I support the crane hunt. Other states have crane hunts. Sand Hill Crane populations seem to be healthy and in good numbers despite other states that allow hunters to shoot cranes ( for many many years) . I agree with another local birder that dates for the MN crane hunt doesn't jive with the migratory cranes but overall I support the hunt. The MN Mourning dove hunt did not drop the dove population in the state since no one isn't reporting a shortage of doves in Minnesota.
I support all hunters of all types since many hunting orgs have done a lot good work with habitat restoration of game birds which benefited a lot of passerines or non game birds in our state. I just wish Duluth had a year round hunting season on White-tail Deer so my flower gardens, veggie gardens, trees, bushes do not get destroyed by these urban rats. So I have no issues with the DNR setting up a MN crane hunt since I think there are not going to be a lot of MN hunters out there shooting cranes and destroying the crane population in Minnesota. I even ask my co-workers who hunt and ask them what they thought about shooting and eating a crane and they were not interested, since the thought of eating crane did not appeal to them. So I do not think there are going to be a lot of cranes on supper platters this Thanksgiving replacing the traditional ham or turkey dinners. I am not that concern over this crane hunt. Now that I spoken .. let the private/public email flame replies begin.. Mike Mike Hendrickson Duluth, Minnesota Website: http://webpages.charter.net/mmhendrickson/ Blog: http://colderbythelakebirding.blogspot.com/ ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
