The warning to hunters against eating ducks came only a week after officials in Montana issued a similar precautionary statement.
But in Montana and Idaho, where wolves were reintroduced a generation ago, they were a magnet for bitter controversy, pitting ranchers and hunters against groups dedicated to helping transplanted populations thrive.
Lawyers will recognize this as a "qui tam" procedure, of the sort that has led to a growing body of litigation filed by freelance bounty hunters against universities, defense contractors and others alleged to have overcharged the government.
Battles are grueling affairs pitting tiny hunters against fast, feral beasts.
The NRA's Dana Loesch promptly slammed the article on her NRA TV show, claiming the "anti-gun left" was "trying to turn hunters against the NRA".
The issue has long pitted environmentalists, tour guides, members of First Nations, and even other hunters against trophy hunters and their guides, who in turn feel they are being attacked for simply trying to make a living.
DRACULA (NBC, Oct. 25) A co-production with the British channel Sky Living, this series posits a Dracula (Jonathan Rhys Meyers of "The Tudors") who poses as an American businessman in Victorian London and allies himself with the vampire hunter Van Helsing Thomas Kretschmannn) against a shadowy conspiracy of one-percenters.
The most memorable were the all-star "Little Women" (1949) -- in which June Allyson played the tomboyish heroine, Jo, Elizabeth Taylor played the selfish Amy; and Ms. Leigh was the nurturing, practical Meg -- and Anthony Mann's rough western "The Naked Spur" (1953), which pit the bounty hunter James Stewart against Robert Ryan, with a crop-haired Janet Leigh in the middle.
'Lead shot is poison for hunters' Jump to media player Why one Danish hunter campaigns against the use of lead ammunition.
