Exposing the Big Game

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Exposing the Big Game

Gov. Kate Brown Picked a Big-Game Hunter to Serve on the Board That Manages Oregon’s Wolves

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Wildlife conservation groups say Brown has sold them out in favor of ranchers, hunters and commercial fishers. 

James Nash’s Instagram feed showed him with big game he killed, until he took the photos down this month.

James Nash is good at killing exotic animals.

Nash’s Instagram feed shows him posing with many of his prizes—including a hippopotamus, a zebra, a giant crocodile, a warthog and more pedestrian trophies, like the five coyotes he shot one winter’s day.

“Finally got my hippo skull back from Africa,” Nash says in the caption below a photo of him standing over the dead beast. “First shot was 5 yards. Second shot, the gun barrel was touching it.”

Last week, Gov. Kate Brown appointed Nash, a rancher and hunting guide from Enterprise, to the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife Commission, which, among…

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3 thoughts on “Gov. Kate Brown Picked a Big-Game Hunter to Serve on the Board That Manages Oregon’s Wolves

  1. I’m not from Oregon, but I have noticed that wildlife does not seem to be a priority under her governorship, and it took forever and a day to even get a ‘management plan’ for wolves (such as it is) to completion.

  2. I simply cannot understand how someone can enjoy the sight of a suffering creature in pain just so they can have a skin or a trophy head. Like that old sneak who shot a sleeping lion, and this is okay with many.

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