Shame the turkeys don't have a property owners association. I'm sure they'd have a thing or two to say about you people. You took their land, after all!
I believe Mr. Theodore Roosevelt, you know, the guy we have to thank for having any sort of national parks in this country, said it best; "Defenders of the short-sighted men/women who in their greed and selfishness will, if permitted, rob our country of half its charm by their reckless extermination of all useful and beautiful wild things sometimes seek to champion them by saying the “the game belongs to the people.” So it does; and not merely to the people now alive, but to the unborn people. The “greatest good for the greatest number” applies to the number within the womb of time, compared to which those now alive form but an insignificant fraction. Our duty to the whole, including the unborn generations, bids us restrain an unprincipled present-day minority from wasting the heritage of these unborn generations. The movement for the conservation of wild life and the larger movement for the conservation of all our natural resources are essentially democratic in spirit, purpose, and method."
Not everything is about you and your lawn...and to think this a "small" problem, among larger ones, is foolish. We have an impact on the natural world, even in the smallest terms. We've proved time and time again that we can wipe animals off the face of the earth. Why don't we instead try to prove that we can live together with them, and use our superior "Human Intelligence" to move past the trigger happy ways of old? I'm 24, and it saddens me that so much wildlife will be ripped from this world by the time my Children's Children are born. Sometimes dogs wake me up with their barking, cats like to congregate outside my window at night and scream bloody murder, birds that sit in the trees defecate on my car all the time. I'm not going to go blow them all away with a shotgun! If every community killed every animal they dee
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Luke Mitchell
11 years ago
My name is Luke, I have a name. Hunting is different than exterminating. I'm glad you looked up some facts on Roosevelt. He was a hunter, indeed, and he was very passionate about it. If you read further, the expeditions in which the 11,000 animals (including insects) were hunted, were all commissioned by the Smithsonian Institution in the name of science and research. Roosevelt also wrote many books upon his observations of these animals, and saw hunting as a way of furthering our knowledge about the animals themselves and the environment around them. He stood in awe and saw the beauty of the wilderness, something people have ultimately lost touch with. I never said anything was wrong with hunting, but wiping animals out is another act entirely. Yes his numbers were a little excessive, but for the man that set aside 230,000,000 acres of land that would have almost surely become strip malls, full of Targets, Nike, and Apple stores, I'll let him slide. You and your angry "property owners" are not Teddy Roosevelt. You are not keeping the magic of the natural world alive by cutting turkey populations. We've learned a lot since his time about our impact on the environment. Shouldn't we have gotten smarter by now? Cullings and open hunting seasons are practices made up by, you guessed it, humans! What gives us the right?
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Trey Judy
11 years ago
I am a Crescent property owner and I have no problem listening to opinions of our community as a whole. It is a sad day when we are so ashamed of our actions that we want to shut down outside criticism.
Shame the turkeys don't have a property owners association. I'm sure they'd have a thing or two to say about you people. You took their land, after all! I believe Mr. Theodore Roosevelt, you know, the guy we have to thank for having any sort of national parks in this country, said it best; "Defenders of the short-sighted men/women who in their greed and selfishness will, if permitted, rob our country of half its charm by their reckless extermination of all useful and beautiful wild things sometimes seek to champion them by saying the “the game belongs to the people.” So it does; and not merely to the people now alive, but to the unborn people. The “greatest good for the greatest number” applies to the number within the womb of time, compared to which those now alive form but an insignificant fraction. Our duty to the whole, including the unborn generations, bids us restrain an unprincipled present-day minority from wasting the heritage of these unborn generations. The movement for the conservation of wild life and the larger movement for the conservation of all our natural resources are essentially democratic in spirit, purpose, and method." Not everything is about you and your lawn...and to think this a "small" problem, among larger ones, is foolish. We have an impact on the natural world, even in the smallest terms. We've proved time and time again that we can wipe animals off the face of the earth. Why don't we instead try to prove that we can live together with them, and use our superior "Human Intelligence" to move past the trigger happy ways of old? I'm 24, and it saddens me that so much wildlife will be ripped from this world by the time my Children's Children are born. Sometimes dogs wake me up with their barking, cats like to congregate outside my window at night and scream bloody murder, birds that sit in the trees defecate on my car all the time. I'm not going to go blow them all away with a shotgun! If every community killed every animal they dee
My name is Luke, I have a name. Hunting is different than exterminating. I'm glad you looked up some facts on Roosevelt. He was a hunter, indeed, and he was very passionate about it. If you read further, the expeditions in which the 11,000 animals (including insects) were hunted, were all commissioned by the Smithsonian Institution in the name of science and research. Roosevelt also wrote many books upon his observations of these animals, and saw hunting as a way of furthering our knowledge about the animals themselves and the environment around them. He stood in awe and saw the beauty of the wilderness, something people have ultimately lost touch with. I never said anything was wrong with hunting, but wiping animals out is another act entirely. Yes his numbers were a little excessive, but for the man that set aside 230,000,000 acres of land that would have almost surely become strip malls, full of Targets, Nike, and Apple stores, I'll let him slide. You and your angry "property owners" are not Teddy Roosevelt. You are not keeping the magic of the natural world alive by cutting turkey populations. We've learned a lot since his time about our impact on the environment. Shouldn't we have gotten smarter by now? Cullings and open hunting seasons are practices made up by, you guessed it, humans! What gives us the right?
I am a Crescent property owner and I have no problem listening to opinions of our community as a whole. It is a sad day when we are so ashamed of our actions that we want to shut down outside criticism.