If you own land that has its own herd of elk, you might be able to make some serious cash letting somebody else shoot your surplus.

Material goods take resources to create, and people only need so much. Anything more is a "feelgood", wasted. I realize this is anathema to poorer Conservatives, yet the wealthy Conservatives I count as friends live quite frugally.

That's true enough as far as it goes. Where I have problems is when somebody else gets to decide what I need or don't need, and force it on me. Especially when many of those lecturing me on conservation and waste (this doesn't refer to anyone here) are not cutting their own extravagant lifestyles any. A remarkably large number of people who talk "green" and fly private jets are not conservatives.