Comments on: House committee gives OK to plan protecting hunters’ identity

By: Alex

Alex — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 06:45:43 +0000

Idaho is a state of superstitious, scared, girly men with guns who think going outside their homes after dark will get them eaten by the big bad wolf.

By: Char

Char — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 02:48:16 +0000

Panty-waist hunters. Just cannot take the heat, can you.

By: HOWLColorado

HOWLColorado — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 00:20:30 +0000

Speaking of typos

Hunters who received harassing phone calls or eemails

love those eemails ;P

I get plenty of negative reactions from hunters – none have quite reached death threats yet, but they aren’t too far away from that. Hypocracy prevents me from saying that humans shouldn’t hunt at all. Wolves hunt, so humans should be able to hunt for the same reasons.

So, until a wolf kills an elk and mounts the head in it’s den, humans can feed themselves and their families through hunting, and I won’t say a word to those hunters.

The comment I get about hunters, or “sportsmen” as they often refer to themselves, paying for much of the restoration and protection of the wilderness. I say “thank you.” However, it buys them little with me since they are only fixing, just a little, the damage done by previous generations of hunters.

In short, wolf advocacy groups are often not pro- or anti-hunter. They are pro- or anti-hunters who have little or no respect for the environment and position themselves and their “entertainment” above the wellbeing and success of wildlife which has a valuable and irreplaceable benefit to the ecosystems in which they live.

By: Dustin Hurst

Dustin Hurst — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 15:40:52 +0000

I would add that Idaho has tons more to offer than hunters; have you tried a Hudson’s hamburger? The I.B. Perrine Bridge in Twin Falls is pretty cool, as is the whole city of Boise. I invite you to come back sometime.

And no, I’m not paid by a travel company.

By: Dustin Hurst

Dustin Hurst — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 15:38:55 +0000

Emily,

About the typo: I’m sorry. It’s not a wolf protection bill. I just wasn’t thinking much when I typed that.

Dustin

By: Emily

Emily — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 13:25:42 +0000

Dustin, I like how fair you are. Thank you for listening to both sides.

On a side note…it’s not really a “wolf protection bill”…more a “wolf-hunter protection bill”. There was a Wolf Protection Bill at one point but…there must only be one protection bill circling around our government agencies…and now it’s for the hunters.

Regardless, because of your fairness and communication I WILL be back to IdahoReporter, just not your state (feel free to do an article on how many tourists Idaho is loosing because of their freaky angry hunters;).

By: Dustin Hurst

Dustin Hurst — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 22:19:38 +0000

@ Jeff

While readers may not like the wolf protection bill, I urge them not to ignore the news produced by IdahoReporter.com .

Dustin

By: jeff williams

jeff williams — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 21:56:40 +0000

Best to ignore this kinda news & concentrate completely on protection of wolf population or have latest bill, that makes them vulnerable again, repealed! I refuse to have any attention to the cause, diverted by this action!…

By: Stephen

Stephen — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 21:52:51 +0000

Whoops, sorry, it was “huntwolves.com”. And the girl who was annoying them was a Wolf advocate, and apparently she was posting about that site as well as other pro-hunting sites.

Don’t get me wrong, hunting was a fine past time when people respected and understood the ramifications of taking out the strongest in a gene pool, or an entire species that, in this case, will keep things like Aspen Trees growing.

By: Dustin Hurst

Dustin Hurst — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 21:51:54 +0000

Stephen,

Interesting. I had no idea that type of stuff was going on. Thanks for the comment and thanks for the visit to IdahoReporter.com

Dustin