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“A peculiar virtue in wildlife ethics is that the hunter obviously has no gallery to applaud or disapprove of this conduct. Whatever his acts, they are dictated by his own conscious, rather than a mob of onlookers. It is difficult to exaggerate the importance of this fact.”
Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac.

A few days after North Dakota Hunters for Fair Chase filed papers with the Secretary of State requesting authorization to circulate petitions to place the initiative on the ballot, the high fence operators accused members of the Fair Chase Committee of being animal rights activists. And if we were not animal rights activists, we were a front for animal rights groups with the ultimate goal of banning hunting in North Dakota.

Are we hunters, or are we the secretive conspiratorial front for animals rights groups that the high fence operators accuse us of being?

Do we want to ban all hunting in North Dakota?

The following pictures represent a cross section of the Fair Chase Committee along with family and supporters. Based on these pictures, the people serving on the committee would be dishonorably discharged from the ranks of any animal rights group.

A picture is worth a thousand words. Decide for yourselves.

NOTE: What the high fence operators do behind their fences is not hunting. Do not insult real hunters by insinuating that killing an animal behind a fence is hunting.