I learned a valuable lesson. A letter said people opposed to dove hunting are “wrong” proved a good point. It screamed out “ignorance.” I’d like to point a few things out.

I don’t have the stomach to butcher things, but I like to hunt. Is the proposed plan to line all these doves up and smash their heads? That is killing. If you enjoy killing that is something you might.

That is like catching a fish with a barbless hook, stressing it to near death and then releasing it so you can give it that death experience without using nature for what its meant. Killing happens in a packing plant. Hunting is harvesting nature.

The proposed season on doves would have something to do with shotguns. You mentioned rifles, but usually flying things are shot with shotguns.

Our society is made of people. Our ecosystem has animals and people in it. In our ecosystem, we may wish to control the numbers of certain animals, but this can be thought of as a good thing because it not only sustains itself but has extra for some people to enjoy.

Are doves over-populated? It doesn’t seem like it. But obviously the DNR thinks the dove population could withstand some level of thinning out or they wouldn’t propose a season. Whether this should happen or not is up to popular opinion.

The last thing. Your opinion is not justified. It is blatant ignorance by the truckload. Yet you write a letter to the editor and waste space in this publication. Why?

If you really cared you would do some research and not look so ignorant, right? I think you just get mad because someone made you feel ignorant and now you need to lash out and prove it to the public.

Point taken.

Josh Bjork

Senior

Agricultural studies