I thought I’d heard every possible tactic that anti-hunters use to ban hunting, until I read the article in today’s paper (Monitor, 3/16). I can sympathize with the person who made this proposal to the city recently. I live right around the corner from the April 2022 murder scene and hike those trails frequently. Also, last year I found, not once, but twice, an entire deer carcass dumped within 15 feet of a public road in Loudon last fall. These were deer that had obviously been hastily butchered to remove most of the choice parts of the animal without touching the entrails. It was not something that any ethical hunter would do.

On both occasions, I called New Hampshire Fish & Game. Eventually, those remains were removed. Whether this was done by F&G or coyotes I’ll never know. I’d like to commend the Concord Conservation Commission for making the correct decision when this was dropped in their lap by the city. If you do a cost/benefit analysis on the North American Model of Wildlife Conservation, you’ll see that the good far outweighs the bad. Finally, I’d be curious to know, when these entrails were found? Was it recently? Deer season has been over for three months now. If they were found since then, what the person should’ve done if they really cared about New Hampshire’s wildlife was call F&G to report an incident of poaching.

Dan Williams

Concord

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