Hunter or Tormentor?

When I said I was going to get a little activist friendly I did have something specific in mind and here it is:
    I live in the White Mountain National forest in N.H..I have been living here for exactly three years now. I have gotten a birds I view of the hunters life style and how he hunts. I can tell you that they keep dogs in shabby dog houses on a chain all year long (except hunting season). This includes the freezing cold winters that hit zero consistently and can top at 20 below zero. These dogs get no love, no warmth and they are extremely happy to get any food that comes their way. I cant imagine, wondering weather or not your person is going to show up with your once a day meal or not, while chained to your dog house (being the dog). During hurican Irene last year, one of these hunters (won't mention names) left his dogs out in the storm while every thing around them flooded. He did not go out and get the dogs until the dog house was floating, while the dog was chained to it.
    O.k. with that said now I have to go the opposite end of the spectrum and side with the poor animals being hunted by these dogs.  Out here they hunt bear;deer, turkey, and moose. Some say it is for the meet, but lets be real, bear meat. They are in it for the sport and the hunting dogs are relentless. Of course these dogs do what they are trained to do (they want that bowl of food ) and that is to tree bears, so the hunter can shoot them. Yes this is legal (per-say) if they follow the guidelines and use the lottery. Only hunters that win the bear (and other game lotto) lottery are allowed to kill bears. Their is supposedly 4800 bears in N.H. and these hunters are aloud to kill up to 10% of them. They killed approximately 400 last year and are gunning for more this year I'm sure. They call this population control. We should all be glad I guess that they don't do that to us who live here (never say never, karma in real).
     As you see I did my home work on the hunting. I really do not think what they do is right or fair. It gets worse than this. While living in the White Mountains I got to know quit a bit of wild life up here (originally from southern NH). I have spent numerous hours with the animals around my house. We have feral cats, raccoons, foxes, woodpeckers, humming birds, flying squirrels (yes their real), deer and bear. The cats, raccoons, flying squires, Foxes and bear all live in harmony with each other. They would all show up every night and grass for  the cracked corn I would throw out in the yard. Even the bear would peacefully forage. The raccoons ate right beside the bear and the foxes would be in and out of the yard with their babies. Did you know a fox will eat seeds? In fact they seem to love them.
       So with this said I can attest to the harmony that life can obtain when life is not starving  or desperate. They were all their for the same reason and that was to eat. In this they were all family. The mother fox would come with her baby and the bear too; now neither come and I'll tell you why; the bear hunters. Bear hunting starts on Sept. 1st, but the hunters were out with their dogs as of August 1st chasing the bears. This to must have upset the fox family as well. Every one was telling me this was normal and they call it running the bears. They say they do not kill them, just get them in the practice of running them (the dogs or bears? Who knows?), but I'm finding a different view of the whole practice.
     These hunters (chasers at present) consistently say they are helping people by chasing the bears away from their homes. But these hunters who are chasing these bears into the National forest or other open woods aren't helping us or the bears; they are helping the hunting industry. They know that hunters can't hunt the bears in our back yards or at least a 1000 ft of any populated area. So what they are doing is driving the bears into areas where they can then hunt them, legally. It is deplorable and they torment those poor bears in both the summer and the hunting seasons. The bears had a huge shortage of food this years because of an early thaw and then refreeze. These bear were unusually thin in the mid summer months, part of why I was throwing out cracked corn and other seeds in to the woods. Plus they were eating out of the compost I tossed out. These bears are more afraid of us than many realize and now you know why. I had no clue how much humans terrorize these bears and its a crime against nature. The hunting authorities are just as bad. They aren't out to help the animals in,our state. They are not protecting them, they are using them to make money. One would think they were keeping track of the populations for the bears own good, not so at all. They are just watching for the bear head lotto to make money for the state offices, of which they are now one.
       As I had written before about us being a voice for these creatures, I meant it. I used to walk around in my yard while that beautiful adult bear grazed not 50 ft from me, knowing she wanted no trouble. Now she runs for her life, just because these guys have a thirst for blood and torment. I awoke this morning to the god awful sound of whaling and moaning.  I couldn't figure out the noise (besides dogs barking) and it was the frantic moaning of a treed bear screaming for help. I ran out side to the street and the owner saw me and called his dogs to jump in the truck and he scurried off in the opposite direction like a  mouse. But this isn't over, no way, I won't use dogs and fire-arms to hunt you hunters, I'm going to use the internet.
      If you are a hunter and you are insulted by this; (hear me) God is watching and you will answer to him. I always wondered why there were more animals on Noah's arc than there were people. Most likely because the needs of the animals on Noah's arc were pure (basic survival) while the needs of man were perverse and carnal pleasures, like hunting!