PETA: "Until your daddy learns that it's not 'fun' to kill, keep your doggies and kitties away from him. He's so hooked on killing defenseless animals that they could be next!" 
Hunting with firearms has an injury rate of 0.05 percent, which equates to about 1 injury per 2,000 participants, a safety level bettered only by camping (.01 percent) and billiards (.02 percent). For comparison, golf has an injury rate of 0.16 percent (1 injury per 622 participants)
Strange enough to see a photograph of a Kennedy firing a rifle, one with a telescopic sight no less, as the 50th anniversary of JFK's assassination approaches. Stranger still to learn that the Kennedy firing the rifle, a 14-year-old granddaughter of late Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, is killing seal pups in Canada, according a caption for the photo written by her father.
Liberal, Narrative
Nationally, elk numbers grew 44 percent, from about 715,000 to over 1,031,000, between 1984 and 2009 (see chart). During that same time span, Elk Foundation fundraisers have generated millions of dollars, which helped leverage millions more, for a conservation effort that has enhanced or protected nearly a square mile of habitat per day—now totaling over 5.5 million acres. Population highlights among top elk states: California, Nevada and New Mexico experienced the greatest increases with growth exceeding 100 percent. Colorado, Montana and Utah herds are 50-70 percent larger. Oregon and Wyoming are up 20-40 percent.
Wild elk populations in 23 states are higher now than 25 years ago when the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation (RMEF) was launched to help conserve habitat for elk and other wildlife.
Liberal, Narrative
Although elk will probably never return to their historic numbers nor to all of their historic range, far more elk inhabit the United States than at any other time in the last 100 years.
Liberal, Narrative
“Keep in mind that through the decades, hunters have not only been instrumental in wildlife management, but they have also paid for most wildlife conservation efforts in Arizona and nationwide,” Wakeling said. “The support and contributions by hunters and shooting sports enthusiasts have funded conservation efforts that benefit not just hunted species, but all wildlife species that Arizonans enjoy.”
Editorial, Liberal, Narrative
The North American Model of Wildlife Conservation is the world’s most successful. No other continent retains as close to a complete compliment of native wildlife species. While other countries struggle to conserve the little they have left, we enjoy great abundance and diversity of native wildlife. This is due, in large part, to forward-thinking early conservationists who saw the need to preserve wildlife and their habitats. Their efforts were the source of the North American Model of Wildlife Conservation, which strives to sustain wildlife species and habitats through sound science and active management.
Editorial, Liberal, Narrative
In its acknowledgement of the need for science and its message that future generations are deserving of a natural inheritance undiminished by present generations, Man and Nature was a profoundly modern text and profoundly New World. Are we not the inheritors of an ideal that says we can shape the future, that we are indeed responsible for it? This was not the outlook of Europeans when Marsh penned his famous text. But it throbbed in the hearts and minds of the rising cultures of Canada and the United States. Furthermore, isn’t science a fundamental principle of our thinking on resource conservation? Absolutely! Indeed both notions figure prominently in the North American Model and further signify the immense influence Marsh had on conservation thinking in the New World.
With revenues of more than $209 million in fiscal 2015, [Ducks Unlimited] is a powerhouse in conservation. Since its 1937 founding, DU has conserved more than 14 million acres in North America—an area roughly equivalent to the state of West Virginia, covering wetlands north and south of the border.
-Henry Grabar