The herd management and land management is, in my estimation, a pretext at best for folks that like to shoot ####. 9 times out of 10 these occur where there are no herds, yet I have acknowledged, forthrightly, and at least, that the point is out there, sometimes. As for land management it destroys ecosystems, but then so too ranching if that is what it will be replaced with. No, folks do this because they like shooting living targets, the rest is all cover in my opinion.
As for who put me on a pedestal, no one, other than myself. I am there because I needed the view for perspective, not to be looked up to. You seek to insult me, so be it. I don't hope to appeal to everyone. Regardless of my ethos in such matters I do not try to dissuade others, legislatively, or through court action, from such activity. I try not to interfere with others unless they are directly impinging upon my rights, not my sensibilities, but my rights. Sometimes those matters can get conflated, but I work with the light given to me up on this pedestal.