judith@athena.mit.edu (Judith Provost) (03/14/90)
Dear Gus:
I suggest you contact folks who live in: Vermont, New Hampshire,
Massachusetts, upstate New York, central and south New Jersey and
check with them as to THEIR attitudes AND their movements outside
their homes during hunting season! People stay INDOORS, forbid
their children to go outside and don't allow their pets out.
Those hunters who are: "familiar to woods, woods ways, and
woods problems" have been known to shoot anything that moves.
Most of these good ol' boys litter the area with beer cans,
cigarette butts(not a few forest fires have been started by them!),
empty cartridges. Hunters have been known to target-practice when
the game eludes them.
Don't take my word for this, alone; get a copy of The New York Times,
magazine section-last November, the date escapes me, where the
reporter who wrote while William Shirer was on vacation, expressed
my sentiments, and more. Fear keeps him and his neighbors "inside,
away from the windows".
I am "familiar with woods, woods ways, and woods problems". I belong
to Mass. Audubon, birdwatch and I don't hunt!
Unless one hunts to survive, or cull - I consider hunters the problem
and nuisance, NOT the animals. :-)
Peace,
Sr. Judith Teresa(Provost), OSF