This book explores the contentious debate between preserving game and protecting foxes, a topic that has divided shooting and hunting communities historically. The author, an expert in his field, provides a balanced and impartial perspective, acknowledging the need for game preservation to sustain hunting, while also recognizing the importance of protecting foxes as essential to the ecosystem. Drawing on first-hand observations, the book offers practical advice on how to safeguard game birds during nesting season and protect young pheasants from foxes, including innovative techniques not widely known. The author emphasizes the importance of understanding fox behavior and employing humane methods to manage their presence without resorting to extermination. This book is an indispensable guide for gamekeepers, hunters, and landowners seeking to strike a balance between these competing interests, offering an insightful and practical exploration of a complex and enduring issue.
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Excerpt from Game and Foxes: Or, the Protection of Foxes Not Incompatible With the Preservation of Game
The subject of the joint preservation of game. And foxes has long been a bone of contention between the respective votaries Of shooting and hunting, and for this reason it is a theme which few have attempted to deal with exhaustively, for fear of incurring the displeasure of one or both the disputing parties: It is a difficulty, however, which for many reasons ought to be faced; and, while making an attempt in the following pages to solve the vexed question, the writer is not without hope that the advice which he ventures to give will, if accepted, go far to allay that feeling of irritation which in many hunting districts at the present day too often prevails.
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Paperback. Condición: New. Print on Demand. This book explores the contentious debate between preserving game and protecting foxes, a topic that has divided shooting and hunting communities historically. The author, an expert in his field, provides a balanced and impartial perspective, acknowledging the need for game preservation to sustain hunting, while also recognizing the importance of protecting foxes as essential to the ecosystem. Drawing on first-hand observations, the book offers practical advice on how to safeguard game birds during nesting season and protect young pheasants from foxes, including innovative techniques not widely known. The author emphasizes the importance of understanding fox behavior and employing humane methods to manage their presence without resorting to extermination. This book is an indispensable guide for gamekeepers, hunters, and landowners seeking to strike a balance between these competing interests, offering an insightful and practical exploration of a complex and enduring issue. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work, digitally reconstructed using state-of-the-art technology to preserve the original format. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in the book. print-on-demand item. Nº de ref. del artículo: 9781332261949_0
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