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 Home > News and alerts > You are here: Proposal to initiate bowhunt meets resistance Proposal to initiate bowhunt meets resistance (10/31/2002) North Carolina- An exploding deer population in a North Carolina town has led
residents to seek an urban bowhunt.
Bowhunting is a safe and effective form of population control,
but anti-hunting residents are working to stop the proposal. On November 24, approximately 1,050 households at Fearrington
Village in Pittsboro, North Carolina will decide whether a group of
skilled hunters will be permitted to bowhunt for deer on unpopulated
land around the village perimeter.
Residents supporting the hunt want to try to control the
escalating deer population, but anti-hunters are spreading their
emotional rhetoric to prevent the hunt. A local anti-hunter contacted HSUS to obtain anti-bowhunting
propaganda. She later
distributed the information at a private Homeowners Association meeting. “They want to do the same thing to the deer that this
country has done to the Native Americans,” said anti-hunter Robert
Leopold. “I think it’s
a terrible thing. I just
hope I’m not around when the first arrow hits a person.” Leopold has little to fear. Bowhunting is one of the safest forms of outdoor recreation
in this country. According to figures collected by the International
Hunter Education Association, while there were six million bowhunters in
1999, only four injuries and one fatality were reported. In addition, sportsmen have been the driving force behind wildlife conservation over the past century. In fact, their funding of conservation programs – over $2 billion annually – is the primary reason many wildlife species are more abundant in more areas of the country today than at any time during the last hundred years. CopyrightÓ U.S. Sportsmen's Alliance- www.ussportsmen.org
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