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The U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals denied claims by several environmental groups and ruled in favor of a habitat management project in southwestern Montana. The Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation and several other partners filed an amicus brief in support of the U.S. Forest Service and several other federal agencies.

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Two Fleming County, Ky. brothers facing hundreds of illegal hunting charges entered guilty pleas and agreed to pay more than $20,000 in fines, restitution and court costs, serve time in home incarceration and lose their hunting privileges for three years.
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Unlike its decision earlier in 2017 upholding efforts to delist wolves in Wyoming, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia chose not to do the same in the Western Great Lakes states. However, the court wholeheartedly rejected a number of claims by environmental groups regarding wolves and wolf management.
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Twenty-five individuals, including 20 juveniles, were recently convicted of 161 hunting-related charges in the Muskingum County Court and the Muskingum County Common Pleas Court Juvenile Division, according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR).
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Conservation Force, the Garden State Taxidermist Association, a New Jersey taxidermist, and five New Jersey based hunters have been successful in their suit to end New Jersey's ban on the import, possession, export, transport, and processing of hunting trophies of the African "Big Four" (elephant, leopard, lion, and rhinoceros).
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Benjamin N. Chason, 61, of Climax, Ga. pleaded guilty and was sentenced in U.S. District Court for three charges related to violating the Lacey Act. and was ordered to pay $1.6 million in fines and restitution -- the largest amount ordered of an individual to pay for a wildlife crime in U.S. history.
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Convicted poacher and former outfitter Dennis Eugene Rodebaugh, 73, of Meeker, Colo., learned on Tuesday that his appeal to the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals has failed, affirming the 41-month prison sentence and fines the former outfitter received in early 2013 for illegally baiting deer and elk with salt.
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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service reports that Donald W. Wainwright, Sr., 49, of Live Oak, Fla., was sentenced August 3 in U.S. District Court to 21 months in prison and a $125,000 fine for 12 charges related to violating the Lacey Act, one count of conspiracy and one count of wire fraud for illegally transporting whitetail across state lines.
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