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...Kalbfleish watches the shooting from a small hill while registering members and handing out club literature. The V.H.A.'s logo, printed on window stickers and patches sewn onto hunter's shirts and caps, shows a prairie dog encircled by the motto "Courtesy. Camaraderie. Conservation." To Kalbfleish, varminting means all of these, but mostly it's about "accuracy." And fun. "Is there any nobility to it? No," he says. "But I don't see any nobility to the other side either, which is, Don't shoot them. My position is, You go do what you want to do, and that...
Varminters argue that they help farmers and ranchers by killing pests that would otherwise die slowly from traps or poison. The V.H.A.'s president, Ned Kalbfleish, 50, says his critics are hypocrites who don't mind trapping mice or spraying roaches and yet threaten him with violence for stalking a creature he calls "the prairie rat." A Vietnam veteran and computer-systems analyst, Kalbfleish insists no amount of shooting can wipe out thriving prairie-dog populations, and he brands as "bad science" the Federal Government's efforts to list the creature as endangered...
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