Poaching case snares local feds

Grand Junction Sentinel ^ | 07.12.2016 | Charles Ashby

[dware]

Four Western Slope men, including two local U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service employees, have been sentenced in the poaching of a trophy bull elk on private land on the Roan Plateau, Colorado Parks and Wildlife announced Tuesday.

State officials said Thad Bingham, 44, of Fruita, killed the elk, while Brian Scheer, 45, of Fruita, Josh Fitzsimmons, 45, of Rifle, and Barrett Rowles, 48, whose hometown wasn’t given, participated in the illegal hunt in October 2014, which the state agency took two years to investigate.

Bingham and Scheer work at the service’s Horsethief Canyon Native Fish Facility Ponds near Fruita, where some evidence in the case was found. A message left with the Fish and Wildlife Service office in Denver inquiring whether Bingham and Scheer are still employees with the agency wasn’t returned Tuesday.

[george76]

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[LambSlave]

The Feds should have no authority to restrict hunting on privately owned land.

Neither should the states. Forget hunting, in most states now, if you have poisonous serpents in your yard, or chicken hawks attacking your poultry you can be jailed for harming or even moving them. This was not true in my state as a child, but it sure is now. Likewise if a bobcat or bear are prowling around your immediate living area and attacking pets/livestock; unless you catch them in the act, too bad, so sad. Too many urban dwelling idiots who don't comprehend the effects of their idiocy on those who have to live with the consequences every day. All the arguments about "hunting to extinction" are utter nonsense. With so much state and federal lands (where they can protect animals if they want), there will always be plenty of critters, unless they are so unfit for survival they need the wildlife equivalent of affirmative action. A man should be able to do as he pleases on his own land (and yeah, I know many do, but at risk of very serious consequences).

[reed13k]

In this case i’m not sure the property owner authorized it. So if it wasn’t poaching wouldn’t it be theft?

[editor-surveyor]

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“Fringe Benefits” denied?
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[rockrr]

My comment was intended to be insultingly facetious to the current regime but your second sentence shows that you saw that ;’}

[dsc]

Schadenfreude.

[maine-iac7]

They should have claimed self defense

(BTW - how nice of the person filming to do something to chase the deer off)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNGGbozilko

[MileHi]

Samson law...