Three Maryland hunters have been charged with the illegal hunting of deer, including an albino deer that was shot from the rear seat of a vehicle. The Maryland Department of Natural Resources, after concluding its investigation, identified the suspects as Jeremy Hoalcraft, 18, of Oakland; David Georg, 29, of Swanton, and Jordan Dawson, 22, of […]
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Wildlife killing contest ban considered in Maryland
Dead foxes were piled high in the pickup truck after the hunting contest in Frederick County in January. Men lifted the bloodied animals out of the truck by their legs, dropping them on the ground to be counted. The winner of the contest killed 38 foxes and won about $400, said the undercover investigator for […]
POLL: Should California be allowed to exterminate the nutria?
The call came from a wildlife trapper working in the wetlands of central California. “I think I caught a nutria,” the man said. Greg Gerstenberg, a state biologist, was thrown.“I was like, ‘a what?’” A year and a half later, Gerstenberg strode up to his waist into the sludgey wetlands, pulling a kayak through mats […]
POLL: Should USDA slaughter Canada Geese to protect water quality?
In a change of policy, the Ocean Pines Association decided the nonlethal approach to the Canadian geese problem wasn’t working. As a result, 290 geese were humanely euthanized as part of the USDA’s wildlife damage management project last week. Tanya Espinosa with the United States Department of Agriculture would not go into how the geese […]