Wildlife
Property owner snared in Ohio trapping case
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Traps used to catch coyotes killing birds on hunting preserve also caught neighbor’s dog.
Wildlife
Researchers study need to protect Great Lakes turtle habitat
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They used radio tracking, GPS loggers and aerial imagery to follow a dozen turtles on a Lake Huron island.
Wildlife
Prison ahead for illegal deer trafficker
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Lawyer unsuccessfully argues that deer bred and raised in captivity are not wildlife.
Wildlife
Court upholds Minnesota tribal fishing rights
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Defendants describe use of secretly recorded conversations, mobile tracking devices, interrogations, undercover surveillance as techniques more familiar to drug traffickers than to fishermen.
Wildlife
Pennsylvania court upholds revocation of hunting, trapping privileges
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Illegal importation of five bear carcasses triggers loss of privileges for taxidermist.
Recreation
Michigan court to determine price of poached trophy buck
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Is it the value of the meat? The antlers? Of a trophy hunt?
Wildlife
What’s on the marten’s menu?
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Researchers found that shrews account for 38.6 percent and deer account for 30 percent of the prey detected in marten scat collected in Wisconsin’s Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest.
Recreation
Hunter harassment conviction overturned in Illinois
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The court said that the anti-harassment law exempts disruptive behavior that involves legal use of one’s own property by landowners and tenants.
Land
When rock talks, science listens
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Ohio study of fossils in millstones give clues to their origin.