"On a Monument to the Pigeon"

In "On a Monument to the Pigeon" by Aldo Leopold, the writer discusses the extinction of the Passenger Pigeon. Leopold talks about the effects of the disappearance of the pigeon, and gives us reasons why we should care about it. Leopold talks about our grandparents being the only ones who can remember the pigeons, but yet our grandfathers are the ones who killed them off. He discusses the rapid decrease of Passenger Pigeons in a short time. Leopold writes in a sad, sappy tone to try and gain the emotions of the reader. He also talks a lot about what could have been if the pigeons were still around. Leopold also focuses on Wisconsin since that is where the monument is located, but he also brings the attention to other states across the midwest. Leopold brings attention the topic of hunting. He tries to draw the line of how much hunting is too much and how much control should we have over the population. Leopold state that there was an ample population of the pigeons and that could be a reason for their extinction. He states that farmers and people did not pay much attention to the amount of pigeons killed because there was so many of them, but then before people knew it they were near extinction. I believe that hunting is definitely ok to help control the population because animals can die of starvation and things like that from a lack of resources, but I think there should be more of a restrictive limit on hunting so that numbers are more closely watched and do not have dramatic drops.