I hunt with my dog, albeit for birds (mostly grouse) not big game or anything like that. It’s one of my dog’s greatest joys in life (maybe me too). I hunt on public land or private land with permission, even though permission is not needed if it’s not posted. She stays within 100 yards of me. I try to be as respectful as possible to others and their property. I support people upholding their traditions, doing what they love etc., however I do not appreciate the entitlement of some of these folks, it’s not everyone, heck, it’s probably a small minority but the bad apples can be the most visible and irritating to others. It makes us all look bad and legislation has been introduced in various states because of this, that calls to ban all dog hunting.

Some people are just going to be anti hunting across the board but I guess what I’m trying to convey to non-hunters is that we’re not all douche bags, but also to other dog hunters: don’t fuck it up for the rest of us.

I’m from FL, wife is from VT so we split time between both places now. I was scared at first being landlocked and at altitudes above 100’ but freakin love y’all, no billboards, venomous snakes, nobody litters except whoever drinks those twisted teas on my dirt road… I’m gonna find that sumbitch one day…

Sorry that was my dog’s fault, she flushed a bunch into the trees

BUT can it find croissants in the snow?!?

Must be a dog lover!

Her nickname is Turdie for a reason

It took a lot of effort to dig that croissant outta the ice!

Cutting purposefully increases ecological diversity. It creates different age classes of forests allowing for a mix of different flora and thus more beneficial wildlife habitat.

The forest service has best management practices for forestry as others have mentioned that do not just clear cut the land scape. They do it in patches, leave wetland buffers and do thinning, and staged cuts for the benefit of wildlife.

Think about monoculture crops, a monoculture mature forest is the same.

A cut over area regrows first with grasses, forbs, wildflowers, seed and fruit bearing shrubs, excellent wildlife food sources. Early successional forest also provides cover from predators. Open mature forest is often a death trap for many prey species.

This is beneficial for many species such as pollinators, butterflies, numerous bird species, deer and moose.

Old growth is the largest store of carbon, however, forests aged 0 - 50 have the highest sequestration rates.

Unfortunately this type of messaging from “environmentalists” sounds all warm and fuzzy but is a detriment to biodiversity as we as humans have suppressed many forms of ecological disturbance that are beneficial to the ecosystem.

Yup no reason this wouldn’t be coyotes