AR-News: (US MT) All should support crackdown on poachers

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EDITORIALS 
For those who care about hunting and wildlife, the recent trend in poaching 
is enough to make your blood boil. 
Whether for the trophy or the blood money it generates, an increasing number 
of people are willing to skirt the law. 
Consider some of the latest cases: 
A Cut Bank man was charged last week with one felony and 16 hunting and 
fishing-related misdemeanors. 
He'd already had his hunting and fishing licenses suspended for 20 years 
after he illegally shot a trophy elk then had the gall -- or idiocy -- to pose 
with it for his local paper. 
A Stevensville man was convicted on a host of charges relating to his 
"business" of providing illegal Montana hunting licenses and outfitting services to 
out-of-state poachers. 
A Seeley Lake man is sitting out four months in jail for arranging illegal 
hunts for a Pennsylvania man. Prosecutors described him as wanting to kill 
"anything that walked" if there was money involved. 
A Wibaux man is accused of selling his daughter's deer license to an 
out-of-state hunter for $3,000. 
"It all comes down to money," said Assistant Attorney General Bar Harris, who 
often prosecutes these cases. "People who live in this state all the time 
know where the wildlife is and where people are. If they so choose, they can show 
out-of-staters where (game animals) are and how to take them illegally." 



full story:

http://www.greatfallstribune.com/news/stories/20040405/opinion/173031.html 
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