Wildly Pink

Hunting is Conservation
Conservation helps maintain the world as we know it by preserving the ecosystems that provide us with oxygen and food. Conservation helps ensure that natural resources are available for future generations. These resources are important for the economy, society, and our existence. Conservation helps prevent the waste of natural resources and maintain a quality environment.
Hunting can also be an instinct that serves to sustain people and their communities. 
Hunting benefits the economy, provides funding for conservation and wildlife management, and promotes a healthier lifestyle.
 
Hunting can help manage the population of deer, which can help restore the balance of an ecosystem and protect other species. When deer populations become too large, they can threaten other species and human health and safety. For example, deer can browse agricultural areas, and deer-vehicle collisions can be dangerous. Hunting can also help prevent deer from eating gardens.
Hunting can also help control conflicts between humans and wildlife. Animals can become habituated to humans, which can lead to property damage and harmful encounters. Hunting is also the most humane way for deer to die, as opposed to being hunted, killed in car accidents, or starving.
Hunters also play a role in managing the size of animal populations, which can help protect natural resources. The billions of dollars generated by hunting also support businesses and provide jobs. 

Mom's first harvest!

My mom harvested her first deer before me, on the last day of deer season. On our way headed to the blind I saw Owen, my mom's mentor, and I said, Owen are you going to get a deer today? Owen then placed the cross bow over his shoulder and didn't utter a word. My mom and I still laugh about that interaction, but sure enough my mom did harvest a deer, and she was proud, but Owen was as well.

Pink Joy!

Safety First!

Hunting Family!

Connecting through the love of hunting.

Finally!

After 2 seasons and hoping for the best every time I walked in a blind, I harvested my first deer.

Mentees need Mentors!

The blind is nothing more than a dinner table. That's the place where you share your authentic self, whether the joys of life, the disappointments of the day, or the hope for a better you. Somehow, we just connected, we learned from each other, and we challenged the stereotypes of what it means to be connected from different hills. When you're a mentee, you literally place your life in the hands of someone you just met. But it's something special and endearing about the mentee and mentor relationship. It speaks to stretching ourselves beyond ourselves, beyond our neighborhood's, and beyond the world's view on what matters.

That's the blind!