Post by 36fan on Jul 19, 2010 12:45:42 GMT -5
Maybe not "deer Hunting" in you typical sense, but since elk are in the deer family...
I took the family Cataloochee Valley to the GSMNP at the end of May, and the elk volunteers down there told us that an elk had been poached in the park the previous fall (they had the antlers with them). According to the volunteers, the guy insisted he didn't know he was inside a national park (I say BS - there are only two ways into Cataloochee and both have signs, and consists of 45 min to an hour drive down a windy 1.5 lane gravel/dirt road).
Anyway, I've been trying to find out more info about the incident, and here was the verdict:
www.nationalparkstraveler.com/2010/07/man-who-poached-elk-great-smoky-mountains-national-park-receives-jail-time-heavy-fine6246
"U.S. Magistrate Judge Dennis L. Howell last Thursday sentenced Mr. Cromer to 150 days imprisonment. In addition, the man’s firearm, a Browning .270 caliber rifle autographed by Richard Petty, was ordered by the court to be forfeited to the government and he was ordered to pay $8,384 in restitution to the park.
Furthermore, Mr. Cromer had to surrender his hunting license for two years, and he was banned from all national parks for two years."
more info about the poaching incident:
www.heraldsun.com/pages/full_story/push?article-Park+officials+track+suspected+elk+poacher+to+N-C-%20&id=4681127-Park+officials+track+suspected+elk+poacher+to+N-C-&instance=main_article
skinnymoose.com/moosedroppings/2009/11/17/bull-elk-21-poached-inside-great-smokey-mountain-national-park/
I took the family Cataloochee Valley to the GSMNP at the end of May, and the elk volunteers down there told us that an elk had been poached in the park the previous fall (they had the antlers with them). According to the volunteers, the guy insisted he didn't know he was inside a national park (I say BS - there are only two ways into Cataloochee and both have signs, and consists of 45 min to an hour drive down a windy 1.5 lane gravel/dirt road).
Anyway, I've been trying to find out more info about the incident, and here was the verdict:
www.nationalparkstraveler.com/2010/07/man-who-poached-elk-great-smoky-mountains-national-park-receives-jail-time-heavy-fine6246
"U.S. Magistrate Judge Dennis L. Howell last Thursday sentenced Mr. Cromer to 150 days imprisonment. In addition, the man’s firearm, a Browning .270 caliber rifle autographed by Richard Petty, was ordered by the court to be forfeited to the government and he was ordered to pay $8,384 in restitution to the park.
Furthermore, Mr. Cromer had to surrender his hunting license for two years, and he was banned from all national parks for two years."
more info about the poaching incident:
www.heraldsun.com/pages/full_story/push?article-Park+officials+track+suspected+elk+poacher+to+N-C-%20&id=4681127-Park+officials+track+suspected+elk+poacher+to+N-C-&instance=main_article
skinnymoose.com/moosedroppings/2009/11/17/bull-elk-21-poached-inside-great-smokey-mountain-national-park/
