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You used to be able to put a cabin in the woods and keep it open for other sportsmen to use, knowing they would leave it in the same condition they found it. No you’ve got to lock the doors, bolt the shutters closed and hope nobody burns it down,” Dennis said.
Dennis would like to see Virginia follow Minnesota’s lead in rekindling respect for outdoor ethics. There, the state offers voluntary courses in hunter education that zero in on specifics. Classes on water fowl, pheasant and deer cover management concepts, biology of the species, common hunter behavior and rudiments of skills necessary for that sport. Dennis noted that the courses aren’t taught by game commission personnel but rather by expert sportsmen.
“Before this country began to urbanize so rapidly, we had skills and attitudes towards hunting that used to be learned as a matter of course by rural people. As they’ve lost those skills, they’ve lost the codes of behavior that went along with them,” Dennis said. Hunter education courses aim to revitalize both the skills and the behavior codes. Technology has played a part in the decline of outdoor behavior codes, according to Dennis. It once took years to lean the skills necessary for hunting. Traveling back into a forest, setting up camp, living off the land while on a hunting expeition—these were talents that were learned the hard way. In the last few decades, however, there have been tremendous improvements in outdoor technology, according to Dennis. "They have rifles that shoot 500 miles, fish finders, tents that pop up by themselves, offroad vehicles. Hunters don’t
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