Most every hunter or angler I ever met had every bit as deep an interest in one area of natural history of another as any other naturalist of my acquaintance. Indeed, were it not for such famous hunters and anglers of years past, we would not have some of the important collections in natural history museums that we do today.
Never before in the known history of the land now encompassed by the boundaries of the U.S. have there been so many White-tailed Deer roaming across the land; quite an ironic thing to state considering that little more than a century ago there were well-founded concerns that the species would become extinct.