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Characteristics and Success of South Dakota Archery Deer Hunters
… were sent to South Dakota archery deer hunters after the 1981 archery deer season. One questionnaire was sent to a random sample of all bowhunters, and the second was sent to a sample of bowhunters failing to return the South Dakota Department of Game, Fish, and Parks (SDGFP) mandatory …
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Elk and Deer Hunters in Washington State: Affiliations and Ethical Behavior
… assumption that the primary factor motivating hunters is harvesting more animals. However, this study has found that the primary motivations are actually socializing with friends and family and enjoying the outdoors. The Washington Master Hunter Permit Program was created to provide further …
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Hunters' responses to chronic wasting disease: specialization, social trust, and perceived risk
… Little is known about the extent to which hunters: (a) would hunt in other states or quit hunting in response to CWD and whether this behavior differs among subgroups of hunters, and (b) perceive personal risks from CWD and the influence of trust in wildlife agencies as a determinant of …
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The killer shepherds: hunters as pastoral figures in the Early National period
This dissertation explores the role of the backwoods hunter in American literature and culture during the Early National period, especially as it was embodied by Daniel Boone and by James Fenimore Cooper’s Natty Bumppo. I use these figures to examine how popular perceptions of the sustenance hunter …
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Surveys of Citizens Attitudes Towards Hunting, Hunters and Wildlife in South Dakota
… in hunting and the actual number of hunters has declined. The objectives of this study were to characterize South Dakota's present hunter population, to provide information concerning the next generation or so of hunters, and to determine attitudes of five groups of South Dakota …
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HUNTERS IN THE GARDEN: YUP’IK SUBSISTENCE AND THE AGRICULTURAL MYTHS OF EDEN
Yup’ik writers and Yup’ik subsistence offer valuable challenges, parallels, and alternative models to mainstream nature writing’s discourse surrounding human relationships to the land, a discourse that carries an inherent agricultural bias. An introduction to western Alaska’s Nunivak Island …
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HUNTERS IN THE GARDEN: YUP’IK SUBSISTENCE AND THE AGRICULTURAL MYTHS OF EDEN
Yup’ik writers and Yup’ik subsistence offer valuable challenges, parallels, and alternative models to mainstream nature writing’s discourse surrounding human relationships to the land, a discourse that carries an inherent agricultural bias. An introduction to western Alaska’s Nunivak Island …
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Plan de mejoramiento para la gestión del direccionamiento estratégico en Market Hunters Ltda
… se realizó un análisis situacional de Market Hunters Ltda, empresa dedicada a la comercialización de aceites y aditivo que a su vez presta servicios de asistencia automotriz. Basado en el ambiente percibido en el técnicentro, la entrevista con el gerente y los resultados encontrados en la …
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Evaluating the homogeneity of preferences across resident and nonresident elk hunters in Colorado
Competition between resident and nonresident elk hunters in Colorado vying for hunting permits has led to much debate about the equitability of the current allocation of permits between the two parties. This study evaluates whether or not resident and nonresident hunters have the same preferences …
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Song hunters in Svaneti: Musical tourism and other intercultural encounters in highland Georgia
This dissertation analyzes the continuities and disjunctures between pre-socialist, socialist, and neoliberal Georgia, as exemplified in intersubjective, intracultural, and intercultural encounters between singers and musicians. It approaches these dynamics through an in-depth ethnographic …
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Mutualism between honeyguides, beekeepers and honey-hunters in the southern highlands of Tanzania
… use a specialised chattering call to guide honeyhunters to bees' nests, which honey-hunters harvest with the help of smoke and tools. Honey-hunters increase their harvesting yield by finding bees' nests with the help of honeyguides, and honeyguides feed on leftover beeswax. The relationship …
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The people or the place? : revitalization / gentrification in San Francisco's Bayview Hunters Point
… minority neighborhoods of Bayview and Hunters Point, San Francisco, are facing the prospect of an uncertain future. The next few years will bring to the neighborhood intense private and public investment in largely market-rate residential developments, large-scale commercial …
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An Economic Valuation of South Dakota Wetlands As A Recreation Resource for Resident Hunters
… wetlands in South Dakota and the population of hunters that utilize them. Characteristics of importance include; number of resource users, geographic relationship between user populations and the resource, the quantity and quality of the resource, and resource ownership (Hammack and Brown 1974, …
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Factors influencing hunter recruitment, participation, and retention of male and female hunters in Illinois
… During recent decades, the number of female hunters has increased and to a degree mitigated the reduction in hunter population. Increased in female participation has prompted numerous studies, yet these studies primarily focused on females who hunt rather than comparing males and females …
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The social and gender identity of gatherer-hunters and herders in the Southwestern Cape
… between Khoi herders and San gatherer-hunters. I use the active processes of identity formation and maintenance to argue that both the isolationist and revisionist arguments have simplified the concepts of identity, where identity is seen to have a passive role in interaction. I argue …
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Ducks and Deer, Profit and Pleasure: Hunters, Games and the Natural Landscapes of Medieval Italy
… dynamics (techniques) of different groups of hunters were closely interconnected. This mutuality is central to understanding hunting. It also deeply affected consumption, the ultimate reason behind hunting. In all cases, although hunting was a marginal activity, it did not stand in isolation …
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The Mesolithic hunters of the Trentino: a case study in hunter-gatherer settlement and subsistence
… Butchery data are considered as evidence for hunters obtaining important sources of nutrition, including carbohydrates and vitamins, through marrow and bone grease extraction (e.g.Speth 1991). Mesolithic stone tools are examined in terms of the risks of failing to kill or capture hunted …
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Understanding cultural perceptions of nature and related constraints to hunting participation among African American male hunters
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2026-05-01
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