I second and third Steve’s recommendation to watch this vid. Our CO BHA chapter bought a few copies of the dvd some years ago and we’re passing it around. Thomas Downing currently has my copy, and is sharing it with his sons and hunters to be. All thoughtful trad bowhunters should take advantage of watching “Green Fire” (and share it with our nonhunting wives) on the link Steve provides. Leopold was IMHO inarguably the single most important figure in sportsman-conservation philosophy in N. America, and the fact that he was a bowhunter and bowyer makes him even more “one of us.” Thanks, Steve, for sharing this good and important news. A few years ago, when I attended the WS trad bowhunters’ annual convention at some awful water park, I had the privilege of driving almost within sight of Leopold’s Sand County “shack,” and even then felt deeply honored and humbled. From my situation of great curiosity but mediocre intellect, I am left with jaw-dropping envy of men like Leopold, Sagan, Paul Shepard, and others who look at the same things I do, yet see so very much more.
