Date:         Thu, 17 Feb 2005 21:18:34 -0500
Reply-To:     Mike Ivie <mikeivie@bellsouth.net>
Sender:       Georgia Birders Online <GABO-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
From:         Mike Ivie <mikeivie@BELLSOUTH.NET>
Subject:      Re: collecting dead birds
Comments: To: RopersFive@AOL.COM
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Dan Roper said:

>... so I stopped, picked up the hawk, and put it in the back
> of my truck.  Then I began to have second thoughts, remembering that from
time
> to time it is possible to encounter unreasonable state or federal wildlife
> folks like the one who once ticketed me for illegal camping (I put a
cooler on a
> picnic table in an adjacent campsite to "hold it" for soon-to-arrive
friends -
> the US Forest Service officer who gave me the $75 ticket was not a happy
> camper).  I know most of the DNR staff at Arrowhead and they are fine
folks, but I
> had no idea how strictly they interpret that "no raptors" law, so I
stopped
> and put the hawk back in the road.


Dan,

What do you think would have happened if the USFS officer who gave you the
$75 ticket had seen you putting the hawk back on the road?

Mike Ivie
Senoia



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