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Search results for "Game and Fish" ...
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"State 7th in U.S. in boat mishaps accidents"
Arizona has one of the highest boating accident rates in the country. It is also one of the only states to not have boater education laws or require boat operators to take any type of education course before going out on the water. The National Transportation Safety Board has been urging Arizona to create and enforce such safety laws to decrease the number of accidents.
Tags: National Transportation Safety Board; boating accidents; personal watercraft; Arizona State Parks Department; Sen. Linda Gray; Game and Fish
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Toxic Showdown
Rita Smith's husband Steve won his court case with his former employer Searles Valley Minerals regarding the toxins that killed thousands of migratory birds in a nearby lake.
Tags: department of fish and game; health problems; substances; poison; inspector; brine;
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Felons Hunting with guns slip past state law
More than 850 felons had been found to hunt and kill deer with a "modern firearm," which is not allowed by state law. It was discovered that state agencies did not run background checks on felons before issuing a hunting license.
Tags: deer season; game tag; Arkansas Game and Fish Commission; convict; weapon; rifle;
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Stanford's disappearing game refuge.
The Stanford University foothills, which are major spots of academic and technological advancement today, are in fact lands dedicated by the state legislature as a state game refuge in 1927. The Weekly reveals how the California Department of Fish & Game abandoned management of the refuge in the early 1950s. Further, the story discusses why the refuge status remains relevant today, despite Fish & Game and Stanford's assertions that the refuge as an entity worth protection is obsolete.
Tags: ornithological; Junipero Serra Road; Stanford Dish Area; Don Feria
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The Dating Game
Dateline NBC attempts to answer the question "how safe and fresh is the meat, chicken and fish we buy in the supermarkets? ... By conducting hundreds of interviews, examining regulations in 50 states, and secretly tracking thousands of pieces of meat, Dateline uncovered evidence of a widespread deception crossing both state and corporate lines, involving the largest grocery store chains in the nation. (The) investigation centered on 'sell-by' dates -- those tiny dates stamped on every package that are supposed to tell us how old meat is and when to throw it away."
Tags: food; meat; chicken; fish; safe; sell-by; supermarkets; chains; TAPE; TRANSCRIPT
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A Fish Story: Last December A Poisonous Chemical Spill Wiped Out White River's Fish Population. Officials Say the Problem's Gone - But the Fish Still Are, Too.
A December 1999 chemical spill from a wastewater treatment plant killed fish along a 50-mile stretch of Indiana's White River. Once home to a variety of game fish - catfish, crappie and bass - the river now "offers about as much sport as a washbasin." The treatment plant apparently took a week to admit the incident to the Indiana Department of Environmental Management. In turn, IDEM did not notify the public for several more days about the spill. For three decades before the spill, the river had made a comeback to a viable waterway. Fortunately for those who care about the river, "the poison that caused the damage seems to be gone" and the river will hopefully recover. Environmentalists say that IDEM needs to be staffed with more environmental professionals, and that plants should be required to report anomalies within two hours.
Tags: fish; chemical spill; Indianapolis; white river; Anderson Wastewater Treatment Plant
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Huge Land Swap Proposed
The Spokesman-Review's "series breaks the story of how a land broker was secretly planning to trade 2 million acres of public land in Idaho - national forests and BLM land - to logging, mining and ranching interests. It shows how federal land managers, such as the BLM, were kept in the dark, and explores the background of the company pushing the trades. Finally, the series shows how the land broker purposefully deceived the public about the value of an earlier land trade - that it holds up as one of its finest accomplishments - and made millions of dollars at public expense..."
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The Hunting of the Poacher King
Outside Magazine reports that "...The seeds of Ray Hillsman's downfall were sown by his mouth, which was big and which, for the life of him, he couldn't keep shut... Once he illustrated his tale by flashing a wad of $50 and $100 bills - profits, he claimed, from selling the gallbladders of his prey to an Asian businessman down in Eugene (Oregon.) Nobody knows for sure how many bears Hillsman and his poaching ring killed, but Oregon officials estimate that they wasted upward of 50 to 100 black bears a year for five to ten years...And for a while, nothing could stop him--not (veteran game warden Richard) Lane, not the cops, and certainly not his own conscience. Hillsman had become the poacher king."
Tags: Poacher; fish and wildlife; DNR; illegal trade; black market; Asian medicine
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Pay Dirt! The Big Business of High School Football
High school football is a big deal in Georgia. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution set out to uncover specifics on just how important the game is to communities throughout the state, the role of parent-run touchdown clubs, the level of local and state tax monies spent on football - particularly for coaching salaries.
Tags: Teaching contracts; Booster clubs
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NBC6 discovers and rescues animals used in a state experiment financed by specialty license plate sales. The animals ended up in the hands of a Texas lion hunter. (May 9, Aug. 4, 13, 1996)
Tags: Daniels Zamost Craven Captured and caged Contest entry Florida Game and Fish Commission 13 pgs. TAPE