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Mark Bonokoski - January 23 2010 |
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January 23, 2010 |
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The moose hunt is has been over long enough for the courts to finally catch up with the poachers – which means small-town newspapers in the hunting districts north of the 905 are finally getting to hear about the poachers in their midst.
And they are not always local.
In fact, most often they're not.
Up in my neck of the woods — which is the Bancroft area — five men were recently fined a total of $5,000 and had their hunting privileges yanked for a year for trying to con the MNR that they had killed only one bull moose, when they had actually killed two bull moose and a cow.
All were in cahoots with the coverup, and therefore all were caught in their own web.
The men were from Eastern Ontario, from towns not far from where I grew up.
So I might as well name them.
There was Edward Dowd of Mallorytown, Stephen Dowd of Gananoque, Richard Huck of Rockport, Michael Truesdell of Gananoque, and John Peter of Gananoque.
I hope they are all proud of themselves, and appreciative of their names being read out on prime-time Saturday morning radio, and then seeing them posted on my Outdoor Journal blog.
Their camp, the Bear Shanty Hunt Camp, by the way , is not new to the MNR.
Back in June, camp members pleaded guilty to 35 offences and were fined a total of $30,000
If anyone gives hunters a bad name, they do. |
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Toronto Sun
Moose Country |
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