Texas BHA new campaign

[JTeLarkin08]

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[HighwayHunter]

Are they serious?


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[Texans42]

Are they serious?


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Yes. They aren’t real found of private property rights either. Just wait until you have a road you own and pay to maintain, and they want it for public access to other places.....

Was so close to doing a lifetime membership then the Bears Ears debate came down the pipeline and I saw their true colors. When you mirror Patagonia’s lies you are them, oh wait, they love them some Yvon, as his dark army buys up more tag allocation

[WItoTX]

Yes. They aren’t real found of private property rights either. Just wait until you have a road you own and pay to maintain, and they want it for public access to other places.....

Was so close to doing a lifetime membership then the Bears Ears debate came down the pipeline and I saw their true colors. When you mirror Patagonia’s lies you are them, oh wait, they love them some Yvon, as his dark army buys up more tag allocation

BHA is a proponent of the North American model of conservation, and captive, privatized deer herds directly contradict that. From their website:

Captive Breeding
To be clear, this message is in regards to captive breeding and rearing operations, also commonly referred to as “deer farms”. These operations actively buy and sell both live individuals and the semen of “trophy” individuals of native deer on the open market. The deer are bought, sold, and transported from facility to facility, or in the case of “harvest bucks”, sold to “hunting” operations where the deer’s identification tags (ear tags) are removed, the animal is released, and paying clients are then allowed to “hunt” those individuals. Although the Texas legislature allows these breeder facilities to do so under permit, the deer are still considered a public resource, are technically owned by all citizens of Texas, and are putatively still held in trust by the state of Texas for the benefit of all Texans.

Need more incentive to hunt wild deer? Captive propagation and release is a direct contradiction to several central tenets of the North American Model of Wildlife Management (primarily tenets 1 & 2, but also 7; see the Model here). This set of principles that began with forward thinking conservationists, including hunters such as Teddy Roosevelt, has been the single biggest contribution to the diversity and abundance of wildlife in the United States and Canada, and has been emulated in some form by governments around the world. The most obvious and consequential aspect of deviating from the Model to Texans is perhaps that the industry, in practicality, is wholly dependent on the practical privatization of a public resource. After all, even those deer contained in breeder pens, administered growth hormones and antibiotics, and bought, sold, and
transferred among breeders and hunting operations are in fact still owned by the public and, theoretically, held in public trust (owned by every single Texan, but managed by the state for the benefit of ALL Texans). Sound contradictory? It is!

https://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.ne...pdf?1576280260

I do agree with you on the Bear Ears/Grand Staircase thing though. They mis-characterized the whole thing.

[CEO]

I saw that on Instagram and wondered if anyone here would bring it up. This is the only organization where I had to get slightly drunk to pull the trigger on a membership.

[Texans42]

BHA is a proponent of the North American model of conservation, and captive, privatized deer herds directly contradict that. From their website:

Captive Breeding
To be clear, this message is in regards to captive breeding and rearing operations, also commonly referred to as “deer farms”. These operations actively buy and sell both live individuals and the semen of “trophy” individuals of native deer on the open market. The deer are bought, sold, and transported from facility to facility, or in the case of “harvest bucks”, sold to “hunting” operations where the deer’s identification tags (ear tags) are removed, the animal is released, and paying clients are then allowed to “hunt” those individuals. Although the Texas legislature allows these breeder facilities to do so under permit, the deer are still considered a public resource, are technically owned by all citizens of Texas, and are putatively still held in trust by the state of Texas for the benefit of all Texans.

Need more incentive to hunt wild deer? Captive propagation and release is a direct contradiction to several central tenets of the North American Model of Wildlife Management (primarily tenets 1 & 2, but also 7; see the Model here). This set of principles that began with forward thinking conservationists, including hunters such as Teddy Roosevelt, has been the single biggest contribution to the diversity and abundance of wildlife in the United States and Canada, and has been emulated in some form by governments around the world. The most obvious and consequential aspect of deviating from the Model to Texans is perhaps that the industry, in practicality, is wholly dependent on the practical privatization of a public resource. After all, even those deer contained in breeder pens, administered growth hormones and antibiotics, and bought, sold, and
transferred among breeders and hunting operations are in fact still owned by the public and, theoretically, held in public trust (owned by every single Texan, but managed by the state for the benefit of ALL Texans). Sound contradictory? It is!

https://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.ne...pdf?1576280260

I do agree with you on the Bear Ears/Grand Staircase thing though. They mis-characterized the whole thing.

So if dispersal deterrents are against the NA conservation model, Then LO tags are against the NA conservation model, there for Land owners who’s lively hood are determined by lack of crop damage are justified in Fencing Out all wildlife, even if it eliminates all wintering habitat....

NA conservation model is founded off the backs of land owner tolerance, not hunting

I know their thoughts on captive, any barrier is captive, unless it’s public access like Antelope Island.....

I use to be a member, as with all Conservation Orgs, there is never all good. you just have to decide how much dis-agreement with them you can tolerates. Bear ears mistruths was enough for me.

[JTeLarkin08]

I pretty much agree with it lol. But just doesn’t seem like a good way to grow membership in Texas lol.


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[Jspradley]

Gonna be lotsa folks getting #triggered over that one.

I personally agree with it, petting zoo freak deer are an abomination.

I disagree with the BHA on several topics but they are spot on with this one.

[Rhettsker]

Not fond of petting zoos myself, but that is a real slippery slope.

[Texans42]

Gonna be lotsa folks getting #triggered over that one.

I personally agree with it, petting zoo freak deer are an abomination.

I disagree with the BHA on several topics but they are spot on with this one.

I’m not a fan of breeders or even DMP but I’m a fan of fences from a fence out management perspective.

[Shake N' Bake]

I pretty much agree with it lol. But just doesn’t seem like a good way to grow membership in Texas lol.


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Yeah in Texas that will go over like a **** in the punch bowel[emoji23][emoji23][emoji23]

[James]

I love it

[BTLowry]

To each his own

But when you start forming factions you weaken the whole

At some point we may all wish we stood and fought the antis UNITED

[Jen-Man]

Gonna be lotsa folks getting #triggered over that one.

I personally agree with it, petting zoo freak deer are an abomination.

I disagree with the BHA on several topics but they are spot on with this one.

Agree!


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