Brothers Brought Down on Poaching Charges 🚨

The weekend might not be here yet, but your favorite dispatch from the great outdoors is. 

So grab your coffee or whiskey (no judgement) and let's get caught up on the outdoor news and views from the past few days. 

Here's what caught our eye this week...

• Me and my idiot brother - Two brothers busted for neighborhood hunt 🏡

• He just wanted a snack - Black bear that entered snack stand meets his maker 🐻

• Wisconsin tags - Eight lucky hunters hit paydirt 🏷️

• No canned hunts - Rhode Island becomes 26th state to ban high-fenced hunts ⛔️

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BROTHERS BROUGHT DOWN ON POACHING CHARGES

Two western Massachusetts men pled guilty this week to poaching charges after shooting a nice buck on someone’s front lawn last December. 

Ira B. Doull of Worthington and his brother Seth O. Doull of Colrain pleaded guilty Tuesday to four of the six charges they were facing, including hunting from a motor vehicle, hunt deer with a rifle, hunt deer after hours, hunt gray fox in closed season

On December 2, 2023 after Massachusetts Environmental Police were tipped off that a witness saw someone blast a whitetail deer standing on a neighboring home’s lawn. According to the tip, the shots were delivered to the deer from the inside of a pickup truck that sat parked on the road.

Police were BOLO’d about the gray Toyota Tacoma pickup and eventually caught up with it not far from the scene of the crime. Inside the vehicle they found two brothers, each dressed in full camo with their weapons visible in the backseat…

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🐻 Snacky bear euthanized - A bear that waltzed into a Tennessee tourist trap has been euthanized after taking a swipe at one of the concession stand workers. The bear showed up at the Bear Can concession stand (you can’t make this sh*t up) at Anakeesta, an outdoor adventure park in eastern Tennessee. 

The bear was said to have been up on its hind legs as it scarfed down a few snacks from the small location and was about to show itself out before it had a brief altercation with one of the workers there.  As the bear turned, it ran into the worker, startling them both and causing what Tennessee officials are calling “brief physical contact.” The altercation resulted in superficial injuries to her arm and back during the encounter before the bear ran off. 

Using the state’s Bear Conflict Matrix to determine if euthanization is appropriate, it was later determined that the bear would have to be euthanized. Officials captured three bears in their search for the guilty culprit and released two before euthanizing the bear they believed was responsible for the minor attack.

🥇 One in a million - Well, more like one-in-25,000, but still. Earlier this week, Wisconsin officials announced that they had selected 8 fortunate souls to be awarded coveted elk tags for this fall’s season. With two eligible hunt zones, the tags are allocated by harvest quotas across both the Clam Lake Elk Zone and the Black River Elk Zones.  The season is set to kick off on October 12.

⛔️ No canned hunts in Rhode Island - A new law passed by Governor Daniel McKee makes Rhode Island one of the latest states to ban the practice of captive hunting. By their definition this includes any hunt that occurs within a structure designed to restrict the free movement of animals and prevent them from escaping.

The new bill was introduced after a R.I. sporting club put forth an application that would allow them to import elk and boar for members to hunt exclusively on their private property. Under the new law, in addition to not allowing hunting within any type of manmade or natural barriers, the legislation also bans the importation of any species of animals for the purposes of captive hunting, outside of domestic game birds on public property, or on private property licensed by the state Department of Environmental Management as a shooting preserve for the purpose of hunting.

Rhode Island joins 26 other states that have similar laws already in place.

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