MISSOULA – Police in Missoula County say they have arrested six people for allegedly trying to poach deer and steal gasoline from a ranch in the Ninemile area.
Missoula County Sheriff Sgt. Mike Dominick calls the case a nighttime deer hunting expedition gone bad.
November, 2009
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Montana: Police arrest six in poaching case
Monday, November 30th, 2009Greenest place in the U.S.? It’s not where you think.
Saturday, November 28th, 2009Fascinating article by David Owen concerning the impact of more people in one place versus that same amount of people spread out all over the countryside. The knock on Thoreau for setting an example of rural sprawl is an effective way of making this point.
Note that those living in a place like Vermont spend far more time driving and emitting co2 compared to those people who can walk or take public transportation to work. This also factors in to fuel consumption of course.
While many of us conservationists love the outdoors, aren’t we helping destroy our favorite wilderness area when we move to its border? This article raises difficult and important questions.
The key to New York City’s relative environmental benignity is the very thing that, to most Americans, makes it appear to be an ecological nightmare: its extreme compactness. Moving people and their daily destinations close together reduces their need for automobiles, makes efficient public transit possible, and restores walking as a viable form of transportation.
Utah: No “no more wilderness”
Saturday, November 28th, 2009Why hasn’t Ken Salazar removed Norton’s questionable deletion of recommended Utah wild areas?
It’s time to end Wildlife Services, aerial gunning and poisoning
Saturday, November 28th, 2009A big tanks to WildEarth Guradians for getting this going. It really is a huge waste of moeny, not to mention unethical.
Pursuant to the Right to Petition Government clause contained in the First Amendment of theU.S. Constitution,1 the Administrative Procedure Act (“APA”),2 and the implementing
regulations of the U.S. Department of the Interior (“DOI”), the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service(“USFWS”), the U.S. Department of Agriculture (“USDA”), the Animal and Plant Health
Inspection Service (“APHIS”), and Wildlife Services (“WS”), WildEarth Guardians(“Petitioner”) hereby files a petition to ban, through Executive Order and Final Administrative
Rulemaking, the airborne shooting of mammalian carnivores,3 commonly called “aerial gunning,” and poisoning of mammalian carnivores on federal public lands. Specifically, this
petition seeks:
(a) A ban on aerial gunning of wildlife by DOI and USDA officials and their agents;
(b) A ban of aerial gunning of wildlife on federal public lands administered by DOI and
USDA;
(c) A ban on poisoning of mammalian carnivores by DOI and USDA officials and their
agents; and
(d) A ban on poisoning mammalian carnivores on federal public lands administered by
the DOI and USDA.
We seek the ban based upon provisions provided by the U.S. Constitution, specifically the
Property Clause, Art. IV, § 3, and the Commerce Clause, Art. I § 8, cl. 3, as well as the Airborne
Hunting Act, 16 U.S.C. § 742j-l.
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Read the petition in PDF.
Idaho: Wildlife Services goes rogue, takes out wolf pack for no reason
Saturday, November 28th, 2009Ralph Maughan has the contact information and the full story over at his excellent blog.
I’m guessing that this specific situation will be presented before Judge Molloy and the wolf will be relisted in short order. Time and time again, it’s these sort of thrill kill power seekers who end up doing the most damage to their own twisted cause.
Wyoming: State flips flops, will try to stop new Yellowstone sled rule
Saturday, November 28th, 2009Looks like someone threw some weight around.
Glen Beck before Glen Beck by the Kids in the Hall
Saturday, November 28th, 2009This was 20 years ago. Sound familiar?
10th circuit court shoots down Wyoming snowmobile lawsuit
Thursday, November 26th, 2009Woming wanted Brimmer to rule on the new 318 sled limit, but the 10th circuit court did not go along with that idea.
Another year, another trashy “predator derby”
Wednesday, November 25th, 2009It’s that time of year again for Pocatello, Idaho to embarrass the country and mankind with it’s “predator derby” in which predators are killed for points and prizes.
Check out how this works:
Contestants compete against each other on the clock to kill as many predators as possible. They use sophisticated electronic calls that mimic the natural sound of a predator and scents to impersonate foods or to imply a willing mate is nearby. They have exactly 24 hours to shoot as many animals as possible to be the winner.
- Bobcats are worth 2 points
- Foxes are worth 2 points
- Coyotes are worth 2 points
- Wolves are worth 3 points
- Ties are resolved by weight.
Note that Nikon has already pulled out of this trash-fest. Check out the “I Am Idaho” deviant art page for more information:
This event is hosted by Sportsmen for Fish and Wildlife. You just have to feel bad for these people. There is something fundamentally wrong with their thought process and ability to analyze common sense and a simple foundation of ethics.
Ted Williams tears into prairie dog poisoning, “thrill kill” slobs
Monday, November 23rd, 2009An absolutely wonderful article by Ted Williams which exposes the horrific anticoagulant “Rozol”(it makes prairie dogs bleed uncontrollably in a painful death).
I can only tell you that the sporting community needs many more people like Ted Williams.
The irrational hatred of prairie dogs is particularly evident in the “varminters,” who speak reverently of “IVG” (instant visual gratification), experienced when their high-powered bullets make prairie dogs explode in “red mist.” “Red-Mist Society” T-shirts were popular in 1992 when, on another Audubon assignment, I observed a prairie dog shoot in South Dakota, where a bill was later introduced to rename the prairie dog the “prairie rat.” Rich Grable—better known as “Mr. Dog”—rested his .222 rifle on a foam pad taped to the base of his truck window and partly melted by barrel heat. Crack. He cut a target in half, sending hindquarters spinning. “Dead,” he declared, punching his dashboard-mounted kill counter. Babies, standing beside burrows with paws on their siblings’ shoulders, exploded in red mist. Once Grable killed five with a single shot. “Can ya hear it go plop?” he cackled. “Dissolved him! Ha. Ha.” Whenever a target dragged itself back into its burrow, minus major body parts, Mr. Dog would shout: “I done somethin’ to him.” According to his shooting journal, he’d killed 7,652 the previous year.
Thank you Ted Williams for exposing this garbage. You can read the entire article below.
