Swan Valley Journal Book

Overall a functional foundation for hunting ethics and basic concepts of safety, especially for someone with no back ground in hunting. Posewitz does set the hunter up for moral high ground.

On the other hand the book had several short comings. It had too little emphasis placed on the meat harvesting aspect of hunting and the obligation that creates to use the animal, Posewitz also didn't address "meat hunting" as a response to the trophy hunting culture which he critiques. He is particularly harsh on several style of hunting more prevalent in the South, creating food plots to hunt over/high fence hunting/selective breeding programs, which I thought were unmerited and written from the perspective of the Western hunter.

Most importantly Posewitz seems to be cowed by the popular sentiment of nonhunters which I believe should be of minimal importance when making determinations about the ethical harvesting of animals.