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Man faces felony charges after hunting death

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Man faces felony charges after hunting death

Special to the Record-Eagle/Theresa Steiner SchurmanDavid Michael Barber shot and killed Justin Beutel on Nov. 15 while out deer hunting in Antrim County. Barber thought he was shooting at a deer, according to court records. Beutel died from injuries suffered from the gunshot. He is seen posing with the deer shortly before his death.

TRAVERSE CITY — A hunter accused of shooting and killing a man during deer season stayed mostly silent while a judge formally announced charges that could send him to prison.

David Michael Barber stood next to his attorney, Daniel Hartman, for an 86th District Court arraignment hearing. Judge Thomas Phillips read off the counts he faces, including a 15-year involuntary manslaughter felony charge, felony firearm and careless discharge of a firearm causing injury or death.

A Michigan Department of Natural Resources investigation determined Barber, on…

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Patricia Randolph’s Madravenspeak: Transforming the Department of Natural ‘Resources’ to the Department of Natural Respect

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Our conference speakers aim to inspire new pathways for conservation that treat all individuals and species as equal and to reinvigorate our awe and wonder for all life, regardless of their conservation status.” — 2017 International Compassionate Conservation Conference

There is a dramatic and long-overdue change coming to the governance of wildlife. If Wisconsin citizens contact the Tony Evers campaign, we may just be able to get our first humane secretary of the DNR, someone who represents the nonhunting majority of Wisconsin citizens.

The emerging focus worldwide is on respecting the lives of individual animals and their safety and mobility. The new paradigm is one of peace and harmony, replacing the valuing of wildlife primarily for their death. Killing conserves nothing.

The Centre for Compassionate Conservation (CfCC) was initiated at the University of Technology in Sydney, Australia, in 2013.

International conservation researchers held a conference in 2017 to explore new…

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Hunter boasts of poaching deer on dating app — while unknowingly talking to game warden

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https://kutv.com/news/offbeat/hunter-boasts-of-poaching-deer-on-dating-app-not-knowing-she-was-talking-with-game-warden

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Wednesday, January 9th 2019

What started out as a potential love match turned out to be a bust, literally. (Photo: Pixaby)

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CHECOTAH, Okla. (AP) — What started out as a potential love match turned out to be a bust, literally. An Oklahoma woman went on a dating website and started a chat with a game warden, though she didn’t know his profession at the time. The woman shared with the warden that she was excited about illegally shooting a “bigo buck” during a hunting outing.

That got the attention of Oklahoma Game Warden Cannon Harrison — because the woman admitted using a spotlight to shoot the dear at night — and used a rifle outside the season where rifles can be used to hunt deer. What’s more, the woman only harvested the head and back-strap meat — a no-no.

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Response letter on NY Coyote Contest Hunt

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We at the Committee to Abolish Sport Hunting would like to thank Syracuse.com for their January 8th article, “NY coyote-hunting contest offers $2,000 grand prize for heaviest killed” for clarifying just what the Federation of Sportsmen’s Clubs of Sullivan County considers sportsmanlike behavior.

According to the article it’s the killing of coyotes, day or night—by gun or by trap—for a “fun,” as well as financial gain.

Apparently it doesn’t matter how you kill them, just as long as the coyotes’ carcasses as kept a certain temperature to prove they’re fresh (not because anyone is going to eat them, it just seems more sportsmanlike to them if the kill was made during the days of the contest rather than sometime earlier).

In other words their definition of sportsman-like has nothing to do with what’s sane or humane, just what’s fair to other hunter/trappers. It may be too late to derail…

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NY coyote-hunting contest offers $2,000 grand prize for heaviest killed

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The first Eastern coyote sighting in New York State was reported in 1926 and the animal has spread far and wide in the state ever since. (The Associated Press)
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WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, N.Y. — The 12th Annual Coyote Hunt, open to hunters across the state along with five counties in Pennsylvania, is scheduled for Feb. 8-10 with a $2,000 grand prize being offered for the heaviest coyote.

The three- day contest is being sponsored by the Federation of Sportsmen’s Clubs of Sullivan County. Coyotes can be taken by hunting or trapping. The hunter/trapper who makes the kill must be present at the competition’s weigh-ins, scheduled from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Feb. 8-9 and from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Feb. 10.

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Woman killed during hunting trip near Lake Martin

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TALLAPOOSA COUNTY — A 48-year-old Cleveland woman was fatally shot Sunday during a hunting trip near Lake Martin.

Tallapoosa County Sheriff’s Office identified the victim as Donna Duran, in a news release Monday afternoon.

At around 11:36 a.m. Sunday, the sheriff’s office responded to an incident on Centerpoint Road near Chuck’s Marina, south of Dadeville off Highway 50 in Tallapoosa County.

“Initial report was that an individual was removing a rifle from the rear seat of a vehicle when the weapon discharged causing the death of the victim,” the news release said.

The shooting remains under investigation by the Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources and the Tallapoosa County Sheriff’s Office.

The investigation also is awaiting autopsy results from the Alabama Department of Forensic Sciences.

‘Very rare’

This incident is the first reported firearm-related hunting fatality…

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TWRA finds more deer with chronic wasting disease

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JACKSON, Tenn.– The Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency put together a public meeting after discovering 11 more deer with Chronic Wasting Disease in Fayette and Hardeman counties.

TWRA spokesperson Amy Spencer said they will explain their results in the meeting, scheduled for 7 p.m. Tuesday at Bolivar Middle School.

“It is a short presentation with updates and some planned monitoring activities in the CWD zone,” Spencer said.

“We’ve had numerous questions from the public, and this is why we are having a public meeting. We want to be able to answer the questions,” Spencer said.

Spencer said one of the most frequent questions is if harvested deer with CWD is OK to eat.

“We do not recommend eating a deer that has CWD detected in it,” Spencer said.

TWRA says they received results from over 100 deer that were harvested from Dec. 5 through Dec. 16…

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Mountain lion shot and killed in Bismarck

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Updated: Tue 10:53 AM, Jan 08, 2019

UPDATE (10:53): According to Casey Anderson with North Dakota Game and Fish, the lion was a male between one and three years old, and weighed about 100 pounds. Anderson says the department will do a full health work-up on the animal. He says it’s an unfortunate situation when they have to kill one of the animals, but it is done because of public safety.

Anderson says they can’t determine if it’s the same mountain lion that was reported in north Bismarck in December.

A mountain lion has been shot and killed in Bismarck early this morning.

The Bismarck police department says they responded to a report of a mountain lion in the backyard of a residence around 5am this morning.

The department was able to follow the lion’s footprints through Zonta park, the municipal ball park and into Kiwanis park.

Police say they eventually found the lion and shot it.

The ND Game and Fish department have taken the mountain lion for testing.

Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid Triggered Mile-High Tsunami That Spread Through Earth’s Oceans

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Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid Triggered Mile-High Tsunami That Spread Through Earth's Oceans

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When the dinosaur-killing asteroid collided with Earth more than 65 million years ago, it did not go gently into that good night. Rather, it blasted a nearly mile-high tsunami through the Gulf of Mexico that caused chaos throughout the world’s oceans, new research finds.

The 9-mile-across (14 kilometers) space rock, known as the Chicxulub asteroid, caused so much destruction, it’s no wonder the asteroid ended the dinosaur age, leading to the so-called Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg) extinction.

“The Chicxulub asteroid resulted in a huge global tsunami, the likes of which have not been seen in modern history,” said lead researcher Molly Range, who did the research while getting her master’s degree in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Michigan. [Image Gallery: Ancient Monsters of the Sea]

Range and her colleagues presented the research, which has…

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‘There is little we can do’ Scientist’s SHOCK Yellowstone revelation over human EXTINCTION

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A GEOPHYSICIST has offered a chilling warning over the Yellowstone volcano, it was revealed during a bombshell BBC documentary.

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Yellowstone: Expert issues WARNING about supervolcano

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Robert Smith is a leading lecturer at the University of Utah, who has years of experience in natural disasters, including his study into Yellowstone. The supervolcano, located in Yellowstone National Park, has erupted three times in history, 2.1 million years ago, 1.2 million years ago and 640,000 years ago. However, a fourth eruption could have dire consequences, according to Dr Smith.

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He revealed during a 2015 BBC documentary titled “Supervolcano” how another eruption could prove fatal to humanity.

He said: “If another eruption was to occur, I think…

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