Outdoor commentary and legislative issues.
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Sen. Jeff Siddoway (R-Terreton) proposed a bill last week that would allow Idahoans to hunt wolves from ultra-light aircraft and use live bait in traps. Interesting…this while animal-rights whackos use ultralights to harass hunters. More here…
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
PHOENIX — The National Fish and Wildlife Forensics Laboratory in Ashland, Oregon, has determined that Mexican wolf mp1242 died as the result of a gunshot wound.
On Nov. 23, 2011, Arizona Game and Fish Department personnel on the Mexican wolf Interagency Field Team (IFT) were contacted by Read more
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
Birding enthusiasts continued their quest Friday to get glimpses – and photographs – of an Asian hooded crane that arrived earlier this week at Goose Pond Fish & Wildlife Area near Linton in Greene County, Indiana, but the bird was proving elusive.
“It was around for a good two to three hours this morning, but nobody has seen it since,” Read more
Tucson, Arizona – Safari Club International’s 40th Annual Hunters’ Convention this year was the biggest and best ever. It has once again solidified its place as the premier convention in all of hunting. Read more
It’s not quite April Fool’s Day, but someone took the bait – hook, line and sinker.
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2012/02/couple-catches-purple-squirrel-in-pennsylvania/
Ravalli County, Montana residents have urged their commissioners to allow shooting wolves on sight and to listen to science rather than anecdotes as they write a countywide predator control policy.
“The policy has become too extreme,” said Dan Kerslake, a rancher from Stevensville. “I think it should be based more on science instead of politics. Implementing a ‘kill all the wolves’ policy is too extreme, but you also can’t just let wolves run wild in your backyard.”
LINCOLN, Neb. – Forty bighorn sheep trapped in Alberta, Canada, were released into the Pine Ridge near Harrison on Feb. 9, giving Nebraska a fifth subpopulation of this mammal popular among hunters and wildlife watchers. Read more
Washington –The recent decision by Scotts Miracle-Gro Co. to plead guilty to charges of distributing insecticide-tainted bird seed highlights the need for continued monitoring of the safety of the nation’s bird seed supply, says American Bird Conservancy (ABC), the nation’s leading bird conservation organization. ABC is the only organization to have carried out independent, nationwide bird seed tests. Read more