House kills bill limiting game warden powers

[cmc]

I get some of the minor cases like failure to immediately tag your animal, but I can't buy the one about mistaken a moose for an elk being excused.

http://www.greatfallstribune.com/st...-limiting-game-warden-powers-debate/23890783/

 

[mtmander]

Never heard of 'mistaken a moose for a elk' , how could that ever happen ?????

 

[MKotur325]

I remember an old story my dad told about a hunter down the Gallatin Canyon years back who shot a Chocolate colored Mule mistaking it for a Cow Moose...

I've also watched Cormorants get shot as Geese. I would have hated to be that duck dog... I bet those cormorants smelled about as pretty as rotting squid...

 

[Ben Lamb]

The bill was pretty bad, and the brain child of the Montana Shooting Sports Association.

It would have made a warden have to get a warrant to check a fishing creel. THere's a dangerous precedent being set this session where legislators get to stand up and basically submit hearsay as "factual testimony." I like Representative Mortenson and think he's a good guy, even if we disagee at times, but I'm glad this bill died.

 

[cmc]

Is there a rash of this in Montana the rest of us in the west are not seeing?

http://www.huntthewest.com/updates2009/llama.htm