Couple this with the fact that Carnagie was full of the pungent aromas of an herbivore fleeing in fright and what you get, is a tasty meal which sent a pack of hungry wolves into a feeding frenzy.
I guarantee that I would not succumb to such a ghastly ending without taking (bare handed) a few of those wolves with me!

The very root of the problem in the declining numbers of people who are not venturing out and into the woods to hunt is a bit more complex and multi faceted than any single factor.
One such factor which we have already discussed on your blog here phillip is the “cost”!
The guys gathered at the “Black Bear Lodge” dressed in camo and participating in “virtual Reality Games” shows that a large part of the population still has “the passion for hunting implanted in their breast” to quote Mr. Dickens.
But they have chosen a less expensive way to fulfill their need to get out and into the woods to hunt.

I have spoken many times about the clinical term coined around 20 years ago now, and that term is: Wilderness Deprivation!
This is why Yosemite Park has to turn away visitors every year and, the waiting list to get into that park can sometimes be as long as 2 years in advance when you book your reservations. Apparently they are now calling it: Nature Deficit Disorder!

The “No Child Left Inside” bill? I am immediately suspicious of because the term which they use: Environmental Education, sounds too much like a thinly veiled Animal Rights Agenda and I would like to get my hands on a copy of this bill to see just what is being proposed here.

I simply teach my children the basic principles of “survival” and to “not” fall victim of being someone or somethings “prey”! I do not rely upon the “system” to tell them where our meat comes from.
I really like the way Mr. Lieberman butchers a sheep in front of his students to teach them that meat does not magically appear in the supermarkets coming neatly presented in styrofoam and cellophane wrapping.
Kudos to you Dr. Lieberman!

This whole story is really nothing new to people like us who are out there and in the wilderness most every day.
We see more animals and witness the subtle changes in their environment in one single year, than most all of the “armchair adventurers” will ever witness within their lifetimes.

It is really sad though that States like California, have overburdened its populace with so many restrictive laws that we now have had to resort to hiring Professional Hunters from Australia to come and eradicate an overpopulation of Hogs on an Island!
When all it would take is to have the State, run a few “Public Hunts” The problem would be taken care of naturally, and the State would “generate” income instead of paying out hundred of thousands of dollars to foreign interests.

That would be too simple of a solution though!