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NEW IHEA Firearm Training Set makes effective use of your PR Funds

By Tim Lawhern, President of the International Hunter Education Association (IHEA)

Ensure the young people graduating hunter safety courses in 2010 and beyond are the safest hunters yet while making effective use of your PR funds with the new IHEA Training Gun set, produced by Remington Outdoor Foundation.

The five firearms in the set include every action covered in IHEA's curriculum, plus they are completely disabled to be nonfunctioning so students can receive hands on training with a tool that simulates an actual firearm in every way except for live fire. The IHEA Training Gun Set eliminates liability issues because they are not capable of discharging during training or any other time.

Texas Men Sentenced To Federal Prison For Deer Trafficking, Stolen Property

AUSTIN, Texas, Feb. 5 -- The Texas Parks and Wildlife issued the following news release:

A four-year, multi-agency investigation that began when two Texas Parks and Wildlife Department Game Wardens received information about possible stolen property on two Northeast Texas ranches has ended with federal prison sentences for a father and son who pled guilty to transporting stolen property and wildlife trafficking.

Salazar Moves to Ban Importation and Interstate Transfer of Burmese Python and Eight Other Giant Invasive Snakes

FWS to Propose Injurious Species Listing under Lacey Act

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NEW YORK, NY – Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today announced the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will propose to list the Burmese python and eight other large constrictor snakes that threaten the Everglades and other sensitive ecosystems as “injurious wildlife” under the Lacey Act.

Last Updated on Monday, 01 March 2010 15:35 Read more...

Thrill killing' poachers pose threat to wildlife

"You have to wonder what was going through their heads," Nevada's top game warden, Rob Buonamici, says of poachers.

Deer, elk and even raccoons have a new type of predator to worry about: Poachers who kill increasingly for the thrill of it.

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."

Last Updated on Tuesday, 02 February 2010 02:13 Read more...

San Francisco Man Pled Guilty To Endangered Species Act Violations And Making False Statements To Investigators

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.

Last Updated on Tuesday, 02 February 2010 02:08 Read more...