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Last Thursday I headed to the mountains for a hunting trip in central Idaho. To check a map, I pulled over at a convenient spot across the Forest Service road from a camper. The hunter at the camper came to help point the way. He told me I had only six miles to go before [...]
Nalcor suggests routing powerlines through the Long Range Mountains, and outfitters object because it will be bad for woodland caribou and business.
CBC News.
Corporate clients, people who don’t want to get their own equipment, and people who just bought their equipment, and want to know what to do with it.
Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune.
Water quality in the Illinois River of Oklahoma is the subject of a lawsuit by the state of Oklahoma against Tyson Foods Inc., Cargill Inc., Cal-Maine Foods, Inc.; Tyson Poultry Inc., Tyson Chicken Inc., Cobb-Vantress Inc., Cargill Turkey Production L.L.C., George’s Inc., George’s Farms Inc., Peterson Farms Inc., and Simmons Foods Inc.
The companies spread waste [...]
In another case of “No Grace Period,” charter boat operators in New York salt waters will have until October 1, 2009, to purchase a Recreational Marine Fishing License for $400. According to Captain Chris Gatley, the purpose of the license is to be in compliance with a National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration requirement for a registry [...]
Todd and Elmer Payne of Lethal Impact Outfitters, were convicted of misdemeanor charges of baiting turkeys, illegally tagging deer, and providing false information to investigators. They lost their hunting licenses for a year, but according to their attorney, they are still in business, as guides are not required to have hunting licences. The father/son team [...]
Guides on the St. Croix, Minnesota, or Mississippi Rivers have to carry a “Six Pack” license from the U.S. Coast Guard to operate on these rivers, according to an article in the Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune, which was not enforced in the past. Sudden enforcement—with no grace period—is pushing many guides off the rivers [...]
In 1994, I was looking for an outfitter in Wyoming. I had pulled a coveted moose tag for famous Unit 5. I did my homework, getting a list of guides from Wyoming Game & Fish, then called several outfitters with my list of questions, and asking them to send a list of references.
Guides caught in Florida and British Columbia
Washington Fishing Guide Guilty of Violations; Gets BC Penalties
Benjamin Trainer, 26, of Blaine, Wash., the operator of Step Outside Guide Services, entered a guilty plea in in Duncan provincial court to exceeding his daily quota of rockfish, failing to return fish to the water in the least harmful manner, [...]
Al Solomon, a 22-year-old whitewater-rafting guide from western Massachusetts, performed CPR on a 70-year-old woman who suffered cardiac arrest on an airplane flight. With no doctor on board, Solomon and a Marine Corp Sergeant came to the ill woman’s aid. They restored her pulse, and is expected to make a full recovery.
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