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Why Don't Poachers Ever Get What They Deserve?
We cover dozens of poaching stories every year here at MeatEater, but one thread connects them all: poachers never get what they deserve. At least, that’s what our readers tell us.
To take just one example, when a family of poachers in Idaho got caught mowing down elk from a moving truck, dozens of...
Jordan Sillars
Sep 15, 2023
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Social Media Brag Incriminates Bait Pile Poacher in Washington
A 29-year-old North Bend, Washington, man faces big penalties for poaching crimes he committed near his home during 2021 and 2022.
Jason Smith has been charged with 32 criminal counts, including two felonies, 27 gross misdemeanors, and three misdemeanors. Officials allege Smith unlawfully baited and...
Megan Plete Postol
Sep 13, 2023
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Montana Man Has Lower Jaw Torn Off In Gruesome Grizzly Attack
A Montana man had his lower jaw torn off in a gruesome grizzly attack last week in Custer Gallatin National Forest.
The U.S. Forest Service closed the Buck Ridge Yellow Mule area near Big Sky, Montana, because the bear was shot and wounded during the encounter. Officials have so far been unable to...
Jordan Sillars
Sep 11, 2023
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Your Cell Phone Data is Saving Ducks
Most hunters are focused on what ducks and geese are doing during hunting seasons. We want to know when and where the birds are flying so that our hunts are successful. Outside of the days we spend in pursuit of waterfowl, many hunters are oblivious to the remainder of the migration. But it is the...
Joe Genzel
Aug 31, 2023
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Turkey Stays Alive With Arrow Through Chest
A wild turkey with an arrow protruding through its chest has been living life as usual around Carmel, California, for the past few months.
The turkey, dubbed “Cupid” by locals, seems unfazed by the injury. First spotted last winter, the turkey has been recorded multiple times by several different...
Megan Plete Postol
Aug 31, 2023
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Jumping Out of Helicopters Onto Deer
The craziness of New Zealand’s “deer wars” is regarded as a legendary time to be alive for Kiwi hunters. Deer numbers were booming in the NZ bush and tussock grasslands, and many adventurous outdoorsmen risked lives to make the most of the situation by cashing in on a venison gold rush. It’s a...
Lakhan Clark
Aug 31, 2023
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Elk Season Is Now Jail Season: Oregon Poacher Hit with Creative Sentence
An Oregon man will spend the next three elk seasons in jail after a judge handed down a creative sentence for what law enforcement officials dubbed a “wildlife crime spree.”
Walker Erickson, 28, of Pendleton, pleaded guilty to 22 charges stemming from an 18-month period in which he poached six deer...
Jordan Sillars
Aug 30, 2023
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To Stock or Not to Stock
I can’t count the number of times I’ve run into a skunked and frustrated angler on the river who gestured angrily towards the water and said, “They got to put more fish in there.” It’s a common lament I’ve heard on rivers, lakes, streams, and ponds across the country. Bad fishing means...
Kubie Brown
Aug 28, 2023
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More Red Wolves Are Coming to the East Coast
In early August, the US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) reached a settlement with wildlife advocacy groups to reinstate a defunct red-wolf introduction program on North Carolina’s Albemarle Peninsula. The plaintiffs, collectively representing the Red Wolf Coalition, Defenders of Wildlife, and the...
Eli Fournier
Aug 18, 2023
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Man Gets Five Years For Role in ‘Biggest Poaching Case in the State of Wisconsin’
One man is going to prison and another is hiding in Texas for their role in what one prosecutor says is Wisconsin’s biggest poaching case in recent memory.
Eric A. Feavel, 41, pleaded guilty this month to three felony counts of bail jumping and three misdemeanor counts of illegal shining of deer. As...
Jordan Sillars
Aug 17, 2023
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Why This Bighorn Herd Is Declining While Others Are Thriving
High in the rocky cirques of Wyoming’s Wind River Range, Rachel Smiley and Brittany Wagler research sheep—bighorns, that is. Armed with only hiking boots and binos, the pair and their research techs seek to locate and capture hours-old lambs in alpine cliff bands and scree fields as part of a...
Eli Fournier
Aug 11, 2023
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