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BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. #188: Hunting on the Ballot with Gaspar Perricone
From ballot initiatives that mandate wolf-reintroduction or banning the hunting of mountain lions and bobcats, wildlife management decisions are increasingly being made by voters instead of biologists.
It is called "ballot biology" and it is a result of some highly motivated anti-hunting and animal rights groups reaching out to a ballooning demographic of non-hunting, often urban, voters who may be well-intentioned ("protect mountain lions and bobcats from being slaughtered!") but who don't know how wildlife is managed, how it was restored from near-extinction, or who pays for habitat and…
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