Cities Hunting Hunters
What if a city opened areas for the bowhunting of deer, and no hunters came? That is exactly what happened in Clive, Iowa last year, and they want to change that.
It seems that hunting within the city limits of Clive last year, and even though ten applications were picked up, zero hunters participated. It couldn’t have been what city officials, or residents who requested the city manage the deer population, had hoped for. This year, they have made some changes and added additional land to try to increase interest and entice hunters to hunt.
After reading the article, I started wondering if I would hunt within city limits if it was offered here. To be honest, I don’t know if I would or not. And with that, I had to wonder exactly what it was about it that would cause me to not scream a resounding yes.
It would depend largely on the rules and regulations I guess. But even then, it would still be questionable for me. There is also concern with how local residents would react, since not everyone is going to be open to hunters killing deer, no matter how much of a nuisance they are. I wouldn’t want to be hunting in a spot I was allowed to only to have a confrontation with anti-hunters.
With more and more cities embracing the idea of controlling nuisance deer by allowing hunting within city limits, what does it take to get hunters to hunt? If, suddenly, you city or town opened hunting, would you participate? And if you don’t know if you would or not, what would it take from the city for you to say yes?
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August 15th, 2007 at 3:46 pm
That just amazes me. Here in Michigan we’ve had a slight uproar because one township is trying to ban bowhunting and there it is open and no one takes advantage. Crazy!