Bayfield and Algoma fishermen enter not guilty pleas in fish poaching crackdown
Five Bayfield County commercial fishermen pled not guilty to $60 000 in poached fish charges and sought separate juries in Bayfield Circuit Court with no next appearance date set. In a related federal action, five Algoma men and three others pleaded not guilty to Lacey Act violations and interstate sales charges linked to an 18 month probe.
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Bayfield County
James Frostman
Robert Bissell
Bayfield
Eric Johnson
E. Linnea Johnson
Jack Evanow
Port Wing
Great Lakes
Darrel Farley
Andrew LaFond
Wayne Ross
Thomas L. Koeberl
Albert Guerra
Aaron Goodstein
Reward offered for pelican mutilation case in California
The U S Interior Department offers a 5000 dollar reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of those who cut off the beaks of more than a dozen brown pelicans off California. The endangered birds face starvation as they cannot catch prey. A USFWS task force investigates with efforts to fit birds with plastic upper beaks. Violations of the Endangered Species Act carry civil penalties up to 10000 dollars and criminal penalties up to 20000 dollars with jail up to one year.
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U.S. Interior Department
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Robert Jantzen
California
USFWS
Mountain Lion Killing Leads to Fine and Probation
Rockne Goertz of Anoka pled guilty in federal court to illegally killing and transporting a mountain lion. He shot the animal while hunting in Montana in fall 1981 when the season was closed and no lion permit was held. He paid a $1,009 fine and received one year of probation under the Lacey Act.
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LaFond
Ross
Koeberl
Guerra
Minnesota
Rockne Goertz
Anoka
Montana
Mr. Goertz
DNR official retires to lead Ruffed Grouse Society region
Bob Dreis, a 31 year Wisconsin DNR wildlife manager, retires January 28 to become Lakes States regional director for the Ruffed Grouse Society. He will oversee Wisconsin Minnesota and northern Illinois, aiming to build a Wisconsin Council chapter, run landowner education workshops, and fund habitat research while continuing field interests and community roles.
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DNR
Bob Dreis
Ruffed Grouse Society
State Department of Natural Resources
Dress
Lakes States
Lake States
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Illinois
RGS
la Crosse
Stevens Point
Superior Duluth
Wisconsin Council
Dreis
Council
Ned Pierce
Madison
Michigan
Betty
The
States may get first chance to buy back forest land
Washington states will be offered the first opportunity to acquire national forest land the federal government plans to sell. Douglas MacCleery, speaking at a National Wildlife Federation conference, said no decision has been made whether to transfer land to states or sell to them. About 1.49 million acres in Wisconsin’s Chequamegon and Nicolet forests are among 140 million acres reviewed for possible sale.
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U.S. Forest
Douglas MacCleery
National Wildlife Federation
Reagan
National Forest Service
Chequamegon National Forest
Nicolet National Forest
Wisconsin
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Ruffed Grouse Society of America
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Iowa
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Missouri
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Aldo Leopold
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American Fur Exchange
P.O
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