Category: General
Peeping Tom Pinched by Trailcam
The West Baton Rouge, LA Sheriff’s Office arrested a man accused of trying to sneak a peek at a woman getting dressed in Port Allen. The neighbor had set up a trailcam and found one Randy Thigpen on all fours stealing a cheap thrill. He awaits trial here…
NOAA Undercover Boat Uncovered
Here we have a 35-foot, 14-passenger boat purchased for a measley $300,000 by the feds with the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS). Funding was from money seized from violator-fishermen. Oh, but what’s interesing is how this water craft is being used. To raise your blood pressure, click here…
Another Cabela’s for Michigan
It will be Cabela’s second retail store in Michigan, joining the Dundee location on the east side of the state. Construction is expected to start this summer in Grandville, with completion in spring 2013. More here…
Vegan Turns to Hunting, Writes Book
A vegan-turned-hunter reignites the connection between humans and their food sources and continues the dialogue begun by Michael Pollan and Barbara Kingsolver in his newly released book, The Mindful Carnivore: A Vegetarian’s Hunt for Sustenance
As a boy, Tovar Cerulli spent his summers fishing for trout and hunting bullfrogs. While still in high school, he began to experiment with vegetarianism. By the age of twenty he was a vegan. A decade later, in the face of declining health, he returned to omnivory and within a few years found himself headed into the woods, rifle in hand. Read more
US Forest Service Announces Plans to Replace Aging Large Airtankers
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Forest Service announced today a strategy, developed with input from the Department of the Interior, to replace the fleet of aging air tankers used to battle wildfires with a next generation of newer, faster, more cost-effective large airtankers. Read more
Jury Agrees with Fred Trost’s Widow
Sherry Trost, widow of late Michigan outdoor show host Fred Trost, said his son promised to pay $109,000 in back taxes and loans owed by his father in exchange for tapes and memorabilia from the shows. Mom had to sue her own son and the jury’s in. More here…
Anti-Dove Hunting Bill Introduced in Iowa
Sure sounds a lot like what happened in Michigan a few years back. Big money from big, national animal rights organization HSUS paid for TV spots depicting sportsmen as anti-dove hunting. Over 2.1 million flowed into the debate pitting science against emotion.
Emotion won by a 70 to 30 percent “victory” in a referendum vote to discontinue a newly adopted dove season, which was to be on a test basis with wildlife biologists to evaluate effects. It never made it that far.
It’s odd how anti “big-anything” lefties never seem to complain when they have the almighty dollar talking for them.
Attack on Number One Game Bird Continues in Iowa
For more than a decade, sportsmen in Iowa fought for the opportunity to pursue North America’s number one game bird – the mourning dove. Last year, the hard work and dedication finally paid off as the Iowa legislature passed Senate File 464 authorizing dove hunting in the state. Now, just months after the first successful dove hunt, anti-hunting activists are pushing to have the season banned.
On January 19th, State Representative Mary Mascher (D-Iowa City) introduced House File 2061 that would prohibit dove hunting in the state. Read more
Family of outdoors host Fred Trost in fight over debts, show tapes
Outdoor TV show host Fred Trost died a few years ago and now his family is slugging it out over debts and assets.
Sherry Trost, who married Fred in 1988, alleges that Trost’s son promised to pay her $109,000 to cover back taxes and loans owed by his father in exchange for the shows’ tape library and memorabilia she owned.
Fred Trost had promised his wife that if they took ownership, he would repay debts with an expected inheritance but Fred Trost died before receiving the inheritance. Now it’s he said she said, because Fred left no will. More here…
Macomb Twp. Man Rescued after Falling Through Ice
A 58 year-old Michigan man was rescued Wednesday after falling through ice in an attempt to save his dog, which had fallen through. Story and video here…