Overhead Costs

Jay Kirk’s “Killer Bunny in the Sky” [Letter from Massachusetts, March] was amusing, but the impact that hunters have on wildlife isn’t. Hunters use high-powered weaponry, tree blinds, mating calls, infrared sights, and other devices to trick animals into facilitating their own murder. Their prey often die slowly of blood loss, starvation, or gangrene.

The idea of using drones to monitor illegal hunting first came to us after we witnessed intoxicated hunters sitting in their trucks, waiting for unsuspecting does to come along so they could shoot them without having to get up. However, when a University of…