The Secret at Seven Rocks,

Nancy and others are at the Village of Seven Rocks up in the Rocky Mountain. They visit an animal refuge and find a very nice woman who runs it and a very nasty boy who works there. Things begin to go wrong at the refuge with a barn set on fire and a mountain lion that someone has tried to poison. In addition to these problems the owner is in a major argument with a guy who runs a hunting program which, of course, is exactly the opposite in purpose to an animal refuge.

More things go wrong when a black bear is allowed free. Nancy, as usual, ends up kidnapped. Five prisoners escape from a prison but four of them are caught, leaving one in the area. Someone tries to drive Nancy and her friends into a ditch (they're walking, usually the thug tries to drive them into a ditch while they are driving.)

Then the boy from the refuge disappears. It's all tied up in the end, of course.

Now, for my two cents worth about hunting. There are two times when hunting is allowable, in my opinion. First is when someone actually needs the food that they hunt for. Maybe they lack almost all money or something else is wrong, but when they kill it and plan to eat it, that's understandable.

The other time is when the hunting is absolutely necessary in order to keep a big group of animals from starving to death. This happens when you have a group of animals like deer who are in an area where there are no natural predators and their population grows so large that they are in danger of dying out from not being able to find enough food.

I once lived near a forest where deer hunting was going to be allowed. A letter was sent out from the local government that the deer population was four or five times the figure that could actually survive in that particular area. It was either kill them or starve them (and also have an increase in the number of deer vs. car accidents.) In that case it was again understandable.

But, in my opinion, again, to go out to hunt animals just to hunt animals and not to bring them back and give them as food to others is an act of cowardice. To take animals on with high-tech weapons is another act of cowardice. If you are going to hunt, use a bow-and-arrow. If you don't know how to use one then learn.

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