NWTF Preparing for Wild Turkey’s Future with Management Plan
May 16, 2008
EDGEFIELD, S.C. — Since 1973, the National Wild Turkey Federation and its dedicated volunteers have worked with wildlife agencies to help successfully restore wild turkey populations in nearly all suitable habitat in North America. As the need to trap and transfer wild turkeys becomes less necessary, it is critically important to look toward the future of North America’s greatest game birds and work to make sure that future is bright.
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Humane Solution Found For A Gnawing Problem
May 8, 2008
Beavers in Groton get reprieve, thanks to an ‘ingenious’ contraption
Water flows freely through the three pipes of a beaver impeder on Wednesday as Skip Hilliker fastens part of the device around a breach made in a beaver dam on a pond in Pequot Woods in Groton. Hilliker and a crew from the Humane Society of the United States installed the device to ease flooding caused by the beavers’ dam.
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Record-setting whitetail mount stolen from Iowa hunter
May 5, 2008
Brian Andrews, left, and his dad, Randy Andrews, of Independence, Iowa, with the 26-point mounted whitetail before it was stolen from the Andrews home in 2004.
What began as a story about a young Iowa hunter taking a world-class whitetail deer with outdated archery equipment has evolved into one with a price tag and a plea for help.
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Edgerton man gains ethical hunter honor
April 25, 2008
MADISON — A 60- to 70-yard shot last fall not only brought down a big doe for Dennis Carothers Sr. of Edgerton but also the Department of Natural Resources Ethical Hunter Award.
Carothers was hunting in southeast Dane County the day after Thanksgiving when he saw three whitetail deer on a neighbor’s land. Fifteen minutes later, he heard a shot. Awhile later, he saw three deer appear back on the land he was hunting. Carothers noticed one of the deer was limping and a brought it down with a round from his 12 gauge.
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Burnsville man kills record turkey
April 22, 2008
BURNSVILLE - Jerrell Keele knew his turkey had a pretty good beard on him when he shot him last month. He could see the black hairs hanging from the gobbler’s neck when he shot him from 37 yards away.
But the 67-year-old Burnsville resident didn’t realize that the 17.28-pound turkey actually had seven beards and scored enough points to make it a state record in the nontypical division.
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Hunter wanted funeral to be a blast
April 19, 2008
Terry wanted to go out with a bang. The avid outdoorsman had one dying wish: to have his remains scattered over his favorite hunting grounds. But he wanted no gentle goodbye.
So, according to his will, his ashes were packed into shotgun shells. Soon, a couple of dozen pals will raise their firearms, pull the triggers and thunder Terry’s ashes across a lake.
“He wanted to go out hunting,” says pal Mike.
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Exotic animal found in Milwaukie
April 18, 2008
MILWAUKIE, Ore. - A couple of Milwaukie High School students made a bizarre discovery on the way to school Tuesday morning.
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Close Encounter with a Magical Beast
April 15, 2008
My husband spotted the white deer one evening last fall. “Quick. Come quick,” he said from the dining room window. I missed it, just as I missed seeing Santa every Christmas eve when my father would swear he was flying past my bedroom window in his airborne sleigh.
I was just as skeptical about the existence of a white deer. Then, a few weeks after the encounter, my daughter and her friend saw it crossing our road on a fogbound night. They described it as ghostly, but I knew then that it was real.
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Beavers May Breathe A Dam Site Easier
April 7, 2008
Humane Society Says Device Limits Flooding But Allows Animals To Stay
•A beaver swims at the pond at Pequot Woods in Mystic Thursday.
Mystic — Beaver lovers can breathe easier. The town of Groton may have found an affordable solution to the flooding caused by the beaver dam at Pequot Woods park that won’t require trapping and killing the animals, or a complex boardwalk and bridge project.
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Film Legend Charlton Heston passes away
April 6, 2008
Film legend Charlton Heston dead at 84 By BOB THOMAS, Associated Press Writer
LOS ANGELES - Charlton Heston, who won the 1959 best actor Oscar as the chariot-racing “Ben-Hur” and portrayed Moses, Michelangelo, El Cid and other heroic figures in movie epics of the ’50s and ’60s, has died. He was 84.
The actor died Saturday night at his home in Beverly Hills with his wife Lydia at his side, family spokesman Bill Powers said.
Powers declined to comment on the cause of death or provide further details.
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