I’ve been a conservation writer and reporter for almost 15 years, and there’s one thing I know for sure: you better have a sense of humor if you are going to stay in this game. "Oh no!" I thought, when I first read the accounts of The River of Blood, a lsoknown as Cedar Creek, a tributary of the Trinity River--a big creek, filled with blood, flowing into a major, already much-abused river that is the source of drinking water for around 10 million Texans. read more.......... 
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Last month, the RCMP and Statistics Canada were forced to admit that they don't keep statistics relating to the number of violent gun crimes in Canada that are committed by licenced gun owners using registered guns.
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"British Columbia Special Mountain Sheep Permit just sold at the 2012 Wild Sheep
Foundation Saturday Night Auction for $240,000"   

~ A hunting gun well beyond half a million dollars? You bet. Of course, it is not almost anyone's cup of tea to have one but it is definatelly worth seing: a golden safari rifle with a solid elephant ivory stock, engraved complete with a
diamond studed sight! Hand Built Custom Blaser R93 Holland & Holland .375. Ivory hand engraved Stock with Cites Permits. Elephant Leather Gun Case with Cites Permits. Diamond (vvsi) sight. 24 Carat Gold engraving. Exact price: Five Hundred and Twenty Thousand Euros, thats about 675 000 US dollars for Americans!

Everything in Alaska is colder, harder and tougher, and that includes the
elderly. Eighty-five-year-old Dorothea Taylor saved her husband, George Murphy, from imminent death by moose stomping on Sunday, by batting an attacking Bullwinkle repeatedly with a shovel.  Thanks to this tough gal, George survived the moose attack, and is now recovering from a six-inch gash in his head, gashes in his left leg, and seven
broken ribs, according to the Anchorage Daily News.
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The Canadian Prime Minister's Office tried to cut funding of a
registered intervenor in the Enbridge Pipeline Review, calling ForestEthics Canada an, "Enemy of the Government of Canada" and an, "Enemy of the People of   Canada", according to allegations detailed in a sworn affidavit, dated January 23, 2012.

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