...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.
Only in America.....
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.
“How dare you shoot the King’s deer in the King’s forest!”
These are examples of idiots following the letter of the law but ignoring the spirit of the law. This is what Judges used to be for...to throw out cases that are ridiculously misguided.
Inside many government agents is a fascist just itching to inflict harm.
I think the writer’s heart is in the right place, but she really needs to report the facts.
I clicked on the very link that she supplied to read about the woodpecker story because I was totally confused as to how the woodpecker wound up in Lowe’s with the girl.
The link tells, at the end, that the mother’s citation was canceled and no fine was taken.
I actually don’t have a lot of sympathy for this guy. He’s a former DNR worker, so he knew what he was doing was wrong. It takes about three seconds with google to find several raptor rehabilitation groups in Indiana. I live in Alaska, and it’s common for eagles to find themselves injured and the raptor centers do a great job in trying to get them rehabbed and back out into the wild.
I’ve been aware since I was about 18 that it was illegal to even posses a bald eagle feather that one happened to find, much less try to keep one for even altruistic reasons.