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potentially driving animals to extinction

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For the people who take issue with hunting because of this, you should read an article in this month's National Geographic about how much hunters do for preserving the environment and ensuring this doesn't happen.

According to the article hunters donated $280 million to conservation causes in 2006, in addition to the $1.22 billion for hunting and fishing licenses and $616 million in sales taxes on hunting & fishing equipment that is supposed to be used for wildlife conservation.

In addition hunters founded and have supported a number of the major conservation nonprofits. Hunters have been working on this since long before the hippies took it up.

True hunters are really the last people that want to see animals driven to extinction.

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I can't believe I missed that line!

Thanks Lupara!

The point made is very valid. We would not have most of the wildlife we have now if it were not for Sportsmen. We love our animals and would in no way want them to go away, well maybe with the exception of Wolves and Grizzlies.
Another thing to consider that almost all of the money used in wildlife conservation and funding state wildlife agencies is generated by sportsmen dollars.