Theodore ‘Teddy’ Roosevelt, our 26th president, avid hunter and conservationist, once stated, “Defenders of the short-sighted men who in their greed and selfishness will, if permitted, rob our country of half its charm by their reckless extermination of all useful and beautiful wild things sometimes seek to champion them by saying ‘the game belongs to the people.’ So it does; and not merely to the people now alive, but to the unborn people.”
Roosevelt, like many hunters before, took the initiative to learn ethical hunting and then to teach and lead by example the responsibility to take care of our country’s ...