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Forest Being Plowed Under Hunter Defies License Order
In Hamburg Iowa AP Lucian Smith refuses a $7.50 Missouri hunting license for his 500 acre Smiths Island farm near the Missouri River. He buys a $30,000 bulldozer and plows about 100 acres rather than comply. He calls the land his own and acts on principle despite criticism.
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Hamburg
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Missouri
Lucian Smith
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Missouri River
Iowa and
Nebraska
Missouri Game Commission
Missouri Department of Conservation Information
Jim Keefe
Keefe