enviro4u
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I have been hunting the public land behind my house (Patuxent River State Park) for several years now. After a new neighbor moves in and builds a barn to rent out stables, the horses came. My other neighbor advised me that the horse people will scare away the hunters ( he has hunted this section of land all his life). I did not believe him in hopes that the equine industry and the hunters could peacefully co exist on the same patch of land. We are all environmentalist and enjoy the outdoors right?
Now on the last day if the hunting season I go to walk across a field to my hunting spot and am confronted by a 40 something female rider who told me that she has juist run her horse where I plan to hunt.
She very happily announced that she has whistled and done everything possible to “scare away the deer because they jump out in front of her horse and spook it”. She concludes with advising me that she will return to the land that I have hunted for several years now, and continue the process of running deer out of the area of my stand ( which is the back yard to my house) .
It leads me to the questions:
Why can’t we all just get along?
What gives the equine industry the right to persist in the blatant disruption of all the other sport that they don’t approve of ?
Now on the last day if the hunting season I go to walk across a field to my hunting spot and am confronted by a 40 something female rider who told me that she has juist run her horse where I plan to hunt.
She very happily announced that she has whistled and done everything possible to “scare away the deer because they jump out in front of her horse and spook it”. She concludes with advising me that she will return to the land that I have hunted for several years now, and continue the process of running deer out of the area of my stand ( which is the back yard to my house) .
It leads me to the questions:
Why can’t we all just get along?
What gives the equine industry the right to persist in the blatant disruption of all the other sport that they don’t approve of ?
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