An area organization accepting donations on behalf of the family has identified the name of the child who was killed in a hunting accident on Sunday, November 20. Unimaginable Hope says 11-year-old Easton Thom was the victim of the hunting accident in Green Lake County. The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources said a 41-year-old man attempted to unload his firearm while it was placed in the back seat of a vehicle when the firearm discharged, striking Thom in the chest. Officials say the boy was flown by helicopter to a hospital, where he died. Thom’s death was one of six incidents across the state of Wisconsin on opening weekend, double the number of opening weekend incidents in 2021.
Snow geese flock by the thousands at Summer Lake in southern Oregon. An outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza in both wild birds and backyard flocks has killed thousands of wild and domesticated birds throughout the state, including some migrating snow geese.Terry Richard/The Oregonian
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An outbreak of highly pathogenicavian fluin both wild birds and backyard flocks has killed thousands of birds throughout the state, Oregon wildlife and agriculture officials say.
The disease, typically known as bird flu, has been detected in almost every county in Oregon. Its current strain is especially deadly for wild birds, which are dying in larger numbers than during previous outbreaks.
The number of backyard flocks – which include chickens, ducks and other domesticated birds…
By Mark Heinz, Outdoors Reporter Mark@CowboyStateDaily.com
Three accidental shootings in three days during Nebraska’s deer season, and the memory of a fatal hunting accident in Wyoming last year, bring home the point that hunters can’t ever take gun safety for granted.
“I won’t allow a loaded rifle into my truck. Ever. Period,” Greybull hunter and trapper John Eckman told Cowboy State Daily.
He and other Wyoming outdoorsmen also said that a hunting rifle should always be carried with the firing chamber empty. Hunters don’t need to chamber a round until they’ve got a clear, safe shot lined up on big game animal, they said.
“Never, ever, ever chamber a round until you’re ready to shoot,” noted Wyoming outdoorsman Paul Ulrich of Pinedale told Cowboy State Daily.
They say 94-year-old Donald Cass was deer hunting from a homemade tree stand when it collapsed. He wasn’t wearing a full-body safety harness, according to authorities.
Cass was found by a fellow hunter, who called police. He was taken to Scott Memorial Hospital and was later airlifted to University Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
Conservation officers are reminding hunters using elevated platforms to always wear a full body…
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In the spirit of Thanksgiving, the sheriff’s office pardoned the turkey from any criminal damage charges. (SOURCE: DOUGLAS COUNTY SO)
By CNN Newsource staff
Published: Nov. 23, 2022 at 4:55 PM PST|Updated: 21 hours ago
LAWRENCE, Kan. (Gray News) – A sheriff’s department in Kansas is sharing a story that is relevant to this upcoming Thanksgiving holiday.
Wisconsin saw a relatively high number of hunting incidents during the opening weekend of the 9-day gun deer season.
Six people were shot, including one that resulted in the death of an 11-year-old boy.
For perspective, last year there were six shooting incidents during the entire 9-day gun deer season and no deaths.
This year, all the incidents have either been someone accidentally shooting another person in their hunting party or themselves.
Sauk County, Woodland Township:On Nov. 19, 2022, at approximately 11:10 a.m., a 22-year-old male was the victimofa gunshot wound to the thigh. During a deer drive, a 20-year-old male shooter, who was a driver in the hunting party, shot at a running deer, striking the victim, who was a stander in the hunting party. The victim was transported to the…
Back in 2015, when I started covering climate change,climate warmeant one thing. At the time, if someone said that climate change posed a threat to the world order, you would assume they were talking about the direct impacts of warming, or its second-order consequences. Analysts and scholars worried over scenarios in which unprecedented droughts or city-destroying floods would prompt mass migrations, destabilizing the rich world or giving rise to far-right nationalism. Or they worried that a global famine could send food prices surging, triggering old-fashioned resource wars. Or they fretted oversocial scienceshowing that weather fluctuations could lead to revolutions and civil wars.
The world of 2015 is not the world of 2022. Countries have made remarkable…
MIAMI CO., Kan. (WIBW) – Game Wardens in Kansas arrested one person after they allegedly poached multiple whitetail deer, two of which met the trophy classification.
Kansas Department of WildlifeGame Wardens say that during the week of Nov. 14, officials received a tip that warned of an ongoing deer poaching incident in Miami County.
Wardens said they acted quickly on the detailed information which later resulted in the interview and arrest of a suspect for illegally killing…
Shane Zoglman, who describes in Poultry Press working earlier in his life on a battery-caged hen farm and a turkey farm, shot this footage of turkey concentration sites and killing locations, and scenes of them freezing in trucks where he lives, in Dubois County, Indiana. He sent his video to us November 22nd to share as we wished.
In “I Feel So Bad for These Turkeys Hauled on Freezing Nights,” Shane told UPC: “These days I do not buy guns and ammo to kill animals with. I buy binoculars to enjoy watching them with, and instead of putting effort into killing, I put effort and money into taking in animals that need a home as well as trying to spread some of the message in my own way that things need to change.”
I posted a thought on the YouTube channel featuring Shane’s video. Feel free to add your own. — Karen Davis, United Poultry Concerns
This commentary is by Barbara Felitti, a resident of Huntington who retired after working for 28 years at the Institute for Sustainable Communities in Montpelier and as a consultant for international community development and NGO support work.
It’s time for the Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department and elected state officials to act on the wishes of the majority of Vermonters and ban recreational and fur trapping for furbearers (bobcat, otter, fisher, coyotes, beaver, red and gray fox, muskrat, raccoon, opossum, weasel, mink and skunk).
Fish & Wildlife recently commissioned a survey of Vermont residents on furbearer trapping. A majority of Vermonters oppose recreational and fur trapping — 68% disapprove of recreational trapping (only 26% approve) and 62% disapprove of fur trapping (only 31% approve). This is consistent with the 2017 Vermont Center for Rural Studies survey finding that 75% of Vermonters want trapping banned. (See page 49 of the draft document “Vermont Residents’ Attitudes Towards Furbearer Management” 2022 by Responsive Management. The document was obtained from Fish & Wildlife through a public records request.)
So why are Fish & Wildlife and elected officials ignoring the wishes of a majority of Vermonters?
Arguments against a recreational and fur trapping ban fall along some predictable lines:
Tradition. Trapping is a Vermont “tradition.” However, traditions can and do change with time. Dogfighting and cockfighting were once “traditions” that are now banned throughout the U.S., as they were recognized as a form of legalized animal abuse. There is no legitimate need in the 21st century for trapping wildlife in painful ways so someone can kill them for recreation or fur.
Flatlanders. Some feel if you haven’t lived in Vermont for generations, you shouldn’t try to change traditions. This ignores the fact that some hunters and lifelong Vermonters are part of the 62% to 68% supporting a recreational and fur trapping ban.
Additionally, I seem to have missed the place in the Vermont Constitution where rights are assigned to people based on how long they’ve lived in the state. Are people who have not lived in Vermont for generations second-class citizens?
Misdirection. Inevitably, the issue of banning recreational and fur trapping raises the topic of the much maligned beaver and damage to infrastructure. Nuisance damage from beavers can be managed in nonlethal ways. More importantly, banning recreational and fur trapping under 10 App. V.S.A. § 44 will not disallow nuisance trapping under 10 V.S.A. § 4828.
Guaranteed rights. Fish & Wildlife’s website wrongfully states that trapping is protected by the Vermont Constitution. It is not. The constitution guarantees the right to “hunt and fowl,” which have distinctly different definitions than trapping under Vermont regulations.
“Detractors.” Unfortunately some Fish & Wildlife staff see disagreements with department policy as having to deal with “detractors” who are discrediting their work (Fish & Wildlife staff email Oct. 20, 2021, obtained through a public records request). This is a disingenuous and dismissive response by public officials that ignores the legitimate right of citizens to question and petition for changes to department policy.
Sadly, ignoring majority public opinion on trapping extends to the Legislature. Last legislative session, S.201 proposed a ban on leghold traps. Instead of a ban, the Legislature passed a bill to establish “best management practices” for trapping. Trappers in a working group to advise on best management practices wouldn’t even agree to limit killing of trapped animals to gunshot only. They still want to be able to use inhumane methods — for example, bludgeoning, stomping, or choking — to kill trapped wildlife. A best management practices-approved leghold trap can still maim an animal and will not prevent indiscriminate trapping of pet dogs and cats, raptors, or endangered species. Is this really “best”?
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