Outdoor commentary and legislative issues.
On the third day of small game season, I sat quietly in the squirrel woods. Within two hours, I was heading home with an unusual mixed bag. Details will follow in a few days, but here is a photo of the results. All taken with single shots from the venerable Marlin 39A stoked with sub-sonic target ammo. A camera sits atop the long gun to record the action.
A group protesting Michigan’s open-carry gun law hopes a Michigan Kroger store’s grand re-opening will promote a policy barring guns in the Lansing store. The story is here…
They were asked to leave the parking lot, when they arrived. Details here…
Washington, D.C. – Yesterday, Reps. Diane Black (R-TN-06) and Ted Poe (R-TX-02) introduced theFIREARM (Freedom From Intrusive Regulatory Enforcement of Arbitrary Registration Mandates) Act – legislation to prohibit the federal government from requiring race or ethnicity to be disclosed in connection with the purchase of a firearm. In 2012, the Obama Administration quietly began requiring the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) to record firearms purchasers’ race and ethnicity. Read more
The Department of Natural Resources will offer free tours to the public and school groups this fall at the Boardman River Weir (in downtown Traverse City), the Little Manistee River Weir (in Manistee County) and the Platte River Weir (in Benzie County). Tours are available throughout September and October. Read more
GW: Really? Poaching a spotted fawn? Hang ’em. Hang ’em high!
Three individuals are set to be arraigned Monday, Oct. 6, in 73A District Court in Sanilac County on poaching charges related to an incident on Sept. 14 in Sanilac County.
Three men and a woman were arrested after a Department of Natural Resources conservation officer working on a homeland security patrol was alerted by a U.S. Customs and Border Protection air and marine helicopter that it observed people shining deer and shooting from a vehicle in Marion Township. The incident took place at about 9 p.m. Read more
The public again this year is invited to purchase surplus salmon that has been harvested at Department of Natural Resources weirs around the state.
Seasonal salmon runs include large numbers of fish returning to their native streams to spawn and die. The DNR maintains multiple sites (weirs) where fisheries biologists and technicians collect eggs and milt (sperm) from Chinook and coho salmon for use in state fish hatcheries. Once egg-take needs are met, fish in prime physical condition are made available to the public by American-Canadian Fisheries, a private vendor that assists the DNR with the salmon harvest. Read more
Gov. Rick Snyder and Department of Natural Resources Director Keith Creagh – together with Pete Albrecht, Michigan Ducks Unlimited state chairman, and Dave Brakhage, Ducks Unlimited director of the Great Lakes/Atlantic Region – today celebrated the completion of important wetland and waterfowl habitat restoration projects at Maple River State Game Area, north of St. Johns.
The event showcased a powerful partnership that included the state of Michigan, the federal government and conservation organizations such as Ducks Unlimited. The groups worked together to restore wildlife habitat in an area that will benefit natural resources throughout mid-Michigan. Read more
Montana has opened its 6-month rifle season for wolves but will have to contend with Rodney Coronado and his group of whackos said to be shadowing and video recording hunting activities.
Coronado, a SHAC speaker & organizer; editor, the Earth First! Journal; Animal Liberation Front arsonist jailed for 57 months for torching a university research lab; confessed fur-industry serial arsonist; recipient of $70,400 from PETA. Rodney Adam Coronado is a long-time ringleader of the Animal Liberation Front, a criminal enterprise that the FBI classifies as America’s most dangerous domestic terrorism threat. He was sentenced in 1995 to 57 months in federal prison, for the 1992 arson of a Michigan State University research laboratory. In a November 30, 2002 speech, Coronado openly confessed to at least six other arsons, all of them part of a crime spree known as “Operation Bite Back.” While the FBI was most intensely investigating Coronado, PETA gave him over $70,000 in “grants” from its tax-exempt coffers.
Details here…
Legislation introduced Wednesday in the House would dissolve the federal government’s Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner’s (R-Wis.) ATF Elimination Act would transfer the bureau’s responsibilities to other agencies housed at the Justice Department. Details here…
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