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Alexis Lee
Mrs. DeBock
English 4 Honors
February 18, 2016
Essential Question: How does hunting positively affect the environment and youth?
Working Thesis: Hunting positively effects the environment and youth by providing a
constructive means to wildlife management and teaching the next generation how to thoroughly
appreciate nature and its offerings.
Refined Thesis: Hunting is crucial to the environment due to the positive effects it has on the
environment and its deep-rooted ability to teach young people discipline, patience, and how
appreciate nature and its offerings.
Annotated Bibliography
Eaton, Randall L. "Modern Hunters Are Stewards of Wildlife and the Environment." Hunting.
Ed. Dawn Laney. Detroit: Greenhaven Press, 2008. Opposing Viewpoints. Rpt. from
"Why Hunting Is Good Medicine for Youth, Society, and the Environment." Outdoor
Edge Magazine (2006). Opposing Viewpoints in Context. Web. 17 Feb. 2016.
In this article, Randall Eaton describes the relationship between hunters and the
environment. He comments on the different ways that hunters are [s]tewards of [w]ildlife and
the [e]nvironment and the many different ways in which modern day hunters have helped to
provide wildlife management in areas that are lack such management. Eaton also highlights the
relationship of hunting with culture and the instinctual ties that human beings have to hunting.

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The article also reflects on the learning opportunities that come with hunting for sport or to
provide sustenance. It emphasizes the different moral values that hunting teaches and also how to
strive for certain goals. This article will be helpful in showcasing some of the cognitive abilities
that hunting can help to develop in young people and its positive relationship with wildlife
management. It will also help to strengthen the thesis and rebuke the counter argument with its
proof that hunting is not related to violence in youth people.

Elman, Robert. "Conservation." Hunting Allies. Broomall, PA: Mason Crest, 2002. 41-61. Print.
In this chapter, Elman describes different hunting methods and how they are beneficial to
the environment and wildlife management. He gives a brief history of different hunting styles
and how they have evolved throughout history to today. Elman also discusses the importance of
hunting and its role in ensuring the next generation of animals is health and can be sustained by
the environment. This chapter talks about tagging methods to ensure that animals are not over
hunted and the different ways that law enforcement regulates hunter. Elman also talks about the
important revenue that hunting brings to rural areas and how tax money from hunting licenses
can be used to benefit the whole community. This chapter will be advantageous in describing
how hunting has evolved over time and also in giving a brief history of different hunting
methods and their effects on the environment and animal populations.

Guynn, Susan Talley, "Exploring and Measuring the Benefits of Hunting" (2015). All
Dissertations. Paper 1492.

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Ms. Guynns work aims to study the physiological benefits related to hunting. She
highlights the differences in hunter and non-hunters through the five basic levels of humans
needs: physiology, safety, love and belonging, self-esteem, and self-actualization. Her studies
describe in detail the findings of the many studies conducted in her research and their outcomes.
She describes the Nature-Human relationship and how this relationship is strengthened by
participating in hunting. For each area of the relationship she studied and tested she provides key
details that support the claims that hunting has a positive effect on the environment as well as
youth. Guynn also provides scales and models that reflect the findings mentioned throughout the
document and also compares the data to that of a non-hunter. This source will be crucial in
providing real world examples and data to back up the claims that hunting has a positive effect
on the environment and young people.

Levy, Sharon. "Hunting Plays a Crucial Role in Maintaining Natural Habitats and the
Environment." Hunting. Ed. Dawn Laney. Detroit: Greenhaven Press, 2008. Opposing
Viewpoints. Rpt. from "A Plague of Deer." Bioscience 56.9 (Sept. 2006): 718-721.
Opposing Viewpoints in Context. Web. 17 Feb. 2016.
The article, Hunting Plays a Crucial role in Maintaining Natural Habitats and the
Environment, mainly focuses on the benefit of hunting in maintaining a healthy animal
population, ensuring predators do not outnumber prey, controlling invasive species, and
encouraging diversity amongst the environment and animal population. Levy provides specific
examples of how and when hunting was used to conserve species that would have destroyed the
environment without proper management. The article also describes how hunting can be used to
control overpopulation in areas that are threatened by growing numbers in certain species. Levy

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also discusses the benefits hunters have on plant life as they help to maintain a well-balanced
ecosystem. This article will be helpful in supporting the statement that hunting helps the
environment due to the in-depth information it provides on overpopulation, invasive species, and
other factors of the environment.

Peterson, M. Nils. "Hunting Reconnects Humans with the Natural World." Animal Rights. Ed.
Noah Berlatsky. Farmington Hills, MI: Greenhaven Press, 2015. Current Controversies.
Rpt. from "How Hunting Strengthens Social Awareness of Coupled Human-Natural
Systems." Wildlife Biology in Practice 6.2 (2010). Opposing Viewpoints in Context. Web.
17 Feb. 2016.
In this article, Peterson comments on the positive effects that hunting has on is
participants and how it is linked to increase sense of awareness and a greater appreciation of life
in general. The article provides data for hunting in a social and political context and also how it
connects humans to their ancestral roots. The article also goes into detail on how hunting can be
a positive way to provide for ones family and the deep connection that hunters can possess with
harvesting their own meat. Peterson thoroughly describes humans relationship with hunting and
how it can have a positive influence on youth and their development into modern citizens. This
article will be crucial in proving how hunting positively effects youth and the different way in
which it will get them to develop into better, more aware citizens.

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"Preface to 'Does Hunting Have a Place in the Twenty-First Century?'." Hunting. Ed. Dawn
Laney. Detroit: Greenhaven Press, 2008. Opposing Viewpoints. Opposing Viewpoints in
Context. Web. 17 Feb. 2016.
The article, Preface to Does Hunting Have a Place in the Twenty-First Century?,
describes modern day hunting methods and their usefulness in society. The article describes the
debate over recreational hunting versus hunting for food. It describes how hunting can be useful
in providing the basic necessities for a family if the family is willing to put in the work for them.
The preface also comments on the rewards felt by hunting and how the experience can impact
people. It goes into a brief history of how hunting allowed human beings to evolve into the
modern day man and how the practice has changed with man. This article will be beneficial in
revoking the counter argument that hunting is inhumane and also proving the thesis that hunting
has a positive effect on the environment.