Posted on 10/26/2008 6:16:07 PM PDT by SJackson
1 day ago
PRAIRIE DU CHIEN, Wis. (AP) A former elk farm owner was found not guilty Friday of releasing wild pigs into the western Wisconsin countryside after a judge said the witness against him wasn't credible.
Robert S. Johnson, 55, was charged with one count of illegally stocking wild animals, a civil offense. State investigators had accused him of bringing 31 wild hogs from Texas to Crawford County in 2002, spawning a feral hog population that has caused thousands of dollars in crop damage.
The state Department of Justice was seeking $31,000 in forfeitures $1,000 for each pig from Johnson, as well as an unspecified amount of money to cover environmental damage.
Johnson still faces trial in November on federal charges of illegally moving elk from his Wisconsin farm to Illinois. According to court documents, Johnson lists a San Marcos, Texas, post office box as his address.
"This has been hanging over my head," Johnson said as he left the courtroom. "Now just one more thing to clear up."
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Well, if he was drunk when he confessed, then no harm, no foul. We always apply that standard, don't we. If you're drunk, nothing you say or do can be held against you.
The excuse that he came to WI to buy hay doesn't sound credible, but I'm sure someone will know if a drive that long for hay is sensible. Presumably when one is sober.
You might know the answer to my question in post 3. Is it really financially profitable to drive to Wisconsin to buy forage?
There are Prussian Boars from Texas to Tennessee to South Carolina and spreading. I doubt anyone can pinpoint the people responsible for them. I would love to meet the hombre responsible for fire ants though.
I’’m all for releasing hogs of any kind near a mosque.
I can believe that. I have a kudzu basket, made by a lady in upstate SC, that I keep dry and out of the sun. I still keep a close eye on it.
Fulbright and Johnson are two different people.
Of course, you could always try to plead the defense that you were impaired when you posted.
Last year in Tennessee: In Sumner County, just northeast of Nashville, the county commissioners voted recently to spend $100,000 to pay for transportation of hay from the Midwest. In Dickson County, another rural county near Nashville, commissioners approved spending $50,000 to help farmers. The Knox County Commission in Knoxville and the local Farm Bureau each put up $10,000 to pay for hay to be trucked in from Canada. http://74.125.45.104/search?q=cache:RPUgsI0Ab3AJ:www.knoxnews.com/news/2007/sep/23/facing-drought-tennessee-farmers-importing-hay-cul/+hay+drought+1992&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=3&gl=us&client=firefox-a
A book I read that discussed some events in the Costa Rican jungle said that wild pigs travel single file through the jungle in a long line. It said that if you are hiding up a tree and can only pick off one pig, you had better shoot the last one in the line. If you shoot one of the earlier ones, the line of pigs will stop and you will never make it down from the tree alive.
BTW this book is supposed to be non-fiction and was enormously entertaining but I wouldn't doubt that that it contained some exaggeration. IIRC it was a best seller in France.
Keep your Hogs in the dang garage next to the BSA...
Grandsons’ hogs are all locked up, but they will be moving them today or tomorrow.
As wife says, they’re going to get their ears pierced.
“Is it really financially profitable to drive to Wisconsin to buy forage?”
It’s not out of the question, no. But it is on the long side.
“Is it really financially profitable to drive to Wisconsin to buy forage?”
It’s not out of the question, no. But it is on the long side.
. Is it really financially profitable to drive to Wisconsin to buy forage?
I can’t answer specifically for this period and the ranchers prospects. But Texas has gone through some fairly severe droughts in which hay was at a premium if you could find any.
DROUGHT RETURNS TO TEXAS AGRICULTURE, RESULTING IN $316 MILLION IN LOSSES [2002]
http://newagnews.tamu.edu/dailynews/stories/DRGHT/Jun1202a.htm
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