Bob Brown- North Carolina Wildlife Federation, I wouldn't expect anything less from this camp. The Wildlife Federation is the biggest anti ANY commercial hunting or outfitting of any kind, HIGH fence or LOW fence outfitters, they hate em all. They have 2 full time lobbyists in our capital that make sure to kill any bills that would benefit an outfitter, landowner or help bring in "rich" non-resident money. They also bash the pheasant preserves and pen raised pheasants but would never pass up the opportunity to shoot a free released rooster out of the ditch next to a preserve road hunting. They act like the landowners owe em a place to hunt. If the preserves were free to them they would all be for it. Custer state park is the biggest prime example, as many as 16,000 applicants for a trophy bull elk tag in a high fence state park. When they think they might have a better shot at getting a "free" bull elk, they will even support the helicopter herding of elk out of Wind Cave park (highest concentration of CWD animals anywhere) into Custer state Park. Liberal mentality at its best. Wildlife has to have some sort of value for landowners in order to take productive land out of production and leave or plant to wildlife habitat. These Wildlife Federation people don't understand this because most have never taken the risk of buying land and having to make an income off of it in order to pay the bank back and make a LIVING. Most are employed by some sort of state or federal gov't agency and spend the day figuring out what everyone else SHOULD be doing and how they should be doing it. They receive a paycheck and benefits every 2 weeks no matter if they have produced anything or not. They spend $30 on a hunting license (and most whine about that) and really think they are doing a lot for the habitat of "their" wildlife. $30 these days wouldn't provide enough habitat to produce or feed 6 barn sparrows let alone feed a single deer and all the other wildlife that the landowners feed daily, 365 days a year.
