My hometown paper serves this up: "Economic Rut Doesn't Faze State's Hunters." In which Joe Johnson says: "It's a way of life. I grew up hunting. I've hunted all my life and I'll die hunting. It might cost a little more but I'm going to hunt."
Missisippi's gun season opens Saturday. Growing up, I always thought of hunting and fishing -- along with gardening -- as ways to help feed the family. I think my grandparents still feel the same.
Now it seems wildlife officials have been worried that gas prices would keep hunters at home, and stop them from playing their expected role in the local ecology. "We can't afford a big decrease in harvest," said Chad Dacus, deer project coordinator for the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks. "We've got some lands where we need harvest increases or face (a habitat crash)."
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