Scott Talbott, an assistant division chief with Wyoming's Fish and Game Department, calls it "wanton destruction" that goes beyond shooting.

Poachers run down deer with cars or snowmobiles, and chase raccoons, then beat them to death with clubs. They also shoot deer, elk and antelope, sometimes removing valuable antlers but often leaving the carcass to rot on the ground, Talbott and other wildlife officials said.

"It's thrill killing — people just going out and killing stuff," Talbott said. "We have seen a significant increase of that in Wyoming. It's disturbing."

 

 

President of Brugnara Corporation Admits to Harming Steelhead

First Federal Criminal ESA Case for Blocking Steelhead Migration

SAN FRANCISCO – Luke D. Brugnara pleaded guilty today to four counts of  “taking” steelhead trout, a listed threatened species under the Endangered Species Act (ESA), and two counts of making false statements in the course of the investigation, United States Attorney Joseph P. Russoniello announced.

Brugnara, 46, of San Francisco, admitted that he intentionally blocked the flow of Little Arthur Creek, a critical habitat for steelhead, through his private dam on property in Gilroy, Calif., that he purchased in 2001.

Northern Region

While patrolling the Hackensack Meadowlands during the waterfowl season, Lt. Applegate and COs Kuechler, Sutton and Holmes encountered a group of hunters that included an individual had been apprehended last season for waterfowl violations. The officers observed the hunters shoot well beyond legal hours, and saw several Canada Geese downed, although the season for geese was closed. Unable to reach their location by boat, Lt. Applegate was able to locate their vehicle parked on a rail road bed. The officer waited as two individuals eventually approached the truck. As the officer announced himself, one individual started shouting about throwing everything in the water, fell to the ground, and clutched his chest as he claimed he was having a heart attack.

Advanced training for wildlife crime scene investigators the fourth annual seminar will be held at the boone and crockett club’s theodore roosevelt memorial ranch and rasmuson wildlife conservation center near Dupuyer, MT. May  4-6 2010.

 

Three Department of Fish and Game (DFG) employees and a contract helicopter pilot died in a helicopter crash Jan. 5 2010. They were on a routine aerial deer survey when the crash occurred in a remote section of Madera County.

 

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