Posted on 06/20/2013 8:14:17 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
...an anonymous tip...
One thing I love about where I love is that if I were keeping a bald eagle and my neighbors found out, the only question would be BBQ or broiled.
No good deed goes unpunished.......
Oh, wait....no they want multiple agencies sucking in more of our $ as they penalize anyone who violates any one of their absurd laws.
Ultimate control - when every action is potentially criminal.
Jeremy Hill, then 33, immediately notified state authorities of his actions...
We learned that regarding the police and trying to teach an 11 year old a harmless lesson, except the police took it seriously and really ramped it up. This kid (now over 30) has hated the cops ever since. I don’t blame him.
People in these organization are thugs - at least the risk is too great that they are. You never, EVER cooperate with these hoodlums if you can help it.
This is what happens when you have TONS of bureaucrats sitting around with NOTHING IMPORTANT TO DO WITH THEIR TIME
Never underestimate the tyrant in ever LEO.
asshole feds. This guy should be rewarded.
As in all such measure of the government, the title of and purpose of the act are "protection" but control is the meaning of that word and it is not synonymous with the word "protection" as used by normal English speaking human beings.
So who’s the snitch? Was a bounty paid to “concerned citizen”?
The touching part of the story is how the eagle knew the human was trying to help it and befriended him. Nice to know that behind the beak & talons there was gratitude & love.
Only in America.....
ya mean who was the canary that sang? Concerned about his pockets.
Something that you won't find in most bureaucrats. Sadly, I'll give you at least 2-1 odds that the DNR will euthanize the eagle on the grounds that it isn't a good candidate to make it in the wild.
you shouldn’t want to eat your neighbors. think about where they’ve been.
And who is going to do all that? More accurately, who has the authority to do all that?
My brother-in-law is Australian and when we were watching a bald eagles in northern Minnesota one of the eagles shed a feather which floated to the ground near us. My brother-in-law wanted to pick up the feather to take back to Australia. I warned him that he would likely be jailed and deported for so much as possessing an eagle feather he found in the forest. It is my understanding that only Native Americans are allowed to have eagle feathers and only for ceremonial use.
The Fish and Wildlife Service, Department of the Interior, is fast tracking “kill permits” that allow operators of wind generators to kill a certain number of eagles each year without any penalty.
A proposed wind farm in Osage County, Oklahoma has put forth a plan to kill three eagles per year for 30 years.
Time for vigilante groups to take over.
SOURCE: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_impact_of_wind_power#Birds
In 2009 a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) scientist estimated that wind turbines kill 440,000 birds per year in the U.S., with future mortality expected to increase significantly as wind power generation expands by 2030 to levels about 12 times higher than 2009 levels.
This estimate was disputed by several organizations, with the USFWS later pointing out that it was only an ‘estimate’ by one of many scientists and was not officially supported by the agency.
By comparison approximately 80,000 birds are killed by aircraft in the U.S., and a 2013 report by scientists from the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service estimated that cats kill as many as 3.7 billion birds yearly in the same country.
An earlier report by the American Bird Conservancy had estimated bird predation by U.S. cats at 500 million yearly.
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