I can start off by saying that i sympathize with all that use this specific blog often, and i like some of the articles, too, but this seems familiar. F&S decided to test a new blog, and it worked well for awhile, but now it just isn't generating as much interest.
At the same time that i am saddened, i can see where F&S is coming from with this.
Think about it, David Petzal's blogs gets 60-70 comments every time, but this blog gets 20 on a good one.
I would like to see it back, though.
It was a good idea to put it on the message board, though.

Nate

You miss the point Nate, the 60-70 responses Petzal gets are generally from men such as you and I. The 20 or 15 or 10 or 1 that responds to this blog is more than likely a female or someone interested in bringing a female into the outdoor community. As men we respond to Petzal with arguments from opinion or experience, those that responded to this blog were showing an interest in getting outdoors or looking for a way to welcome their wives or daughters into the outdoors. I believe that that was/is a more lofty goal and more likely to save our sport in the future.

jcarlin there absolutely is something you can do. You have already written the editors and that is awesome! Go back to the Home Stretch blog and look at the post at the bottom that has the email address for Gerber Knives. I will choose an advertiser from the mag every day and post contact info. Email them and tell them that F&S's decision is eroding the value of their marketing investment by reducing the number of people who will view their ads in the mag. You can also go to the Message Board and post your support to the "Ladies in distress" thread that asks people to show their support by their willingness to pay a bit more for subsciptions if they keep the blog.
We need to fight this and not just give in to a feeling of helplessness. The people have power! Use it.

It deeply saddens me to see you go but there is light at the end of the tunnel, through message boards, you will still be alive and well and still play a big role in Field and Stream. I hope all is well and that maybe even they re-consider their decision. I have already written a letter asking them to please re-thing their decision. Although I know I might have no say, a little part of me hopes that if enough letters are sent, they will get the message.

Good grief what's with all the cyber tears and first name basis'? You guys are getting a little to serious about this. Step back and take it into perspective. Business is business.

The advertiser of the day is Simms, the people who make waders, boots, clothing, etc. You can send an email to them at info@simmsfishing.com . Please email them and let them know that a publication where they spend their marketing money is contemplating a decision that is very likely to make those dollars less effective. I know a lot of people are likely to cancel or not renew subscriptions to F&S if they follow through thereby decreasing the exposure to the ads that Simms pays for.
Include the words Save The Huntress in the subject line of the email so they know what we are talking about.
Rally up! I already sent mine.

Kim, what will become of you?

Please know that I think F&S's decision to eliminate your blog is an act of greedy, sexist, cowardly corporate stupidity, and I've said so in print (now for the third time) on this blog and on a F&S message board. (Will F&S's corporate cretins read it? Or are they too arrogant and stupid to feel a critical foundation of their economic existence--us readers and subscribers of F&S--shifting like loose sand out from beneath them?)

Truth: Nothing makes me happier than to see my daughter at ease in the wilds, enjoying the beauty around her, absorbing the glories and wonders of our natural world.

It doesn't matter to me if she ever takes a shot with any of her three rifles--though she is an excellent shot.

It doesn't matter to me if we ever catch a fish--for we are both hopelessly inept fisherpersons who end up laughing like hell while the fish throw the hooks, evade us, and generally kick our collective ass.

What does matter to me is that your blog enabled me to break ice with my teenage daughter in a time where she doesn't want to talk to either of her divorced parents very often, and it helped get both her and I out in the wilds together, and happily, time and again.

That's worth far more to me (and, I suspect, to 99% of the readers here) than any corporate buck ever earned, wasted, bribed, bought or soul-sold-for, anywhere and anytime in this country.

So my thanks to you, Huntress. Keep up your writing. Keep in touch with us, your loyal readers. And know that we're on your side and that we'll continue to stand by you--even as we also tell F&S's corporate cretins to take a long hike . . . and not bother to return from it.

I ask again: What will become of you?

T.W. Davidson