I would like to announce that as a young person I hunted for food

[hollowdweller]

34. In WV the deer herd is the one natural resource that is used to the benefit of all citizens.

Coal, fucks up the land, coal trucks tear up the road. Pollutes the air and only provides a few jobs.

Timber tears up the land, the landowner doesn't get much out of the timber, timber provides even fewer jobs.

You can fish but there are limits due to the high mercury levels of how many you can eat and of what.

With deer you can bag several a year. If you hunt on your own land you do not have to buy a hunting license. I know people that probably 25% of the meat they eat is venison

I haven't shot one this year but probably should. We are having the worst mast crop in like 40 years. There's no deer in the woods they are all down in my field they say a bunch may starve this winter. Of course at my house they are eating corn I put out for the chickens, and my fruit trees.