Tag: hunting

Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 181

By Erik Loomis

In General

On December 26, 2017

This is the grave of George Bird Grinnell. Born in 1849 to an old money New York elite family, Grinnell graduated from Yale in 1870. He was part of a first generation of easterners fascinated by a disappearing American West and he would make his career around this. After graduation, he was able to follow […]

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Elephants

By Erik Loomis

On November 16, 2017

Nice to see Trump create policy based on his boys’ love of killing large animals. The Trump administration plans to allow hunters to import trophies of elephants they killed in Zimbabwe and Zamb

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Regulating Lion Imports and Regulating Sweatshop-Produced Imports

By Erik Loomis

On December 23, 2015

The U.S. is now cracking down to some extent on the importation of lion trophies after the killing of Cecil earlier this year. It’s not going as far as some European nations which are banning th

Objects to a Tax

By Erik Loomis

In General

On December 3, 2014

I was rummaging around the other day in my office and came across this old letter to the editor of the journal Western Field and Stream (one of the precursors to the modern Field and Stream) from October 1897: Objects to a Tax Editor Western Field and Stream: I notice a strong tendency in this […]