A story from today's offerings by Reuters: Hunters helped save rare bird from extinction.
As a patriotic, horn-tooting falconer, I immediately assumed "Peregrine recovery," although that story is a little crusty, even for we hacks. Turns out this one is about the Ivory-billed Woodpecker, a bird arguably saved from annihilation by hunters' annual purchase of duck stamps and the government protection of wild lands this revenue allows.
Sometimes we forget, or maybe refuse to accept, that without one or both of the following there would be no "wild land" left: human interest in it, and money. Arkansas, God bless her, holds a lot of duck hunters.
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When I was little my grandfather used to take us fishing down there.
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