From the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife

MILLINOCKET, Maine – In four separate instances on Monday, Judy and Rick Givens encountered moose standing on snowmobile trails between Millinocket and Jo-Mary Mountain.

Twice Mrs. Givens was frightened – and angry. Not with the moose, but with the snowmobilers riding on the trails from the opposite direction.

Mr. and Mrs. Givens had slowed their machines and waited for the moose to move, she said in a telephone call to the Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife. But the snowmobilers approaching from the other side of the trail did not.

“They know it isn’t safe, but they think it is fun to get as close as they can,” said Mrs. Givens, who called to express her concern about the safety of moose on the trails. “They are stressing the moose. The moose are exhausted. They don’t need this.”

This season’s high snow pack has been making it difficult for moose and deer to travel to and from winter yards. And last weekend’s storm left a crusty coating of ice on the snow, adding to an already difficult task, according to IF&W Wildlife Biologist Lee Kantar.

“Deer, moose and other animals are looking for easier travel out of the deep snow to reduce energy expenditure and will be using the packed snowmobile trails, logging roads and other routes to make their treks,” Kantar said. “Outdoor recreationists need to take caution in approaching wildlife in this situation.”

In one of the instances Monday, Mrs. Givens said she didn’t know if the moose was going to charge her or attempt to move out of the way. The other snowmobilers were moving closer to the animal.

“His head was down and his ears were pinned back,” said Mrs. Givens, noting that the moose did leave the trail. “I didn’t know what he was going to do.”

According to the Maine Warden Service, it is against state law to use a motorized vehicle such as a snowmobile or an ATV to intentionally kill, injure or harass wild animals or birds. A person found in violation commits a Class E misdemeanor, which is subject to a $1,000 fine and 30 days in jail.

The Maine Warden Service and IF&W biologists are urging snowmobilers to be considerate of the plight of wildlife this winter, and to slow down and use caution if they see a deer or moose on the trails.

“It’s always important to drive at a reasonable speed for conditions and give yourself time to slow down and stop if an obstacle such as a moose or a tree is on the path,” said Maine Warden Service Captain Joel Wilkinson.

Kantar agrees.

“Snowmobilers and ATV riders need to watch their line of sight when traveling down trails,” Kantar said. “They need to be able to see far out what is ahead of them and avoid potential collisions with animals and other objects.”

He said people, too, need to be “very cautious” and avoid driving around a moose.

“They certainly should avoid doing this if it means that they have to closely approach an animal,” Kantar said. “You don’t know how a moose is going to react.”

The Maine Warden Service and IF&W biologists are issuing the following tips on how to safely share the trails with wildlife:

* Maintain a fair distance from the animals.
* Give moose and deer ample space to move off the trails. They need an escape route.
* If you suddenly come upon an animal, slow down and stop. Do not move towards him/her or corner him/her.
* Do not approach deer or moose. The wildlife already is experiencing high stress levels and energy deficits due to severe winter conditions. Getting close to the animals will stress them more.

“If deer or moose are in the path, they need time to move away from people and look for a place to jump off the trail to gain access to the woods,” Kantar said. “I think people need to critically evaluate the situation, back off, and give the animal time to move.”

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It is a real shame that we as a society have come to the point where we perceive lying as a good thing, something that we use as a tool to see a result. In other words, the end justifies the means.

Dr. Gail Saltz says we begin learning to lie at about age 4 or 5. We discover that lying gives us power in the selection of our words. Adults lie for various reasons but an interesting point that Saltz makes is the expectations of our society and who we might expect to lie and who we hold to a higher standard.

We expect, for example, less honesty from politicians than from scientists. We have a vision of purity about those who are doing research, while we imagine that politicians will at least shade the truth about themselves in order to get elected.

I think Saltz, if given the time, would also add to that politicians’ list the need to lie in order promote political agendas and achieve personal gain.

Animal disease is a great tool to manipulate public opinion. The reason is simple really. People don’t like disease and often it is feared and if presented to the masses of people in a particular way could incite riots. Obviously there are times when people need to be made very much aware of the dangers concerning disease and animals, especially if it is animals we eat. We want to know about beef recalls and things like mad cow disease, etc..

One disease that many people don’t know about that occurs in wild animals such as deer, elk and moose is chronic wasting disease. The truth is very few people know anything about it. Those who do are more than likely hunters and ranchers, along with wildlife biologists and a few politicians who might see an opportunity to use the disease for political gain.

Using disease to instill fear in people in order to achieve agendas of politics and/or personal goals is a lousy thing to do. Unfortunately, politics is a dirty profession and as Dr. Saltz says, we as a society expect nothing better from the likes of such politicians. I suppose this is why they do it a lot and are good at it.

Three states that I am aware of are in the midst of debates about the relationship with disease and the domestic cervid industry - cervid in these cases meaning deer and elk. Those three states are Idaho, North Dakota and Oregon. There may be more. Certain groups or individuals want to shut down these industries for various reasons but all of them like to throw out the fears of disease tactic.

Chronic wasting disease is only one of them and I’d like to give you an example of how this is done by a politician. Sen. David Langhorst of Idaho has been on a campaign for some time to rid the state of Idaho of the domestic elk industry. Over the past couple of years he has resorted to varying degrees of assorted reasons why there shouldn’t be domestic elk in Idaho. He’s tried taking off large chunks in efforts to end it all immediately to settling more for the incremental approach, much the same way as the groups like PETA and the Humane Society of the United States have done.

Mr. Langhorst has taken up blogging, I suppose for much the same reasons that I do, to provide a platform where people can come and read about issues and discuss them. Lanhort’s blog can be found on the Idaho Statesman’s website.

A few days ago, he posted a blog called, “Elk for Sale” and has garnered some debate and comments from an array of readers.

The post was a great fiction piece in which he attempts to scare readers into painting a picture of what it is like in Idaho on these elk ranches he so despises. But it is later on down in the comment sections when he begins presenting more, what he calls, facts. He even titles it, “Elk Farm Diseases: True or False?”

I don’t have time right now to go through everyone of his claims of facts so, I will address only his presentation of facts about chronic wasting disease in an attempt to inform readers of the truth about the disease.

The first documented case of CWD was in a confined deer pen in Ft. Collins, CO. (true; there is speculation that the facility had previously held sheep infected with scrapie, a CWD-like disease)

Some of those deer were let loose, for whatever reason. (true)

The first known area of widespread CWD in wild deer and elk was in the area around Ft. Collins. (true)

CWD continues to spread outward from that area, infecting the Wyoming/Colorado/Nebraska deer and elk herds. (true; this is why some claim that wild elk are more likely to bring disease to Idaho.)

In the 1990s, Colorado game farms shipped elk infected with CWD to other states, where CWD was consequently found in game farms. (true)

As of 2007, all states where CWD had been found in wild animals also had game farms (true)

As of 2007, there were three states where CWD was documented in game farm animals and NOT yet found in wild game (MN, OK, KY) (true)

If I may be bold enough to clarify some of Mr. Langhorst’s claims of fact.

In 1967 a wasting syndrome was first recognized in mule deer in a research laboratory near Ft. Collins, Colorado. It wasn’t until 1978 that scientists (Dr. Beth Williams) actually recognized this syndrome as a Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy (TSE).

As it is written in most every scientific writing about the origins of CWD, it is not documented nor confirmed where CWD comes from. Chronic Wasting Disease Alliance states that, “modeling suggests the disease may have been present in free-ranging populations of mule deer for more than 40 years.” They further go on to explain that CWD is just as likely to be a spontaneous event that could have happened in the wild or in captivity.

It may be possible that CWD is a spontaneous TSE that arose in deer in the wild or in captivity and has biological features promoting transmission to other deer and elk.

Dr. Trent Bollinger describes the origins of CWD in this fashion.

Where or how CWD originated is not known. One explanation is that CWD is actually sheep scrapie occurring in cervids. It could also have originated from a prion disease in another species which has not yet been discovered. Alternatively, the disease may have developed independently in cervids with spontaneous converison PrP C to the resistant form and then subsequent spread to other individuals.

Langhorst alludes to the idea that infected sheep may have been the carriers of TSE in scrapie but once again science does not clearly support that theory. They are not even sure that the TSE can be passed back and forth.

It should be pointed out that the reason the disease was discovered in this lab was because of research. The disease wasn’t even heard of by this time. It wasn’t as though scientists were testing wild and domestic deer for a disease they hadn’t heard of yet. Where would be a likely place to first discover such a disease? As with most diseases, in a lab.

The area around Ft. Collins and in northeastern Colorado and southeastern Wyoming became known as the “CWD endemic area”. I have no record of the deer within this one facility being released. Official records have stated that they do not know whether the disease, which by the way occurs naturally, was already present in free ranging wild populations of mule deer. Scientific models done in 2000 indicate that CWD was prevalent in the wild for at least 30 years.

While it is true that there has been some spreading of the disease “naturally” outside the “CWD endemic area”, scientists say that this is insignificant. Scientists once again speculate that they believe most of the cases of CWD showing up far from the “CWD endemic area” came from uncontrolled, unregulated shipments of diseased animals.

However, wildlife surveillance begun in earnest in 1997 by wildlife agencies led to detection of CWD outside of the historic endemic area.

Langhorst doesn’t provide any links to substantiate his claims so it is difficult to know exactly of what he is writing and when. Documented history shows that the first recorded event of CWD found in domestic elk occurred in 1997 in South Dakota. Surveillance has indicated that diseased elk were shipped from South Dakota to Saskatchewan. It was after the South Dakota event that CWD was found in farmed elk in Colorado.

People should be made aware that during this time, little was known about CWD and therefore it took some time before it was discovered that diseased animals were being shipped across the country and the impact the disease can have on wild and domestic ungulates.

Mr. Langhorst tosses out claims of which states have CWD and which states have elk ranches etc., which provides for some wild speculation but it still proves nothing from a scientific perspective. Science says that they probably will never know the origins of the disease. They have yet to fully understand the complexities of how the disease is passed from one animal to another.

It is easy to sit here and say that all states that have elk farms also have CWD, which is only an attempt to convince readers that elk farms are the origin of the disease and the cause of the spread and that simply is not true. It is quite unfair to force one’s speculation on others as facts.

If Mr. Langhorst had chosen to be completely forthcoming in his facts, he would have also explained to readers that in some of the states he claims that have documented cases of CWD in elk ranches, they don’t test any of the wild ungulates for disease and those that do are often times are sparsely done.

As with all livestock programs, when diseases are recognized, efforts are put forth to understand, diagnose and deal with it to limit or halt the spread. This was successfully done in the Saskatchewan elk industry. With continued improvements to testing and further studies to help scientists understand how the disease is spread and how to stop it, there is hope for a good clean industry.

As states, such as Idaho, that have a great track record in keeping their industry free of CWD, it shows how a livestock industry can continue to grow and flourish and there’s no need to try to scare the people into believing things that simply aren’t true.

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Chris Cobbett, a contributing writer for U.S. Hunting Today and Skinny Moose Media and his partner Nate Fenderson of Northwoods Outdoors, are very pleased to find their cable television program, Northwoods Adventures TV, ranked among the top 50 outdoor programs.

Chris, a full-time teacher in the Oxford Hills region of Maine, and Nate, a Quality supervisor for Georgia Pacific, travel all across the country on hunting and outdoor adventures. They film what they do and put together quality programming that airs on many cable television networks across North America.

This past fall, Chris and Nate volunteered their time to work with Aubrey Olson in helping to grant her a “Hunt of a Lifetime” in bagging a Maine bull moose. You can read that story and watch video here.

Skinny Moose Media contacted Chris at his home in Norway, Maine and asked him if this was a goal of his and Nate’s from the beginning. This was his comment:

” As Nate and I look back at the past 5 years and reflect on the growth of the show, we are filled with pride. Very few people gave us a snowball’s chance. After all, look at the concept. Two rednecks from yahoo Maine trying to produce a show for a national audience. When we started we knew nothing about the cameras, editing, or marketing. I would not have wanted the Vegas odds on our little show surviving the first year.

Somehow we have made a go of it. We attribute our success to two factors. One, a strong viewer base that likes to see working class people in the outdoors. And secondly, the support of other media helping draw viewers to the show. We are thankful to all the outdoors writers , web support, and Skinny Moose Media for all the help along the way.

In the future we look to expand the show to include our families more . Our goal is to showcase the camaraderie and excitement of the outdoor sports.”

The program ranking was done by Back Channel Media out of Boston.

Backchannelmedia Research is the only free web-based media search engine and is also one of the largest dynamically generated TV listings databases ever created, with over 255,000,000 web pages and growing.

Northwoods Adventures TV is now ranked among some of the very best of outdoor programming in America.

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The Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife estimates that Maine has between 25,000 and 30,000 moose. A new method of estimating moose populations that is used in New Hampshire, bumps the estimate up to 60,000 prompting outcries from some to triple or quadruple the number of permits being awarded.

In an article in the Bangor Daily News, some are saying the state needs to issue more moose hunting permits because there are too many moose. On the other end, animal protection groups such as the Wildlife Alliance of Maine is saying that they don’t believe much of anything the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife does or says and puts little stock in their work.

Maine democrat Rep. Tom Watson says increasing moose permits would be entering a bloodbath.

Rep. Tom Watson, a Bath Democrat, warned that without the hard science to back up the need for a dramatic increase in moose permits, sportsmen would be walking into a blood bath.

I’m not sure exactly what that means but the truth is very few of us know and understand the methods used in determining game populations like deer and moose. It’s not “exact” science because the most accurate methods are obviously cost prohibitive. So biologists put together glorified logarithms and each year take collected data and plug it in to the formulas and come up with some numbers.

Evidently there is a new method being used in New Hampshire that relies on reported information from hunters afield. Whether it’s accurate or not remains to be seen but the difficulty comes in changing methods midstream.

So, what should we do? It would seem that switching methods one year and tripling or quadrupling moose permits the same year would be irresponsible and rash. Shouldn’t we be asking ourselves first if the new method utilizes the best available science and provides more accurate information? If so then how do we implement the change?

George Smith, executive director of the Sportsmans Alliance of Maine put it this way.

“It’s just not acceptable to not know how many moose we’ve got,”

Is it feasible to transition accurately from one method of population estimates to another or do we need to go afield and to the air and begin a costly and time consuming effort to count moose? These are all decisions that will need to be made and those decisions based on what is best for Maine and the moose management program.

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Aubrey Olson came to Maine to participate in a moose hunt through Hunt of a Lifetime. Skinny Moose Media, LLC and U.S. Hunting Today are proud sponsors of the Hunt of a Lifetime organization. This moose hunting trip was hosted by Sebec Lake Lodge and our friends at Northwoods Adventures, Chris Cobbett and Nate Fenderson, along with all their staff. Chris Cobbett is a blogger for the Skinny Moose Media network as well as a contributing writer for U.S. Hunting Today. If you visit Chris’s blog, there you’ll find many of his videos of his hunting adventures across North America.

There is little that can compare to the thrill and excitement that participants in the Hunt of a Lifetime program experience. Aubrey Olson is just one of many kids who have been selected to participate. And one of the things that makes Hunt of a Lifetime so successful is the unselfish giving of individuals and businesses like Sebec Lake Lodge and Northwoods Adventures.

If you can, watch the videos below made by Northwoods Andventures TV and experience part of the giving, the excitement and a lifetime of memories that Aubrey and her Dad will share. The video is done in three segments. You can also find this video at Northwoods Adventures along with many of their other shows.

Thank you Nate and Chris and Sebec Lake Lodge for helping to make Aubrey’s life that much more fulfilled.

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AUGUSTA, Maine — In order to meet the public goal of decreasing the moose population in eastern Aroostook county, the Department is proposing to substantially increase the number of moose permits available in WMDs 3 and 6. Two public hearings will be held to discuss the proposal.

The department is looking to increase the number of permits in WMD 3 from 455 to 635, a 40% increase from this past season, and in WMD 6, the department has proposed to increase the number of permits from 500 to 715, a 43% increase.

“The increase is consistent with the public’s desire and the department’s goal to decrease the moose population in that area of the state,” said Roland D. Martin, Commissioner, Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife.

The first scheduled public hearing is set for Tuesday, December 4, 2007, 6:30 p.m., at the Mattanawcook High School on 33 Reed Drive in Lincoln; On Thursday, December 6, there will be another public hearing at 6:30 p.m. at the Caribou High School Performing Arts Center on 308 Sweden Street in Caribou.

The Caribou public hearing was scheduled due to the increase in permit numbers in the area. Lincoln was also chosen for a public hearing after the Department received a petition signed by over 1,800 people that asked the department to decrease the moose population in that area. Commissioner Martin is hopeful that the public hearings will allow citizens a forum to express their opinions concerning the moose population in Lincoln and surrounding areas.

Written comments on the proposal can be submitted until December 17, 2007. Comments can be sent to Andrea.Erskine@maine.gov by email or by mail to Andrea Erskine, Inland Fisheries and Wildlife, 284 State Street, 41 SHS, Augusta, ME 04333.

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On Monday I posted some photographs depicting gates, rocks, water bars and signs indicating lands owned by Roxanne Quimby are now closed. As most of you know, Roxanne Quimby, founder of Burt’s Bees and recently finished selling off the remainder of her interest in Burt’s Bees to Clorox, has used much of her wealth to buy up large tracts of land and locking out hunters, trappers, etc.

Those pictures with a brief description, were sent to me by reader Steve Lane of Millinocket, Maine. Yesterday, he sent the below photograph to better show how, contrary to what some have said that these lands aren’t hunted and contain poor deer and moose habitat, this land closure will affect him in the future.

This bull moose was taken by permittee and sub-permittee, Barbara and Frank Stratton. According to Lane, the moose was shot about 4 miles inside the gate shown in a previous photo and shown again below. Lane describes the moose habitat in that area this way.

The growth up in that area is about chest high now…..prime moose habitat for the next few years.

Below, shows the gate Lane is referring to that blocks access to Quimby’s land on the Kellogg Mountain Road.

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The Maine moose hunt, split into two seasons, one in late September, the other in early October, saw hunters frustrated with an unusually warm first week of the moose hunt hampering chances. As a result, 2,052 hunters bagged moose, equaling a success rate of about 71%. That compares to 82% last season and 76% in 2005.

2880 permits were issued this year.

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This is a reminder for you to tune in to Open Air With Tom Remington today at 3 p.m. for a brand new show. Today my guest is Erik Simpson and resident of Idaho Falls, Idaho and avid hunter. He details us with his once-in-a-lifetime moose hunting trip in which he took a bull that he believes will make the record books as perhaps maybe the top ten bulls in Idaho. I know the story is thrilling and you don’t want to miss it.

If for some reason you are unable to listen in a 3 p.m. today, visit the Skinny Moose Radio website after the show and you can stream the audio or download it for podcasting or to your own computer. Either way, this is a show you’ll enjoy.

Below is a photo taken of Erik holding his moose rack.

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CONTACT:
Linda Verville, Wildlife Division: (603) 271-2461
Jane Vachon or Liza Poinier: (603) 271-3211 or (603) 271-5619
October 22, 2007

MOOSE HUNT OPENING WEEKEND BRINGS 28.6% SUCCESS

CONCORD, N.H. — More than a quarter of New Hampshire’s moose hunters were successful during the first two days of the 20th annual New Hampshire moose season, achieving a 28.6% success rate on the opening weekend of the hunt.On Saturday and Sunday (October 20 and 21), a total of 193 moose were taken by moose hunters statewide - 141 bulls and 52 cows.By this same point in the season last year (2006), a total of 200 moose had been taken.

“I’m actually surprised that hunters have done this well so far, in light of the hot weather,” said Kristine Rines, Moose Project Leader for the New Hampshire Fish and Game Department.Moose are equipped with thick coats of hair, which makes them well adapted for cold temperatures; when it’s hot, they tend to seek shade and do not move around much, making it harder for hunters to find them, Rines explained.

The two largest moose taken so far were bulls that weighed in at 880 pounds each (dressed weight); one was shot in Wildlife Management Unit B, and the other was taken in Unit E1.One successful opening weekend hunter reported that he had never even shot a deer before, let alone a moose — guess you could call that beginner’s luck!

New Hampshire’s nine-day moose hunt continues through Sunday, October 28, 2007.

This year, a record 16,779 people entered the 2007 moose hunt lottery, held last spring, for a chance to be offered one of the 675 permits issued to hunt moose in the Granite State.

For more about moose hunting in New Hampshire, visit http://www.wildlife.state.nh.us/Hunting/Hunt_species/hunt_moose.htm.

The New Hampshire Fish and Game Department is the guardian of the state’s fish, wildlife and marine resources and their habitats. Visit http://www.HuntNH.com.

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John Holyoke, Bangor Daily News, reports on efforts by the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife to inspect harvested moose during Maine’s second half of the moose hunt. The inspection includes information being gathered about ticks, that can eventually kill a moose. Moose become infested with thousands of ticks and often die during the winter months. Biologists are attempting to gather information in order to better understand how the tick affects the moose in hopes of finding ways to prevent mortality.

Holyoke’s report also talks about how weather and changing landscape has and is having an affect on moose harvests in some areas.

Photo provided by Albert Ladd - These are ticks left behind when a moose rubbed them off during the winter. At times thousands of these ticks can take residents in a moose’s hide, sometimes with lethal results.

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Domesticating a moose seems like an oddity here in the U.S. but Russians have been trying to do it for centuries - with little success I might add. They say that moose milk is higher in fat than cows milk - that’s just what we need to inject into our already high fat diets. So, let’s say for a minute that you did want some moose milk. What would you do to get it?

Here’s one method being tried in Russia.

Ekaterina Yegorskaya said: “In May when the female moose give birth we get close to them, then later on, when the baby moose are taken from them, we smell like the baby moose and she then sees me as her child, that’s why she lets me milk her.”

How cuddly!

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According to the Great Fall Tribune, an 800 pound bull moose that had taken up temporary residence in Fleshman Creek near Sacajawea Park, Montana was drugged by Fish, Wildlife and Parks wardens, had its antlers sawed off and was dragged off on a trailer to a hunting zone where only antlered moose can be shot.

The moose hunting season opens on September 15th. Because the moose was drugged, the meat would not be edible and so officials opted to de-antler the moose and turn him loose in an antlered only moose hunting zone.

An 800-pound moose is a sizable creature as moose go and this one is now turned loose with no antlers heading into rutting season. Did they also give the moose something to control his natural urges to spar with other bull moose for mating rights? They do tend to get a bit frisky you know. Perhaps they sent him off to the woods with a hand written note hanging around his neck reminding him he couldn’t fight because he didn’t have any horns.

Am I missing something here? Somebody jump in and tell me that this moose, now bald atop the head, can manage just fine with the other testosterone laden bull moose in his new digs. Couldn’t they have just spray-painted him hunter orange or something?

Just asking!!

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Texas billionaire Dan Duncan was in Russia on a guided hunting trip in 2002. While there he illegally shot a moose and a sheep from a helicopter. He says he admitted immediately when questioned that he had done it and claimed he didn’t know it was illegal.

Reuters News today is reporting that a U.S. federal grand jury is questioning him about the hunt.

No charges were ever brought against Duncan in Russia and he and his lawyer, Rusty Hardin, are questioning why the U.S. is interested in this hunt that took place on Russian soil.

Hardin expressed astonishment at the investigation in Texas by a U.S. prosecutor involving an event in Russia. The applicable law could by a 107-year-old law intended to stop international trafficking in rare plants and animals, he said.

“What the hell is the U.S. interest in bringing felony charges here for hunting on Russian soil, where not one single person has complained?” Hardin told the Chronicle. “Is this really the best use of our prosecutorial resources?”

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