hunting
Number of Women Hunters Increasing
From National Geographic: The total number of women hunters surged by 25 percent between 2006 and 2011, after holding steady for a decade, according to Census Bureau statistics. At last count, 11 percent of all U.S. hunters were women, compared to 9 percent in 2006.
Hunters Are the Real Environmentalists
From Worldcrunch: This forthright memoir quickly found a wide audience — Americans are so fond of initiation journeys. Lily Raff McCaulou describes her growing respect for her new fellow hunters. Still, hunters are killers, right? “They are truly invested in protecting their surroundings. In a sense, I see them as true environmentalists. I was impressed and I wanted to be like them,” she writes in an email. In the book,…