Austin Shibilski
Mrs, Straub
Economics
18 November 2014
Is Hunting Season Helping The Economy
When it comes to fall most people think about football, But when it comes to me I think about hunting season. Many people have mixed feeling about hunting season because they think you're killing a poor innocent animal. As deer population gets bigger and bigger it;s hard to keep deer in check at a decent percentage. With a deer percentage of about 76% hunter walk the woods with a gun the 3rd weekend of November trying to chase the Buck of a life time. Deer season is here, and the as people of the economy i'm going to ask you to hit the woods and go after deer. .
As most people know deer can cause serious damage to a car or person and many other things. Over the past 4 year over 1,000 car crashes have occurred due to deer which is up 14% from 68%, with a new time high for crashes more tags will be given out to hunters to prevent this from happening. The Economic Growth is affecting the wildlife, as more building, business or roads are being built the wildlife area starts to decrease. we are more susceptible to car crashes if the economy keeps building in wildlife areas.
One of the managers at DNR headquarters In Wisconsin says that only 28 percent of product sold goes to the government . Even though this does not look like a large number it is quite a big number. The 28% the government get is from store sold products, hunting land, and much more. In the end the Government makes a lot of money off hunters. If the DNR were selling land for 26,000 dollars the government would ruffly get about 7000 dollars, It might not seem like much but overtime that adds up.
You might not think that huntings a good thing but for the safety of the humans and the safety of our economic growth you need hunters. Without hunter we would have more damaged materials and thing we liked, thats why hunters are a good thing for the economy to protect other and protect what they love the most their stuff.
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This was in interesting take on the season of fall. I always forget about hunting season since my family no longer hunts. However, I have noticed a huge increase in the deer population, good thing that hunting season still exists. It is still sad as you mentioned how with the increasing population that more buildings are being created which harms wild life. Even though the new buildings are increasing the economy it still is bad for wildlife and could lead to more car accidents as you mentioned before.
ReplyDeleteI also think this is an interesting take on fall. Most think about pumpkins, or Halloween, not hunting. I don't necessarily agree with hunting and understand why it is something people like to do it but I do see the economic benefits. Yes you are killing Bambi and all of her friends, but that is better than an over population of deer in the highways. Although I don't believe we are above the deer, meaning that just because we are expanding in population and places we live doesn't mean that the deer don't have the same right. Why do we get to kill them when they are innocent wildlife in nature.
ReplyDeleteWell, part of the problem is that deer aren't smart enough to control their own populations. Since there tends to be fewer large predators around human-populated areas, thanks to farmers and the general stigma that 'OMG WE'RE GUNNA GET EATED BY DA WOLFS!!!', deer that migrate to human populated areas, which most of them have at this point, have no predators other than cars with bright headlights. So, lacking a control, the population explodes, and, since deer will just alternated between eating for two thirds of the time and stopping to digest for the other third, the food available for both the deer and every other herbivore in the area gets seriously depleted. If populations get too high the deer either leave or start starving to death because there's not enough food for all of them, and they drag the entire ecosystem down with them by starving the other herbivores as well. Which is definitely much worse than just hunting some of the deer to begin with so their populations don't get out of control in the first place. Plus, the money that the government makes from selling hunting licences and from taxes on hunting equipment mostly goes toward wildlife conservation, so, ironic as it sounds, the more people hunt animals, the more they help take care of them, through both population control and environment protection.
DeleteI like your beginning analogy on how most people think about football rather than hunting. This was a great controversial topic that you chose. Most people prior to reading this wouldn't have any sort of a clue on how hunting can help the economy, and how much some people appreciate it. If hunters didn't exist, the deer population would grow and grow until they became overpopulated. This would cause more accidents than as you stated in your post. Overall, I like the topic and good job!
ReplyDeleteHunting not only effects the economy in the ways you said but also because places like Gander Mountain and Cabela's get business and that effects the economy as well.
ReplyDeleteThe price is high before season and then once the demand has gone down after season, the prices go down too. I'm waiting two more weeks until I go out and get myself a new hunting suit for next year. Good luck next week, I'll be out there freezing too!
Though you make a compelling case that hunting is good for the economy, I think there is a way that it could be harmful. As with everything, hunting takes time, and the economy, and the hunter, loses any alternative products that could be made in the time dedicated to hunting. This represents the economic concept of opportunity cost.
ReplyDeleteThis is an interesting point of view. I haven’t really thought about how deer hunting is related to economics; but if you really think about it, everything can be related to economics. That chart that you used is very helpful in visualizing it, because people that don’t hunt in general -- like myself -- have a hard time visualizing what you are trying to say with all the percentages. Whether or not this perspective is a good aspect of the economy or bad -- which it can be argued either way -- there are major effect either way. Great job Austin!
ReplyDeleteIt's so weird to think about hunting. Being a vegetarian I don't think killing animals is great. However just driving home I always see deer running and it makes me so nervous. And they way you put that in made me think that the more deer that were being killed would be okay. Because not only does it keep the roads cleaner, it gives money to the government and it puts food on the table. Hunting does that and also helps with business like taxidermy or butchers. So I think that I agree with you that hunting really does good things for the economy!
ReplyDeleteI'm not really in favor of the hunting activity, but I can understand your point.I never actually thought about the damages that deers can make on people or cars and how it can affect economy.And I would hate to be driving and hiting a deer. So thinking that way I get the benefits of hunting, which is preventing damages, but other then that I don't see the big excitement of killing animals.
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