Schaefer, Jack
Jack Schaefer: a professional journalist and student of the Amerrican West. He is the author of Heroes Without Glory; Mavericks; Old Ramon; Mony Walsh, and Collected Stories.

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I do not even know the man's name, but I wish him a long and joyous life. His car's tank had just been filled at the service station and he was in a hurry to depart, but he wanted to make a final point in the conversation he had been having with the station attendant. "Did you ever stop to think,' he said as he ducked into his car, "that there's no bag limit on looking?" An American Bestiary, 1975.

Hunters and fishermen. Hunting and fishing fees. A fascinating motive behind this for psychologists to study: preserve a species so that there will always be some to be killed. Selective about this too. Ibid.

Withhold protection from other predators so that their numbers will be reduced toward extinction and thus you will have an excuse, a rationale, for your own killing of what would have been their prey. Ibid.

All vegetarian mammals in the wild are subject to predation, but I believe the statement is sound that here in North America E. doratum (the porcupine) suffers the least from it. Ibid.