Cumulatively they lost $9600 and 12 years of hunting privileges.
Another form of poaching that is probably more common than this one incident might indicate. This case shows how difficult it is to convict many poachers. It took two years to catch someone using the bait station after it was first discovered.
Is poaching becoming […]
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Who knows? If there is a conviction in this case, it might solidify my theory that anti-wolf advocates are behind the decimation of elk herds 😉
Recall, Rex Rammel is the politician who joked about “Obama tags“. He also had a run in with then Governor and now Senator Jim Risch […]
Continue Reading →And people wonder why wolf advocates are wary of state management of wolves…..
Idaho sheriff denies SSS raffle aims for wolves.
Washington Examiner
Tony Mayer faces loss of hunting privileges and prison.
After one of the charges, a felony, had been dismissed due to improper procedure with rating the elk antlers on the Boone and Crockett scale, the charge has been refiled. Tony Mayer, the founder of an anti-wolf website, once again faces a lifelong hunting ban.
A guest article by Mike Settell
On June 26th, 2010, I inspected the South Fork of Mink Creek to document conditions of the Box Canyon road culvert that was being plugged by beaver. Like many roads throughout the west, the South Fork Road parallels the creek and so problems with the road-creek interface are, at best, […]
Continue Reading →Only 39 Mexican wolves remain in the wild after several poaching incidents.
Conservation groups are asking the USFWS to retrieve telemetry equipment from ranchers and change the frequencies of the radio collars on the wolves so that people with receivers cannot find wolves and kill them. They argue, correctly in my estimation, that the radio […]
Continue Reading →One has to wonder how widespread this is.
Wow! 425 wildlife violations committed by 68 people from 62 percent of the wildlife brought in to the shop.
“As it turned out, 62 percent of the wildlife brought in for mounting at the undercover taxidermy shop had been killed illegally in some manner, Cravens said.”
More on the dead Mexican wolves
One possibility that might be considered by the investigators is the possibility that those with government issued telemetry equipment may not be using it to kill the wolves but they may be giving the frequencies to those who are.
Gray wolf shot in AZ; officials probe use of […]
Continue Reading →ANOTHER MEXICAN WOLF FOUND ILLEGALLY SHOT IN ARIZONA
USFWS contact: Tom Buckley, 505-248-6455
Arizona Game and Fish Department contact: Bruce Sitko, 928-367-4281
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) Law Enforcement Agents recovered the body of another dead Mexican wolf on Thursday July 15, 2010. The wolf, AM 1189, is the second adult male of […]
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