Category: Wildlife

Goldfinch

Osprey like football too!

Michigan residents aren’t the only ones enjoying football this fall. It turns out that osprey in northern Michigan like football, too – football lights, that is.

osprey platformMarion High School sits just outside of town, overlooking agricultural fields and Middle Branch River, which – with its many feeder streams – winds its way through the Osceola County countryside. A large mill pond near town holds a nice supply of fish.

“The osprey will drop fish right on the football field,” laughed Beth Robb, the Marion High School principal.

Marion High School had a historic problem with a pair of osprey nesting on its football stadium lights. Together, the Department of Natural Resources (DNR), Consumers Energy and Marion High School formed a plan to provide the osprey with a different location to call home. Read more

Wildlife

Big Brother PETA to Use Drones

By Glen Wunderlich

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has earned the number three ranking on the United States Sportsmen’s Alliance’s (USSA) dirty dozen list and for good reason:  PETA steadfastly encourages its members to break established hunter harassment laws and to interfere with hunts by protesting, blowing horns, and other unlawful acts.  Recent headlines indicate the group is striving to become number one on the dirty dozen list by its overt action to purchase drones to stalk hunters afield.

According to USSA, the drones will be sold in PETA’s catalog for $324.99. Based on the drone description in the catalog, PETA members can receive instant to-your-phone video from the drones, which can be streamed live via the Air Angels page on PETA.org.

PETA says it aims to specifically seek out hunters “drinking while in the possession of a firearm, injuring animals and failing to pursue them so that they die slowly and painfully, and using spotlights, feed lures and other hunting tricks”.

While PETA claims to be spying on “hunters”, the actions it seeks to exploit – to further its agenda by changing man’s relationship with animals – is actually directed at anti-hunters.  That’s right.  Anti-hunter is the only term for those that intentionally skirt the law by cheating ethical hunters.  The “by-any-means” practice reminds me of how our own government relied upon the same tactics. Read more

Animal Rights, Wildlife , ,

RMEF Grants Fund Michigan Projects

MISSOULA, Mont.–Funding to enhance elk habitat, reduce damage to private crops and sponsorship of various hunting heritage projects highlight the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation’s 2013 grants for the state of Michigan.   The grants total $28,500 and directly affect Cheboygan, Delta, Dickinson, Monroe, Montmorency, Oakland and Otsego Counties. There are also several projects of statewide interest. Read more

Hunting, Wildlife

Arizona Removes Mexican Wolf for Continued Livestock Depredation

GW:  Just think of the taxpayer expense involved.  And, more wolves are being introduced in Arizona.

PHOENIX — Personnel from the Mexican Wolf Reintroduction Project’s Interagency Field Team (IFT) yesterday captured and removed a male wolf, designated AM795, from the Paradise Pack in eastern Arizona to fulfill the non-lethal removal order that was issued by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) in September. Read more

Animal Rights, Wildlife

Hunting for the Sake of Meat

A recent survey of American hunters by the Responsive Management organization asked the question “what’s the single most important reason you hunt?”. More than 35% of the responses indicated that they primarily hunted for the meat. While the responses might not seem unusual, only 22% responded that way in 2006. Trophy hunting came in dead last at 1%.

There’s a major misconception about the purpose of trophy hunting. B&C supports the taking of trophies as a matter of big game management and scientific record. B&C has long supported selective hunting for mature animals that have already genetically contributed to overall herd health. Selective hunting also supports conservation and game management efforts when a balanced age structure within a given big game population is an objective of State wildlife managers.

Our record books are a standing testament as to the success of the North American Model for Wildlife Conservation, which was the result of the Boone and Crockett Club’s early efforts to establish conservation on this continent.

READ THE SURVEY RESULTS

Ammunition, Animal Rights, Firearms, Gun Control, Hunting, Wildlife

PETA Slams Duck Dynasty Stars for Popularizing Hunting

duckDynPosted on October 23, 2013

The popular TV series, Duck Dynasty, has captured the attention of the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), with the animal rights group criticizing the show for promoting hunting.    Photo credit www.foxnews.com

Duck Dynasty, a popular show on A&E, follows the lives of the Robertson family, owners of the Duck Commander duck call brand. Family members are seen sporting camouflage, building duck blinds, and often times follows the family into the field while hunting.

PETA’s Vice President Dan Mathews is speaking out against the show, claiming that hunting encourages would-be criminals. Read more

Ammunition, Animal Rights, Firearms, Gun Control, Hunting, Wildlife

Service Extends Comment Periods for Gray and Mexican Wolf Proposals, Reschedules and Adds Public Hearings

As a result of delays caused by the lapse in federal appropriations, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Thursday announced rescheduled dates for the remainder of a series of public hearings on two proposed rules-one to list the Mexican wolf as an endangered subspecies and delist the gray wolf elsewhere, and the other to improve recovery efforts for the Mexican wolf in the Southwest. Comment period deadlines also are extended until December 17 to allow these hearings to take place within the public comment periods on the proposed rules. Read more

Animal Rights, Hunting, Wildlife
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