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Overhunting, not weather, to blame for dwindling pheasant population
The Gazette Opinion Staff
Apr. 16, 2011 11:27 am
A smiling face all giddy about taking family and friends out to shoot something (Gazette, April 9). Isn't that special? Really, do some people have nothing better to do than that?
Now, if you want to be outdoors, be outdoors, but do you have to shoot something such as a symbol of peace to get your jollies off? But if you really need to kill something, why not black birds, crows or feral cats. We have plenty of them around and they are pests.
Overhunting has dwindled our pheasant population to almost nothing. Don't blame the weather. Guess the doves are next in line. So sad.
Evelyn Bunting
Mount Vernon
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