Hunting
Minnesota X-rays venison bound for community food pantries after finding that 5.3 percent of venison sampled contained lead fragments from bullets. Funding comes from $160,000 appropriated by legislature, an increase in nonresident hunting license fees, hunter donations.
By Doug Smith
Star Tribune (MN) 2008-12-19 (entry)
Farming, hunting, fishing, forest-clearing, pollution and climate change push one quarter to one-third of all land mammals toward extinction; one in three marine mammals is on the same path. 'Without the political and public will to spend money on species conservation we are pressed up against the wall,' says study director.
By Ian Sample
The Guardian (UK) 2008-10-06 (entry)
USDA aims to catch herd of 50-100 wild pigs in New Jersey pinelands. Feral hogs compete with native ground-nesting birds - turkey, quail - by eating their eggs. Traps feature saloon-style doors that first are wired open to allow free access to corn bait, but later will be set to swing shut with prey inside. Three hogs, one 250 pounds, have been trapped.
By Peter Mucha
The Philadelphia Inquirer 2008-08-23 (entry)
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4004 chart shows chronic wasting disease among free-ranging deer and elk by county.
When prions can jump species barriers, a new kind of prion is produced, researchers learn. Prion proteins cause Creutzfeld-Jakob disease and mad cow disease, and have infected 208 people, mostly in UK. Scientists now study whether prion-induced chronic wasting disease (CWD) in elk and deer could jump to humans; disease has long dormant period. And: CDC, in 2004, said risk of CWD to humans was low (click 'See also').
By Amber Dance
Nature News 2008-09-04 (entry)
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Cottontail rabbits, eating well where the living is easy, have reached bumper crop status in New England region, moving gardeners to protect their broccoli, cabbage and cauliflower - and delighting hunters. And: Gourmet magazine's recipe for Orecchiette with Rabbit Ragu (click 'See also').
By Kevin P. O'Connor
The New York Times 2008-09-04 (entry)
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Sarah Palin, vice president pick of GOP candidate John McCain, is a mooseburger-eating former beauty contestant and the Alaska governor. She doesn't mind shooting caribou because it 'has had a good life. It's been free out there on the tundra, not caged up on a farm with no place to go.' She laid off the chef in the governor's mansion - no need for that, she said. Her husband, a native Yup'ik Eskimo (click 'See also'), is a former commercial fisherman.
By Cathleen Decker and Michael Finnegan
Los Angeles Times 2008-08-30 (entry)
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Food pantries in Minnesota pull donated venison after concerns over lead bullet fragments in meat. Health officials weren't sure that venison in hunters' freezers is a health risk. Agriculture department began testing food-pantry venison in March after North Dakota found lead fragments in food-shelf venison; custom meat processor, which butchered hundreds of deer last year, says he and his workers avoid bullet-damaged areas.
By Chris Niskanen
Pioneer Press (MN) 2008-04-11 (entry)
Report detailing pharmaceutical contamination of nation's water supply prompts senators to set hearings and direct Environmental Protection Agency to investigate and report. The series explains that drugs - mostly excreted residue that's flushed down the toilet - have polluted water and may harm wildlife and human health. EPA says Americans need to be careful when discarding prescription drugs.
By Martha Mendoza
The Associated Press; The Seattle Times 2008-03-11 (entry)
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Florida's wild boars crowd out native species - turkey and quail - for food and are a significant agricultural pest.
Hunter braves the razor-sharp tusks of Florida's wild boars for the chance to brine the meat in vinegar and ice, then transform it into roast loin and Tuscan ragu over pappardelle. For Epicurious recipe, click 'See also.'
By Rob Cox
The Wall Street Journal (may require subscription) 2008-03-07 (entry)
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Hunters worry that farm/food bill negotiations will neglect Conservation Reserve Program, which pays farmers to maintain wildlife habitat and protect water quality. Program, already challenged by high commodity crop and land prices, is credited with producing extra 2.2 million ducks and 13.5 million pheasants annually, protecting 170,000 miles of stream banks and keeping 450 million tons of topsoil where it belongs.
By Faith Bremner
Argus Leader (SD) 2008-03-01 (entry)
Gardens for wildlife need the same care as do kitchen gardens for our own use. Consider sunlight, soil health and convenience for animals (as close to the woods as possible, for easy escape). In general, a few small plots in different sites have more likelihood of success than one large plot, and aim for succulent greenery.
By Geordon T. Howell
Daily News (KY) 2008-03-02 (entry)
Literature of localism omits hunters, the original locavores, who manage and harvest a sustainable, healthful food supply from the lands we love. Maintaining the ability to cull semi-rural and suburban deer herds, which annually injure 29,000 people in deer-vehicle collisions, and infect 13,000 Americans with Lyme disease, is just one of our challenges.
By Steven Rinella
The New York Times 2007-12-14 (entry)
For this family, hunting, fishing and love of outdoors is a 50-year fest of togetherness, with mom, now 80, carrying her own gun afield in pursuit of ducks, pheasants, ruffed grouse and deer. This season, she just bagged her 52nd deer.
By Doug Smith
Star-Tribune (MN) (may require registration) 2007-11-10 (entry)
Georgia reaches one millionth meal served through its venison donation program; hunger-relief organizations have fed 65,000 a year with meat distributed through the state's association of food banks.
Dawson Times (GA) 2007-10-22 (entry)
To butcher donated venison for Minnesota's food pantries, Minnesota legislature sets aside $160,000 and raises price of non-resident hunting license $5; hunters can also keep their deer but donate $1, $3, or $5 to the food shelf cause when they buy deer license at electronic license stations.
By John Cross
The Free Press (MN) 2007-10-27 (entry)
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Authorities should allow hunters on railroad property, which constitute valuable habitats. Railroad's trespassing arrests add to problem of shrinking access to land for hunting.
By Scott Rall
Worthington Daily Globe 2007-10-26 (entry)
Reasons for hunting, fishing are myriad, but many have to do with connection to nature, delicious food, and as remedies for cabin fever.
By Shawn Clark
Sheboygan Press (WI) 0000-00-00 (entry)
Program that last year brought 35,000 pounds of hunter-donated venison to low-income clients of southern Wisconsin food pantry endangered by budget cuts; testing the deer for Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) reduced by 60 percent; experts predict explosion in deer population.
By Christina Beam
Reedsburg Times Press (WI) 0000-00-00 (entry)
In old days, no Kazakh man was a true man if he did not have a horse, a hunting dog and an eagle, but tradition is dying and poachers have endangered the saker falcon; conservation plan in Central Asia involves both birds.
By Natalya Antelava
BBC News 2007-08-06 (entry)
