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Grip and Grin: Ethics and Emotions in Images

Sam Lungren
by Tovar Cerulli - Orion: The Hunter's Institute The image is familiar: A hunter crouches beside a dead deer, grinning into the camera. What do we make of this picture? We all see the hunter’s smile. We all see the beautiful animal, now dead. And we all recognize some connection between the two. From there, though, interpretations diverge wildly. Critics of hunting are apt to see mindless brutality. The hunter has killed, appears to have enjoyed killing, and now gloats over a carcass. ...
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From Backcountry Journal: Crazy Business

Don Thomas
Image courtesy of Don Thomas   Readers and BHA members outside of Montana may have never heard of the Crazy Mountains, although that is likely to change. One of Montana’s dozen isolated “island” ranges, the Crazies lie an hour’s drive northeast of Bozeman. They offer spectacular wilderness terrain and are home to native cutthroat trout, an over-objective elk herd, deer, mountain goats and large predators galore. Their current notoriety derives not from this natural bounty, but from a heated ...
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