Waterengineer
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Fellow members:
On page 57 of the March/April Shooting Sportsman magazine the Sierra Club has a full page advertisement with the headline, "Win a free hunting trip to Alaska." Quite an attention grabber, I must say!
When I read further into the ad seeing that the Sierra Club is the hunt sponsor and that it is a hunting essay contest my B.S. radar went up immediately.
I quote from the advertisement:
"To promote a more complete understanding of the value of hunting." And, further in the ad, "Winning essays will be published in a booklet form for use in outdoor education."
These statements really put my B.S. radar on overload!!
As with all things Sierra Club something does not pass the smell test!
First, there is something totally out of character about the Sierra Club wanting to cough up the cost of a guided hunt.
Second, I imagine that a cursory attempt to include the hunters point of view in an otherwise slanted, liberal "booklet" so when this "outdoor education" effort is pushed on our kids and grandkids, in schools, and outdoor events, the Sierra Club can say they showed the whole picture.
Third, it seems obvious that the Sierra Club will be collecting "Hunting Essays" to better understand the hunting community and its thinking, not for the sincere understanding, but in an effort to collect data on the hunting community's thinking to form stronger anti-hunting, anti-gun and stronger preservation arguments.
In short I cannot believe this is an honest effort to demonstrate "conservation", and "highest and best use of the resource" as Gifford Pichot advocated at the start of the 20th century, when the U.S. Forest Service was started. (Gifford Pichot was the first U.S. Forest Service Director and advoced conservation, not preservation. I wrote a book about this, it's name I forget.)
I created this thread, not only to raise awareness and to sound off but to ask for advice.
I feel strongly that this contect and the collection of essays need to be shut down. What is this community's advice? A letter writing campaign, raise awareness with the NRA, SCI, etc. Find a group to publish another "booklet from another point of view?
Hey, I'm open to ideas. Sound off!!
For full disclosure, I will be posting this on two other sites in an effort to bring awaremenss to a larger audience - so don't flame me for that.
On page 57 of the March/April Shooting Sportsman magazine the Sierra Club has a full page advertisement with the headline, "Win a free hunting trip to Alaska." Quite an attention grabber, I must say!
When I read further into the ad seeing that the Sierra Club is the hunt sponsor and that it is a hunting essay contest my B.S. radar went up immediately.
I quote from the advertisement:
"To promote a more complete understanding of the value of hunting." And, further in the ad, "Winning essays will be published in a booklet form for use in outdoor education."
These statements really put my B.S. radar on overload!!
As with all things Sierra Club something does not pass the smell test!
First, there is something totally out of character about the Sierra Club wanting to cough up the cost of a guided hunt.
Second, I imagine that a cursory attempt to include the hunters point of view in an otherwise slanted, liberal "booklet" so when this "outdoor education" effort is pushed on our kids and grandkids, in schools, and outdoor events, the Sierra Club can say they showed the whole picture.
Third, it seems obvious that the Sierra Club will be collecting "Hunting Essays" to better understand the hunting community and its thinking, not for the sincere understanding, but in an effort to collect data on the hunting community's thinking to form stronger anti-hunting, anti-gun and stronger preservation arguments.
In short I cannot believe this is an honest effort to demonstrate "conservation", and "highest and best use of the resource" as Gifford Pichot advocated at the start of the 20th century, when the U.S. Forest Service was started. (Gifford Pichot was the first U.S. Forest Service Director and advoced conservation, not preservation. I wrote a book about this, it's name I forget.)
I created this thread, not only to raise awareness and to sound off but to ask for advice.
I feel strongly that this contect and the collection of essays need to be shut down. What is this community's advice? A letter writing campaign, raise awareness with the NRA, SCI, etc. Find a group to publish another "booklet from another point of view?
Hey, I'm open to ideas. Sound off!!
For full disclosure, I will be posting this on two other sites in an effort to bring awaremenss to a larger audience - so don't flame me for that.
