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Overlimit Loon Lake Area Outfitter Fined $57,920 08/09/04
A Loon Lake area outfitter was recently convicted of nine Wildlife Act offences for illegal white-tailed deer outfitting activities and fined a total of $57,920 at provincial court in Loon Lake.
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Radios Help Protect African Wildlife 01/30/04
For nearly 30 years the Motorola PT-300 radio was one of the main tools Saskatchewan Environment conservation officers used to help protect the province’s wildlife. The 228 radios enabled conservation officers to talk to each other or to stay in contact with a main base. They used to the radios during activities that ranged from coordinating night patrols for poachers to fighting forest fires. [Comments?]
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Poachers Fined $3,500 12/12/03
An anonymous call to the Turn In Poachers hotline on November 29th, 2002
initiated an investigation by Saskatchewan Environment conservation officers
that resulted in three hunters being charged. The charges included over
limit hunting of deer, providing false information, carrying another person's
licence and allowing someone else to use a licence. [Comments?]
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Turn in Deer Heads 11/21/03
Saskatchewan Environment is asking hunters to turn in deer heads. The samples
will be tested for Chronic Wasting Disease. Saskatchewan Environment is
especially interested in samples from the province's western areas where all
cases of Chronic Wasting Disease in wild deer have been found. [2 Comments]
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Permit Required to Import Canadian Hunter-Harvested Game Meat 08/08/03
Hunters can immediately begin bringing wild ruminant meat products intended for their personal use into the United States, but will need a “Veterinary Services Special Permit for the Importation of Hunter-Harvested Wild Ruminant Meat,” along with one of the following: a valid Canadian export certificate for game meat, or a copy of a valid hunting license or a valid hunting tag. [Comments?]
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Supporting Hunter Safety 07/11/03
Saskatchewan will pay the Saskatchewan Association for Firearm Education
(SAFE) more than $200,000 to train people to be safe and informed hunters.
This new contract, to March 2005, will allow the people of Saskatchewan to
continue to receive the lowest cost hunter education training in the country. [2 Comments]
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Mid Winter Deer Hunt 02/28/03
The discovery of chronic wasting disease in the area around Saskatchewan
Landing Provincial Park during last fall's hunting season has prompted
Saskatchewan Environment to take an unusual step. [1 Comment]
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Pheasants Head East 01/31/03
Wildlife officials from Saskatchewan Environment and Ontario's Ministry of Natural Resources are capturing wild ring-necked pheasants along the South Saskatchewan River near Leader. It is hoped that between 50 and 100 birds will be captured by the end of the week and then flown to Ontario over the weekend. [Comments?]
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Another Saskatchewan Case of CWD Found in Wild 12/16/02
Saskatchewan's hunters have turned in another deer head that has tested positive for Chronic Wasting Disease. This latest positive case was found in a mule deer doe taken this fall near Saskatchewan Landing Provincial Park. This is the third positive case found in the past couple of months and the sixth discovered since the late 1990s when the province started monitoring animals in the wild for the disease. The doe was taken in the Herd Reduction Area near Saskatchewan
Landing Provincial Park. [Comments?]
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Six Americans Fined For Over Limit Hunting 12/01/02
Six people from the state of Georgia who were hunting in the Ponteix area recently plead guilty to 13 Wildlife Act charges and were fined a total of $11,660. The six agreed to voluntarily pay the fines. [Comments?]
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