As a consumptive user myself .I ask each of us to define this word --Consumptive and look how it effects your life as a hunter .We see the decline of deer ,moose ,elk etc.. each year .We ask ourselfs how can we manage our resources ?

why ? predator numbers continue to flourish. Killing the deer ,elk ,moose .What is needed is predator management

 Ask your hunting buddies will there be enought game animals to hunt next year

CC, couldn't agree with you more.  It would be very easy to place the blame on the "tree huggers" who are adament about protecting species and curtailing hunting as much as possible, but we share a portion of the blame as hunters.  We have spent too many years pursuing game animals and not enough pursuing the predators.  While I do not advocate a wholesale slaughter of the predatory speceis, we owe it to the game that we pursue to help main control and a healthy balance in numbers of predator versus prey.