Letter: Hunting on Antelope Island should be banned

Published: Thursday, Aug. 16 2012 12:00 a.m. MDT

Antelope Island.

Ray Boren, Deseret Morning News

Summary

Hunters should stalk their prey in an environment where the animals have a chance to escape — not on Antelope Island.

Utah game hunters who want to pay to hunt wildlife on Antelope Island should be ashamed. Real hunters want to, and will, hunt for deer, antelope and other game in the forests and on the open range giving the animals at least a chance to survive. The plutocrats would rather hunt game on Antelope Island that might as well be tethered up.

My wife is right when she says it is like a slaughter being allowed on the island.

Come on guys, there have got to be a lot more ways to raise money than to keep on allowing the big game hunters to show off their "safari" trophies.

Stan Jacobson

Ogden

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Ernest T. Bass

Bountiful, UT

But how will Herby sell off the state if he doesn't allow hunting out there?

7:36 a.m. Aug. 16, 2012
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Winglish

Lehi, UT

I think the hunt is a creative and viable way to sustain the island for generations to come. Maintaining a park like that is not free. Somebody has to pay. It might as well be that one wealthy person who desires to pay rather than all the More..

2:44 p.m. Aug. 16, 2012
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Midvaliean

MIDVALE, UT

Hunting is what it is. I don't care where the animal is, unless we are using spears and arrows the animal doesn't stand a chance.
If the meat is eaten and the animal is killed for food, and the parts are used for a More..

7:25 a.m. Aug. 16, 2012
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