another very important thing about keeping the population of the white-tail deer in check is all of the accidents caused by deer crossing the road. Across the nation more than 1.5 million deer are hit by vehicles. With so many deer hit there is over a billion dollars of damage to cars each year. So if we didn't have people out hunting these deer and the guides that also bring people to hunt certain areas to manage the deer population all of these numbers even know they are large already would greatly increase along with disease being spread all over the country. As you can see hunting in the U.S. plays a big role that people don't realize but would soon figure out if people didn't hunt.
"Deer News." New York Times. n.d. 1. Web. 14 Nov. 2012. <http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/d/deer/index.html>.
McGahey, Larry. Whitetail Deer Winter Snow in Michigan. 2004. DigimarcWeb. 14 Nov 2012. <http://www.lowpockets.com/wild/whitetail_deer.html>.
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