There is no evidence of this.
No what you mean is there no evidence of this where your from. It's as obvious as this.
Who do you think appreciates cars more, the kid who crossing the costco parking lot on saturday with his dad, or the one that spends half the day with his dad in a garage fixing his hot rod..
The intimate interaction with nature and the intensity of the experience is what creates the respect. When your cold in the woods for hours without food, with nothing but squirls to keep you company, you grow a respect for large game.
There are more hunters around me than probably anywhere in the US. Right now as I type this, I hear gunfire and it won`t stop until around 9-10 PM. They all use big trucks and drive on the land to get to their spots so I fail to see how that is doing any good to the terrain. Just last week we had two band together that were lost and attack a deer outside my window and try to bring it down because they were hungry.
Meh this depends on where you live.
Where I grew up everyone hunts. Yet you never hear gunshots if you did, that means the moose can hear em and so no one is catching anything.
It's not easy it takes days not hours, and you only get one kill per season.
Granted if it's super market style hunting I could understand.
But when you actually have to track your target, and spend days it's totally different.
They are just schmucks with guns in the woods.
Again we have american tourist come up here on hunting expeditions all the time, no one really cares what they're like, they bring a whole lot of money into our economy.
Regardless my dad and everyone he knows spends a majority of their time in the woods. It's just a lifestyle they live. To think they don't understand or connect with nature is absurd.
