Posted on 01/14/2009 5:26:56 PM PST by SJackson
Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources
Authorities are searching for a snowmobiler who ran over and killed 57 mallard ducks Tuesday.
Authorities are searching for a snowmobiler who ran over and killed 57 mallard ducks Tuesday.
Close Authorities are searching for a snowmobiler who ran over and killed 57 mallard ducks Tuesday on a river in Fond du Lac, according to the state Department of Natural Resources.
The ducks were found in an area of open water and on the ice of the Fond du Lac River near Lake Winnebago, said George Protogere, a DNR warden supervisor.
The snowmobiler apparently skipped over the open water, turned around and skipped over the water again, Protogere said.
The fact that the snowmobiler appears to have intentionally run over the ducks is disturbing, Protogere said.
"You think about wildlife and the journey that they have when they migrate and the ones that stick around with these harsh temperatures, and then all of the sudden they get killed by a senseless act," he said. "It just does not make any sense."
The ducks - 37 drake mallards and 20 mallard hens - were killed sometime between about 9 a.m. and 2 p.m. Tuesday, Protogere said.
The duck slaughter comes less than a week after snowmobilers ran down and killed four deer and fatally injured a fifth Friday night in Waupaca County. No arrests have been made in connection with that case, authorities said.
See my post #41
Just another myth. Humans routinely killed far more than they could eat. The reason that they or other predators did not kill more was that it was a lot of hard work.
This is true. Indians used to run Buffalo over cliffs and take what they could carry, eat the livers and other choice parts and leave the bulk of the animals lying there. This was proven out in several sites where the bones were found many layers deep. One of there favorite methods was to set the prairie on fire and stampede the buffs that way. This was before the horse. After the horse they would ride down and kill as many as they could with arrows at close range. The myth of the native being in tune with nature and conserving animals is pure BS.
Goodness gracious.
Coyotes, prarie dogs, rock chucks, opossums and armadillos are pests. Blast em.
No argument from here.
None taken. But it's not rage. It's ethics -- in application when appropriate.
“The snowmobiler skipped over open water?
That’s news to me. I’ve never heard of a snowmobile being able to ride across water. How in the world do you pull that off?”
Good balance and a wide open throttle is the only way.
(There are events in the winter, too.)
That event hasn't been held for several years, due to competition from a nearby, unofficial, unsponsored (and occasionally fatal) event, and rising liability insurance costs. The Grantsburg World Championship Watercross (see my previous post) is still held in summer.
I had no idea you could do that with a snow mobile. Now it seems that mowing down 57 ducks with a snow mobile is not so difficult.... If you have the guts to go water skipping over ice cold water
Agreed. This is the same as the story about the snowmobiles running over 5 deer. These animals just don’t sit there and let themselves be ran over.
That picture only shows a couple of snowmobile tracks. And it looks like there are 4 or 5 ducks in those tracks. There are no tracks where the other dead ducks are at. The uproar here on FR when it comes to animals sounds like a bunch of knee jerk liberals.
That was my first thought. How does this happen?
I saw a program once where ducks were on a pond and it froze trapping them in the ice
The deer and the ducks being killed by snowmobiles—I question both these stories.
I can see it being easy to run over the deer, if the snow was deep and they got spooked into going off the packed down trails.
You could catch them walking on snowshoes in deep snow.
I have personally rode right up by them in northern Michigan in deep snow.
In the deep snow, once they get spooked off the packed trails or their yarding area, they are doomed to anything that wanted to catch them if it can stay on top of the snow.
Anyone that has ever tried to walk in 3 feet of snow would understand how easy it could be to run over those deer.
I had never thought of deep snow. That definitely brings up another scenario. I live southern Indiana and deep snow if very uncommon. We had 2 feet of snow but that was 4 or 5 years ago.
In some parts of Mi and Wi 3’-4’ of snow or even more is common.
Try running in waist deep water or knee deep mud, you’ll get the concept real quick...lol
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