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.
Energy
15-year delay undermines Northern Michigan drilling suit
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A judge ruled that Richard Brilinski waited to long to sue an energy company that may have drilled a natural gas well too close to his property line, and will now no longer be able to.
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?
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
Arsonist gets 5 years for Superior National Forest fires
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U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejects bid for a shorter sentence for man who confessed to setting nine fires on federal and state forestland.
Water
Underground tank scam threatened water quality
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Two Michigan men pleaded guilty to falsely certifying that aging, defective petroleum tanks did not threaten groundwater.
Air
Environmental violators go to jail in crackdown
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An improving economy spurring demolition of old structures and redevelopment of contaminated industrial sites is creating more opportunity for environmental crimes.
Waste
Sentencing ahead in New York Clean Water Act criminal case
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A demolition company and two of its managers pled guilty to illegal dumping of toxic materials into the Susquehanna River.
Energy
Pennsylvania man faces sentencing for falsifying abandoned oil well plugging reports
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The fake reports caused the re-inspection of 95 wells in the Allegheny National Forest.
Land
Judge OKs controversial land swap in Michigan’s Ottawa National Forest
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He said Forest Service considered objections to losing public access to scenic Wildcat Falls, which the agency acknowledged give some visitors “a sense of place and attachment to the area.”