Wildlife in American Culture

Wildlife in American Culture                                                                                  Sidney Rogers 3rd


                the genreal point made mu Aldo Leopold in his work Wildlife in American Culture is that there are three values that our culture gets from wildlife. Which are expericance, dependency, and unnecessary destruction, which isn't exactly a value we shoudl get from wildlife. Because of our culture, the idea of wildlife is changing. More specifically, Leopold argues that hunting is one of the man ways that we devalue wildlife. He writes, " For example, we have bad hunters with good guns. Such  a hunter shoots a wood duck. And then tramoles the bejeweled cacass into the mud, lest the fall foul of the law. Such an experiance is not only devoid of cultural value, it is actually damaging to all concerned. It does physical damage to the wood ducks and moral damage to the hunter, and all fellow hunters who condone him. No same person could find anything but minus value in such "sport". ( Page 372) in this passage Leopold is suggesting that hunters use the "go-light" or "one-bullet-one-buck" idea because then it will seem more valuabel to you. there for revaluing wildlife. In conclusion, it is Leopold's belief that the value and connection to wildlife is changing due to the fact that to out American culture, and technology, wildlife is no longer considered a necessity so we take advantage of it.

In my view, Leopold is absolutely right because I personally find many values in wildlife and don't think people should treat it as a game. Because although most wildlife is renweable, witht the rate we destrou it, it will soon have no value to anyone. For example, people in different cultures use wildlife to survive and as a necessity. Now people in out culture have more that thier means, and yet take more than those who acually need it. Although Leopold might object that no one needs to hunt or chop down trees, I maintain that we have plenty of other ways of doing things without destroying wildlife. We kill more than enough animals as it is, just to put into a supermarket, that way people shoudn't have to go kill thier own, especially if it is just for fun. Therefore I conclude that it is very important to realize that we need the wildlife and that we shouldn't play around with such a delicate system because you never know what will happen to it if we don't change.

I don't think they're going to eat all of those. I imagine a starving wolf or fox would of enjoyed them.