...this'll make Jose's day

[noharleyyet]

Guess we better watch what we post...big brother is reading. Let's hear it Idaho'rs...is he guilty?

Anti-Wolf Activist Accused of Poaching
October 7, 2010.

Tony Mayer, founder of an Idaho-based anti-wolf internet site, has been charged with a felony for allegedly killing a trophy bull elk out of season last year in the Alturas Lake area of northern Blaine County.

Mayer, 59, is charged in a criminal complaint filed in Blaine County 5th District Court in September with "flagrant unlawful killing and possession of a trophy bull elk." He is also charged with the misdemeanor crimes of hunting without an elk tag, hunting without an archery permit and unlawful possession of protected wildlife.

Maye's attorney, John Lothspeich, stated: "We're prepared to bring every possible legal defense on behalf of our client," Lothspeich said. "He is a lifelong dedicated hunter and fisherman and we deny any wrongdoing on the part of our client."

The criminal complaint against Mayer was filed following an investigation by the Idaho Department of Fish and Game.

The investigation began after an Idaho Conservation Officer observed that Mayer's posts on Bowsite.com suggested that the animal had been killed out of season.

Specifically, a probable-cause affidavit filed by Fish and Game Conservation Officer Merritt Horsmon accuses Mayer of illegally killing a "6X6 bull elk" several days after the bow hunting season was closed in Unit 36 on Sept. 30, 2009. Horsmon alleges that the animal, of trophy status, was killed instead by Mayer on Oct. 3 and that Mayer did not have an elk tag at the time or a valid archery permit.

Mayer is the founder of the anti-wolf web site SaveElk.com, which attempts to shock people in to anti-wolf reactions using images of questionable origin which supposedly portray animals killed by wolves.

Mayer's website challenges visitors: "If you can actually go through this site and claim we are just a bunch of country bumpkins or hunters who merely want to keep the Elk and Deer around for our hunting pleasure, then we truly feel sorry for you..."

It remains to be seen whether his rhetoric will be less self-righteous if convicting of felony poaching.

 

[fowladdict]

There is a bad apple in every bushel...if he is guilty he is guilty...nuff said.

 

[JoseCuervo]

I had to suffer thru a long discussion yesterday with some anti-wolf nuts who were claiming that there were 3 packs of 20 viscious killing machines in one drainage, and that one of the Welfare Ranchers up there had lost TWO cows (1600lbs each) to the wolves...

But, back to the story at hand..... Most of the anti-wolf nuts are poachers, either caught, or about to be caught.

A probable-cause affidavit filed by Fish and Game Conservation Officer Merritt Horsmon accuses Mayer of illegally killing a "6X6 bull elk" in the Alturas Lake Creek drainage area several days after the bow hunting season was closed in Unit 36 on Sept. 30, 2009. Horsmon alleges that the animal, of trophy status, was killed instead by Mayer on Oct. 3 and that Mayer did not have an elk tag at the time or a valid archery permit.

Horsmon wrote that he started the investigation after being told by other Fish and Game employees that Mayer had posted a story with photographs about the killing of the animal on the "Bowsite" website on Oct. 5, 2009. Details of the story, Horsmon wrote, indicated that the animal had been killed when the season was closed.

Horsmon wrote that Mayer posted the same story on the "Sportsman's Warehouse Bragg'n Board" on Oct. 7, 2009. He further wrote that Mayer entered the animal's antlers in the Twin Falls Sportsman's Warehouse 2009 Bucks and Bulls contest.

Evidence was also gathered after a search warrant was served on Mayer's home in Twin Falls on Nov. 11, 2009.

Horsmon wrote that Mayer told him in an interview on Oct. 8, 2009, that "he had first shot and wounded the elk using archery equipment on Sept. 30, 2009, and again shot and killed the elk using archery equipment on Oct. 1, 2009."

Horsmon alleged that Mayer didn't purchase an elk tag until Oct. 4, 2009, and that when he reported the elk harvest he claimed to have killed the animal on that day.

Speaking through his attorney, Mayer declined to comment on the charges to the Idaho Mountain Express.

The felony crime of unlawful killing or possession of a trophy bull elk is punishable under Idaho code by up to five years in prison and a $50,000 fine. The misdemeanor crimes Mayer is charged with are punishable by fines of up to $1,000 and six months in jail. Fish and Game violations in Idaho can also result in loss of hunting and fishing privileges

 

[Sytes]

Media "wolves are cuddly vegi loving pets" activists will seek to chop the apple tree down over one bad apple...
For a guy presenting a self imposed spot light on himself with the web site he hosts, as described in NHY's post - one would think he would dot his i's and cross his t's. If all is as is reported - seems a bad apple worth picking...

 

[2pointslayr]

i agree with sytes