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The weekend might not be here just yet, but your favorite dispatch from the great outdoors is.
So grab your coffee or whiskey (no judgement) and let's get caught up on the outdoor news and views from the past 24-or-so hours.
Here's what's worth reading about today:
Mixed verdict - It took a week-long trial but the jury has since reached a verdict in family-based poaching case in Idaho 🕵️
Kill more does - NY state makes new deer regs official 🦌
A win - Vermont Supreme Court sides with trappers and hunters in animal rights challenge 👨⚖️
Adding Sundays - Delaware expands Sunday hunting during specific seasons 🗓️
Pair of pronghorn - Alberta officials are looking for information regarding to illegally killed and wasted speed goats 🔎
High pressure - These fellas get in tight with a pair of fighting black bears while bowhunting 🏹
THE FAMILY BIZ
JURY REACHES A MIXED VERDICT IN NORTH IDAHO FAMILY POACHING TRIAL
A Kootenai County jury has delivered a split decision in the family-based poaching case against a northern Idaho family, convicting all three members of conspiracy to conceal evidence while acquitting them on the more serious charges of conspiring to unlawfully kill and sell wildlife.
The verdict, reached Friday after roughly 10 hours of deliberation following a weeklong trial, brings a partial close to a case that drew attention for its family-wide entanglement and the questions it raised about small-scale, organized poaching in North Idaho…
QUICK HITS // FROM AROUND THE WEB
New York finalizes new deer hunting regulations with fraud prevention measures: The new regulations are designed to encourage hunters to kill more doe or antlerless deer to better manage the state’s growing deer population, according to the state Department of Environmental Conservation. Read the full story.
Vermont Supreme Court upholds trapping, coyote hunting rules: The Vermont Supreme Court has rejected a challenge by wildlife advocates to Vermont’s new regulations on trapping and on hunting coyotes with dogs. The court ruled last week that the state Fish and Wildlife Board had satisfied the Vermont Legislature’s intent, despite objections from lawmakers. Read the full story.
Delaware law to expand Sunday hunting during designated seasons: Sunday hunting is expanding as a result of a new state law taking effect immediately in Delaware. House Bill 278 adds small game and small birds to the list of species allowed to be hunted on Sundays, including rabbits, squirrels and coyotes. Before this change, they were the only species restricted from being hunted on Sundays. Read the full story.
Two pronghorn shot, left to waste near Wilkie, Sask.: Conservation officers in the North Battleford-area are looking for those involved in an illegal hunt. According to a Sasktip post to social media, the incident happened near Wilkie, Sask. and resulted in the waste of two pronghorn. Read the full story.
One of the wasted pronghorns | Sasktip/Facebook
More than 450 landowners apply for Governor Armstrong’s hunting habitat program: “North Dakota is 94% privately owned. This program is designed to create habitat on private property that farmers and ranchers want to use,” Gov. Armstrong said. Read the full story.
Michigan Bovine TB Cases Confirmed in Two Counties: The Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development has confirmed new cases of bovine tuberculosis (TB) in cattle herds located in Alpena and Presque Isle counties. Read the full story.
VIDEO // SOME THINGS JUST HAVE TO BE SEEN
🐻 This is a high-pressure pull. You’re in tight to a pair of black bears in the middle of a scrap and you have to somehow find the vitals.
I think these fellas got both of them…
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WANDERINGS // A SFW GLIMPSE OF OUR BROWSER HISTORY
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EYE CANDY // PICTURES > WORDS
The pull of the weekend.
📸 by: @rachelahtila
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