I think it's interesting to see that even back then, there was ethical debates regarding hunting. I wonder if the lack of game and hunting's association with aristocracy is what drew the American settlers into doing things like hunting pigeons with the community.

This description reminds me of an article I read about how expansionists had to essentially battle swarms of locusts out west. I wonder if the difficulties of clearing out land like that reinforced industrialist ideas that clearing out the land was improving it.

This depiction kind of reminds me of the reading we did about early settlers who assumed the land to be plentiful. In this case, it's almost detrimental for them to deal with wild pigeons regularly.