http://www.capecod.com/sports/barnstable-hall-fame-runner-shot-hunter/
Barnstable Hall of Fame Runner Shot by Hunter
HYANNIS – One of Barnstable High School’s Athletic Hall of Famers will have more than just a tale of his Red Raider glory days to tell his grandchildren one day.
Dr. Jonathan G. “Jon” Way of Osterville, a 1993 Barnstable High graduate and former three-sport all-star and two-sport captain and one of the Red Raiders’ all-time greatest long-distance runners, survived two blasts from a hunter’s shotgun Monday afternoon near Mary Dunn Pond. The hunter, Sean Houle, 47, of Marstons Mills, allegedly mistook Way for a deer and was subsequently arrested and arraigned on multiple charges yesterday in Barnstable District Court.
Ironically, it’s usually Dr. Way who is busy helping injured animals or pursuing his extensive, career-long research on eastern coyotes.
Dr. Way, a research scientist at Clark University in Worcester who has authored two books and has degrees from UMass-Amherst, the University of Connecticut and Boston College, was a Division 1 Collegiate cross country runner for the Minutemen while an undergraduate at UMass. His brother Jeff and sister Nicole Way also starred for the Red Raiders and ran cross country and track at UMass. He is currently seeking a publisher for his third book on his eastern coyote research.
“I’m happy to be alive, indeed,” Dr. Way said. “It was great to get a good night sleep after the past 30-hour ordeal.”
Dr. Way was enshrined in the Barnstable High School Athletic Hall of Fame in 2012. He set the Barnstable High cross country record at Hathaway’s Pond in 1992 (15:39) and set the course record at Falmouth High School the same year (15:43). He was a three-time Old Colony League all-star in cross country, four-time Cape Cod Times All-Cape & Islands First Team runner, twice was named a Boston Herald All-Scholastic and in his senior year was also named a Boston Globe All-Scholastic. His high school cross country records – set 20 years ago – still stand.
He was a two-time All-Conference runner at UMass in the Atlantic 10 Conference (1995 and 1996) and named twice to the Atlantic 10 All-Academic Team.
Dr. Way is currently at Clark working on a long-term study he developed on eastern coyotes (or coywolves as he calls them) that inhabit eastern Massachusetts. His two books, Suburban Howls – an account of his research findings and experiences studying eastern coyotes in Massachusetts – and My Yellowstone Experience, runs an organization called Eastern Coyote Research that helps supports his long-term ecological and behavioral study of coywolves in Massachusetts. He also works part time with the Yellowstone Ecological Research Center examining the effects of mortality on coyote population demographics, and frequently travels to the Yellowstone area to watch wolves and bears and other wildlife.
Just three weeks ago, Dr. Way was a guest speaker at Wild Care Cape Cod’s 2nd Annual Birds, Beds and Breakfast Weekend benefit in Provincetown. Each year, the benefit helps raise funds and awareness for the care of wildlife in distress. Wild Care of Cape Cod is a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation located in Eastham.
Dr. Way said that he reached out to state legislators earlier this year because there are state agencies who have been blocking him in his attempts to continue his research on eastern coyotes.
Perhaps now they might listen.
Sean Walsh is the sports editor for Cape Cod Broadcasting Media. His email is seanwalsh@ccb-media.com or you can follow him on Twitter @coachwalshccbm
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Jon is my good friend, as you know and an amazing coyote scientist. This was one of the most bizarre ironies
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That hunter probably knew Dr. Way is an animal advocate and works with coyotes. That hunter most likely shot him intentionally.
I agree with you, Justin, this is more the reality, but people still continue to accept the insane idea that hunters are “just making an honest mistake.” The hunter should be jailed. These maniacs are the ones with the weapons, who are out there slaughtering innocent, unarmed animals, at will. What an insane society we have. The fact that this scientist’s efforts on behalf of eastern coyotes is blocked by game agencies is very disturbing and telling.
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So glad Jon will be okay. He’s a knowledgeable friend to coyotes and those who advocate for them.
It is amazing that although less than 6% of Americans hunt, hunters are catered to and the other 94%+ are left to take our chances. I would not be surprised if jon were shot intentionally. The perpetrator is either malicious or incompetent; either way, he should never be allowed to possess a firearm of any kind.
This is the best explanation in a nutshell, of why it does not ever work to kill wolves and coyotes to limit their populations. It also makes it clear why, before the white settlers showed up and started killing coyotes, they were found only in the Great Plains. After 200+ years of merciless persecution, coyotes are now found in every state except Hawaii. They are tricksier than wolves, because coyotes evolved here, dealing with, well read this outstanding article!
“… think of the lead pair as “Mom and Dad,”…When you kill members of the family, the social structure that limits reproduction is broken. Shoot Dad, and not only will Mom eventually find another mate, but so will her sons and daughters. Where you had one pair of coyotes reproducing, you might now have three or four mating pairs.And to complicate things even further, litter sizes in a disrupted pack will increase, perhaps doubling. Where you had three new pups per breeding season before, you might now have two dozen new mouths to feed each year.That’ll run you through the available supply of rodents and rabbits pretty quick. Packs disrupted by attempts at extermination will often start posing a threat to livestock a year or two down the road, and their descendants will often strike off on their own to try to find less crowded territories, meaning more coyotes where they weren’t before.”
It also makes it pretty clear that the only reason to kill coyotes and wolves is ignorance and psychotic bloodlust.
https://www.beaconreader.com/chris-clarke/what-kind-of-jerk-kills-coyotes-for-fun
Thanks for your comments, Jane. The problem is that although the majority of the public does not hunt, most of this public is not actively opposed to hunting. Even well meaning people, who claim to care about wildlife, naively believe the propaganda spewed out by the hunting lobby, that hunting is “ethical, needed for population control,” and other lies. We need to get the word out every chance we get about the fallacy of hunting and “wildlife management.” It’s all about “game management” which interfers with the natural behaviors of wild species, causes them terrible stress, destroys animal families, and is destructive to the habitat. Many poor wild animals are terrified during hunting season, and often animals crawl off injured, dying a slow, agonizing death.
All Federal and State Game Management agencies support this antiquated, barbaric ideology. http://www.foranimals.org
I would really like to know was is the outcome of this hunter, will he get the punishment he deserves ?
Richie, probably not. Most hunting “accidents” are accepted as such, and who is going to prove it was other than an accident, right? The whole system is design to excuse and protect the hunting lobby. I agree, this scumbag should go to jail–frankly, I’d cheer if he were hanged. One less hunter killing wildlife out there.
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