A state pheasant protection program in South Dakota is responsible for killing 134,000 animals over three years. This program awards $10 for every skunk, raccoon, or other kind of predator that is trapped and killed. This program is called the Nest Predator Bounty Program and was started to boost pheasant duck populations by having hunters […]
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Poacher Banned From Hunting After Killing A Bear Near Steamboat Springs
STEAMBOAT SPRINGS, Colorado – A South Dakota man cannot hunt or fish in Colorado for the next 12 years after he was convicted of poaching in north central Colorado. Robert Stalley was convicted of wasting the meat of a black bear he killed during the 2017 hunting season. Investigators said Stalley tried to deceive Colorado […]
An American Bittern at Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge
I have seen quite a few American Bitterns (Botaurus lentiginosus) over the years but most I didn’t spot until they were startled into flight. That all changed last November when I spotted this bird out in the open at Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge. The American Bittern is a solitary, secretive, cryptically colored heron that breeds […]