Hunters Are the Real Environmentalists

From Worldcrunch:

This forthright memoir quickly found a wide audience — Americans are so fond of initiation journeys. Lily Raff McCaulou describes her growing respect for her new fellow hunters. Still, hunters are killers, right? “They are truly invested in protecting their surroundings. In a sense, I see them as true environmentalists. I was impressed and I wanted to be like them,” she writes in an email. In the book, she also describes her first years as a predator, as well as her friends’ and family’s incomprehension when they found out about her new hobby