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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 12, 2000
Our View
Another season
Deer hunters worthy harvest
Our deer hunters take a lot of flack from people
who love animals and oppose the killing, but
really don’t know what they are talking about — not withstanding the human deaths and injuries on the highways from the exploding deer population and their now serious destruction of woodland food for other animals and nesting for birds.
It might help everyone to better understand the L growing real need for deer hunting and its value, to ,J?e aware that through a quiet organized volunteer . Virginia program named “Hunters for the Hungry” : these sportsmen and women with bow and rifle share . their luck by donating and distributing venison meat - Statewide to the poor and other less fortunate among us - more than a million pounds over the past ten years. ; 2 On any hunting morning during the season’s winter days we see these hunters, many themselves tiandicapped by some life injury, coming in from the i woodlands and fields in mobile carts with their harvest for their families and surplus food to be shared with others. “ Another season came to close in Rappahannock on [Saturday, Jan. 1 and according to Game Warden Jim , [Rankston there were over 1700 deer bagged by ! Shunters in the county. ‘ ** Let’s support deer hunting and call it what it is | ’today, a worthy and vital harvest in the highest best 1 interests not only of people but of other animals and ’ birds.
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