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We Need More Deer Hunting

By Erik Loomis

In General

On February 22, 2023

Forget the Bambi thing--there are too many deer. Effectively, in 2023, all animals in the United States are managed. If you create a scenario where you strip away the apex predators--wolves in this case--then you are going to see enormous spikes in grazing animals well...

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The Worst People in the World

By Erik Loomis

On March 8, 2021

I just don't get the people who start salivating at the idea of massacring wolves or any other wild animals really. Hunters in Wisconsin killed more than 200 wolves last.

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The Republican Party Must Be Crushed Into Dust, Part the Zillion

By Erik Loomis

On June 16, 2020

In the big scheme of everything that is going wrong, Trump rescinding the order to not shoot wolf puppies and bear cubs in their dens in Alaska may not be.

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...

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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.

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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.

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...