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Article: PUBLIC WILDLIFE A PRINCIPLE WORTH SAVING.(Sports)(Column)
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- Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
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- November 24, 2004
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Byline: Ed Dentry, Rocky Mountain News
We know the images from grade school. They might seem naive, but hunters and anglers had better not forget.
Venison was the main course, along with wild turkey, seafood, corn, squash and pumpkins.
The first Thanksgiving celebrants lauded a natural world where they meant to secure freedoms in part by rejecting the tyranny of rank and privilege. One thing they vowed never to tolerate again was the private ownership of wildlife, the king's deer.
It isn't legal now, despite some state efforts to pretend it is so, and it wasn't legal to start with. As far back as the Roman Empire, legal tradition held ...