Case #1 "Robert Wudzinski, 70, of Richmond (Michigan), appeared in 98th District Court in Ontonagon County last month before Judge Anders B. Tingstad, who also serves as judge in Gogebic County.
Wudzinski entered a guilty plea to shooting a radio-collared wolf while deer hunting. A wildlife biologist with the Department of Natural Resources was patrolling in an airplane, tracking radio collar signals on wolves that day, when the collar on the wolf went into mortality mode.
MDNR conservation officers were able to locate the carcass of the animal and conduct an investigation, which led to the arrest of Wudzinski, who entered the guilty plea to one count of taking a protected animal. Read More...

Fairfax, VA- Last week, in D.C. federal district court, the National Rifle Association (NRA) moved to intervene in an anti-hunting lawsuit filed by Humane Society of the United States (HSUS).  The NRA is partnering with Safari Club International (SCI) in this effort. The suit by HSUS and affiliated anti-hunting groups seeks to reverse federal delisting of the Western Great Lakes gray wolf from the Endangered Species Act.
“This is yet another example of an anti-hunting group that seeks to ban any and all forms of hunting while demonizing hunters and disregarding the best interests of wildlife,” said Chris W. Cox, NRA’s chief lobbyist. “NRA will not sit idly by while they attempt to bring to an end our country’s rich hunting heritage.”
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We all pay for its programs - likely $400 billion over the next six years - and should share in the funding.
By Judy Jengo and Amy Hansen (Philadelphia Inquirer)
There is a growing sense that when Congress passes the farm bill this year, farmers and environmental programs in states such as Pennsylvania and New Jersey could benefit. Most people think the farm bill is important only to the Midwestern states. But we all pay for its programs (likely $400 billion over the next six years) and should share in the funding.
The environmental benefits of the bill – delivered through an alphabet soup of conservation programs operated by the U.S. Department of Agriculture – are extremely important, but not widely known. The USDA spends about $4 billion a year to improve water quality, protect farmland and grassland from sprawling development, restore wetlands, and help wildlife.
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By Michael Rubinkam
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published March 19, 2007 - The Washington Times
MILFORD, Pa.

    Mark Ternent squeezes his bulky frame into the narrow opening of a bear den and shines a flashlight into the eyes of a 200-pound female. Two black bear cubs are suckling, and their mother looks back at Mr. Ternent, alert but relaxed. It is early March, and these bears won't come out of hibernation for six weeks.

    The wildlife biologist shoots a tranquilizer dart into the mother's rump, but the dart goes into fat, not muscle, slowing absorption into her blood. Mr. Ternent waits 20 minutes, but she is still awake, so he shoots a second dart. This one does the trick; she is completely out of it.

    Mr. Ternent then goes to work, dragging the bears from their den.
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None of us would drive down the road in reverse. In spite of it being possible, reverse is only intended to take you where you've been, not where you want to go. Sadly, today many of us have been convinced by special interest radicals and socialists playing on our own narrow self-interests that going in reverse is somehow "progress" taking us where we want to go. Nothing could be further from the truth.

A few examples of this phenomenon using Constitutional matters should suffice to make this point.
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The front-page news article and the opening paragraph said it all.
"Whaling ban strains US-Japan relations"
"The U.S. is locked in a power struggle with Japan over control of the International Whaling Commission, with the winner to decide whether whales can be legally hunted for PROFIT" (my caps on this last word).
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Another 4 parks may open for deer season; hearings slated
Posted by the Asbury Park Press on 04/21/07
BY BOB JORDAN
FREEHOLD BUREAU
Monmouth County's Deer Management Program officials have proposed opening new hunting sites in Marlboro, Middletown, Millstone Township and Roosevelt, and Holmdel later this year.
The Monmouth County Park System program has been in effect for three years. In the last hunting season, 11 park areas were hunted by approximately 560 permitted hunters and 303 deer were harvested, county officials said.
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Posted from the Daily Record newsroom


To the Editor:
As a mother with two students in college, I am sick to my stomach over the Virginia Tech massacre. Only a year ago, this school denied students and professors with concealed carry licenses the right to carry their firearms on campus. Obviously, the psycho who killed 32 people on Monday didn't pay attention to that rule.
The result is a campus full of people who were slaughtered because they had no way to defend themselves.
For those who believe in calling 911 for help, well, I guess now you'll understand why and how that doesn't work.
They can only, by definition, arrive after the attack has begun. If even one professor or student had a gun, this massacre could have been cut short, and lives saved. This event proves the need to be able to defend yourself the instant an attack happens, not wait for help to arrive. Now consider that the state of New Jersey denies you that right.
Gun control kills.
The question is now what are you all going to do about? Continue to support laws that turn us and our families into victims, while the predators act with impunity? I would prefer to think that 21-year-old students and professors are armed, than to worry as I do now, that they will have to cower in classrooms waiting for a psycho to systematically slaughter them.
MARILYN JOST
Andover

EDITOR'S NOTE: Today's feature deals with yesterday's tragedy at Virginia Tech from the perspective of a pair of firearms observers. First, Tom Gresham of Gun Talk, looks at the inevitable backlash against firearms. Jim Shepherd observed the media and public response to the story. We believe you will find both viewpoints thought-provoking, but both Gresham and Shepherd wanted everyone to remember that right now, this is a story about people, not ideological viewpoints. Our thoughts and prayers are with everyone impacted by this tragedy.

Another "Gun Free" Zone Failure in Virginia
Here Come The Gun Banners
By Tom Gresham

April 16, 2007, just might be a turning point in the battle to restore gun rights to Americans. The tragedy at Virginia Tech today, with more than 30 people being killed in a premeditated murder spree, will be the fulcrum upon which the anti-gun rights forces leverage their efforts to restrict (destroy, if possible) your right to not only own guns, but to protect yourself and your family.
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Two news stories have crossed my desk this morning that say mountains about what they don't say. One article from the New York Daily News goes under the banner:

"Save tot from coyote's jaws"

"Beast tries to drag baby into N.J. woods but is chased off by gutsy 11-yr.-old boy"

The second article, from the Idaho Statesman, runs under the banner:

"Grizzly bear recovery presents new challenge"
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The US Congress has vowed to not renew the Federal tax cuts that expire in 2-3 years. Although this will increase everyone's (that pays taxes) tax bill we are told that it is not a tax increase. What do you call a statement that is neither true nor a lie?

A half million people (kids?, urban elites?, anti-hunters?, students as an assignment?, socialists?, all of the above?) have written into the US Department of the Interior asking that the US Fish and Wildlife Service List the polar bear under the Endangered Species Act because of global warming threats to it's habitat. The Interior Department and the US Fish and Wildlife Service in particular need little encouragement to set this legal hammer in place for every lawyer from "Hades to breakfast" to pick up and go into US Courts to seek "redress" to stop roads, the auto Read More...

Morning's first light streaks through the night's darkness, outlining the silhouettes of a flock of wild turkeys (Meleagris gallopavo) that have roosted streamside in the branches of an old cottonwood tree. Within a few moments, this boisterous clan - consisting of big toms, mature hens and juvenile birds - will shatter dawn's silence with their requisite amount of morning chatter and bustle: wings flapping violently as they swoop to the ground and bold, thunderous gobbles that echo through the bottom. Not so long ago, the sounds of the wild turkey were absent from these woods and throughout much of North America. But today, this scene will play out in 49 U.S. states as well as several Canadian provinces and Mexican states.

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"Bushmeat", like "Invasive Species", is one of those colloquial terms that has been hijacked by environmental extremists, animal rights radicals, Federal and UN bureaucrats, and politicians in search of the means of holding onto and increasing their power. "Bushmeat" is an African term commonly used to refer to wild animals (hence the "bush" term) eaten by native residents and visitors to rural areas. The term encompasses any animal that is abundant (easily located) and edible from monkeys and baboons to various deer, zebras, and hogs. There is currently a bushmeat.org site on the internet and a "Bushmeat Task Force" made up of a gaggle of bureaucrats and radicals in desperate search of an example that justifies both their existence and new laws and bureaucracy to solve yet another Ecological Apocalypse.

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After hunt was canceled, workers go door-to-door to teach residents about safety Friday, April 06, 2007 BY BRIAN T. MURRAY Star-Ledger Staff The trash cans along Jefferson Township's Garret Road tell the tale. Gnawed, clawed and punctured by sharp teeth, even a lone yellow receptacle marked "Bear Resistant" carries the marks of New Jersey black bears. They love garbage, especially now as they awake from winter dens to find natural foods still scarce in the early-spring forests. "There's no such thing as bear-proof cans," said resident Paul Kasauskas, who keeps his trash in a steel toolchest, known as a "gang box." "They've even knocked that over once, but only once. Everybody should get one."

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By Bill Hilts Sr.

"Divide and Conquer!"

Think about it! The gun control crowd's worst nightmare is the National Rifle Association (NRA). That gun rights organization has a phenomenal success record protecting the sanctity of the Second Amendment and they are getting
better at it every day.


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Consumer Group: Phony 'Physicians Committee' Wants Americans' Tax Dollars


Animal-Rights 'Cancer Project' Hopes to Con Congress

WASHINGTON, April 6 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Flush with $25 million in cash from the ex-wife of NBA franchise owner Leslie Alexander, and angling for more, the animal-rights Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) has asked Congress to earmark $1 billion for the promotion of meatless, milkless, and eggless "vegan" diets. In response to PCRM's March 29 formal request to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and House Republican Leader John Boehner, the nonprofit Center for Consumer Freedom (CCF) is urging Congress not to fund PCRM's misleading campaigns to eliminate all animal products from the American diet.
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Editor:
Never in my life did I believe that my hard-earned tax dollars would be used to fund a program that would invade my own home. I am referring to the DEP news release of March 12 announcing a “Five-County Enforcement Sweep on Illegal Feeding of Black Bears.”
 
This release doesn’t even hide the fact that my state government is going to come to my home, my property, and snoop around.
 
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