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The book is self-published through Pleasant Word P. Box , Enumclaw, WA ; www. The book is self-published through WordClay; www. Love to Share , by Karen Phillips human development '76, Ph. The book is self-published through iUniverse Liberty Dr. Bloodreal , by "Crazy" Carl Robinson M. English '94 , is a collection of short stories that recounts outrageous antics from the narrator's youth in a stream-of-consciousness style. Quail Plantation Stories , by Thomas Word business administration '59 , draws a portrait of Deep South quail plantations where, for a century and a quarter, the very rich have relished hunting and fishing.

The book is self-published through BookSurge; www. After the Russian Revolution , the newly formed Soviet government worked heavily to eradicate wolves and other predators during an extensive land reclamation program. With the end of the war and the onset of aerial hunting, the USSR destroyed 42, wolves in , 62, wolves in , 58, wolves in , 57, in , and 55, in From to , an average of 50, wolves were killed annually.

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During this time, wolf depredations on humans and livestock had dropped by a factor of ten. However, with the publishing of a Russian translation of Farley Mowatt 's fictional book Never Cry Wolf , wolf hunts decreased in popularity. Amid public outcry, Czarist and Soviet records of wolf attacks on both livestock and people were ignored and wolf hunts decreased in number, allowing wolves to multiply.

With an increase in population, twice as many wolves were culled in the s than in the prior decade. With the dissolution of the Soviet Union , many wolf bounties were lowered or dropped altogether.

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In India, Hindus traditionally considered the hunting of wolves, even dangerous ones as taboo , for fear of causing a bad harvest. The Santals , however, considered them fair game, as with every other forest dwelling animal. Female cubs were bountied for 12 Indian annas , while males for 8.

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Higher rewards of 5 rupees for each adult and one for each cub were favored in Jaunpur. In Gorakhpur , where human fatalities were highest in summer, the reward for an adult wolf was 4 rupees, with 3 for a cub. Acts of fraud were quite common, with some bounty hunters presenting golden jackals or simply exhuming the bodies of bountied wolves and presenting them to unsuspecting magistrates for rewards. Overall, it is thought that up to , wolves were killed in British India between and Before the onset of the Meiji restoration period in , wolves had a benign rather than noxious place in Japanese culture and folklore.

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Wolves were, however, occasionally hunted. Domain lords would pay mon for males, and for females, though peasants received much less. The wolf was deemed a threat to ranching which the Meiji government promoted at the time, and targeted via a bounty system and a direct chemical extermination campaign inspired by the similar contemporary American campaign. In in Sapporo , it was decided to set higher bounties for wolves than bears in order to further motivate the ethnic Ainu people into killing wolves, which were once considered sacred to them.

The carcass was bought by a man working for the Duke of Bedford, and was subsequently put on display in the British Museum of Natural History. Anyone who killed a wolf and presented a pair of ears as proof was rewarded with a sheep and some felt. Each May, the government commanded the populace to scour the countryside for wolf lairs in an effort to exterminate wolf pups. When the inhabitants of a district believed it had destroyed its last wolf, the local government would proclaim a public holiday.

Records show that up to 5, wolves were taken annually in the early s. In the Kazakh SSR , some 1, professional hunters killed thousands of the wolves yearly to collect government bounties. In , just before the Soviet economy collapsed, the hunters killed 16, wolves. In the majority of Native American hunter-gatherer societies, wolves were usually killed for body parts used in rituals, or to stop them raiding food caches, [34] though some tribes would raid wolf dens to kill pups when wolf populations became too large for the Natives to live with.

This also served as a method of acquiring food, as wolf pups were considered a delicacy. Native Americans were aware of the dangers of habituated wolves, and would quickly dispatch wolves following them too closely. However, they would kill wolves with impunity if they knew the proper rites of atonement, and if the wolves themselves happened to raid their fish nets. The Ahtna would take the dead wolf to a hut, where it would be propped in a sitting position with a banquet made by a shaman set before it. When men from certain Eskimo tribes killed a wolf, they would walk around their houses four times, expressing regret and abstaining from sexual relations with their wives for four days.

After the European colonization of the Americas , the first American wolf bounty was passed by the Massachusetts Bay Colony on November 9, Further wolf bounties opened in Jamestown, Virginia on September 4, and in other colonies. Payments to white settlers included cash, tobacco, wine and corn, while Native Americans were given blankets and trinkets. A New Jersey law started in stated that any Christian who brought a wolf carcass to a magistrate would have been paid 20 shillings , while a Native American or black would have been paid half that much.

It later became customary for Native Americans to provide two wolf pelts a year without payment. In , a Virginia law abolished the requirement of tribute in wolves to be paid in accordance to the number of hunters in each tribe, demanding hunters to kill wolves a year. In , a "War of Extermination" against wolves and bears was declared in Ohio. Iowa began its own wolf bounty in , with Wisconsin and Colorado following suit in and Wolf pelts soon began to increase in demand as beavers began to become scarce from over-trapping.

It is estimated that by the s, this method was killing , wolves annually. The first Canadian wolf bounty was offered in in Ontario and Quebec. Wolves became rare in Eastern Canada by the s, becoming extinct in New Brunswick by , in Nova Scotia by and had disappeared from Newfoundland by Full-scale eradication programs did not peak in western and northern Canada until the s, when resource development brought more people into originally sparsely populated wilderness. Up to 17, wolves were poisoned in Canada between and In the mids, wolf bounties were dropped in the western provinces in favor of hiring provincial hunters.

Quebec's wolf bounties ended in and Ontario in Overall, 20, wolves were bountied between and in British Columbia, 12, between and in Alberta and 33, between and in Ontario. Unlike European wolf hunts which were usually reserved for the nobility , North American wolf hunts were partaken by ordinary citizens, nearly all of them possessing firearms, thus the extermination of wolves in the lower 48 states was carried out in far less time than in Europe.

In Norway, in , the Norwegian Government authorized a controversial wolf cull on the grounds that the animals were overpopulating and were responsible for the killing of more than sheep in The Norwegian authorities, whose original plans to kill 20 wolves were scaled down amid public outcry. However, sheep farmers generally welcome wolf hunting, as the wolves are a great threat to sheep and dogs. As of , there were an estimated wolves in the Scandinavian population, with the large majority located in Sweden. Wolf hunting is controversial in Sweden, where decisions by public authorities to authorize hunting seasons each year since have resulted in legal challenges by the European Commission and by NGOs.

In Spain, wolves are hunted north of the Duero river under strict conditions to control damage over livestock, but are strictly protected at the South margin. The European Union has exceptionally permitted Estonia, which has the highest wolf density in the EU, to continue wolf hunting as long as the overall numbers remain stable. In , wolves were permitted to be culled, but only were actually caught.

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Under the Berne Convention wolves in France are listed as an endangered species, and killing them is illegal, though official culls are permitted to protect farm animals as long as there is no threat to the species in its entirety. Though wolf populations have increased in Ukraine, wolves remain unprotected there and can be hunted year-round by permit-holders. Bulgaria considers the wolf a pest animal and there is a bounty equivalent to two weeks average wages on their heads.

With the exception of specimens in nature reserves, wolves in Belarus are largely unprotected.

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In Russia, government-backed wolf exterminations have been largely discontinued since the fall of the Soviet Union. As a result, their numbers have stabilized and are increasing, though they are still hunted legally. His department currently licenses a national bag limit of up to 14, wolves annually, with permits given to hunt even within nature reserves. The government licensed a fluorine - acetate - barium compound and distributed it through hunting associations.

Since the fall of the Soviet Union, wolf hunting in Kazakhstan has decreased in profit. Wolf hunting has become a fashionable pastime for Mongolia's new capitalist rich, particularly around Ulaanbaatar. It is currently illegal to shoot animals from helicopters or jeeps, though many rich hunters do not pay attention to this, including the lawmakers. For Mongolian nomads, hunting wolves is more than a rich man's hobby because of evocations to the wolf's role in their mythology. Most post-Soviet Mongols have reverted to the traditional belief that to kill a wolf in January, or even to see one, brings good fortune for the whole year.

In , the government of the People's Republic of China began plans to auction licenses for foreigners to hunt wild animals, including wolves which are the only carnivores on the list of animals that can be hunted. In Alaska , it is illegal to shoot a wolf with a rim-fire rifle because wolves are classified as big game. In state biologists' goal was to have volunteer hunters kill to wolves by the time the predator-control season ended April 30, but high fuel prices and poor flying conditions kept hunters from meeting that goal. A closely controlled permit system is used in allowing aerial or airborne methods to remove wolves in designated areas.

Wolf numbers are temporarily reduced in these areas, but are not permanently eliminated from any area. Many scientists believe that this artificial inflation of game populations is actually detrimental to both caribou and moose populations as well as the ecosystem as a whole; artificially boosted populations "could result in habitat destruction by moose and caribou, and ultimately, a crash in these populations". This legislation has already received official support from nine former members of Alaska's Board of Game and Wildlife and conservation groups, including Defenders of Wildlife.

According to Miller, "The state of Alaska has been operating an airborne hunting program that has blatantly ignored federal law, ignored Alaskans' opposition, ignored the science, and ignored even their own wildlife experts. It's time to ground this air assault on wolves. The PAW Act is urgently needed to close the loophole in federal law and protect our nation's wildlife from the unethical and unsportsmanlike practice of airborne hunting.

The bill would clarify under which conditions it is acceptable to use aircraft to aid in the management of wildlife. It would bar states from using aerial hunting to artificially boost game species when they are not at risk and to clarify the prohibition of harassing animals from planes which is part of the "land and shoot" hunting that is being utilized in Alaska. The PAW Act acknowledges the right of states to manage wildlife by clearly stating that wildlife agencies may use planes to respond to legitimate biological emergencies in wildlife populations.

It also states that aircraft may be used for animal control where land, livestock, water, pets, crops, or human health are at risk. Canada's total wolf population is about 30, Ontario ceased its wolf bounty system in , though retaining a year-round open season for wolves. After the gray wolf was removed from the endangered species list for the western great lakes region in January , the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources instituted a hunting season to manage the population.

The grey wolf Canis lupus is the largest member of the canidae. Though once abundant over much of North America and Eurasia , the grey wolf inhabits a very small portion of its former range because of widespread destruction of its habitat; in some regions it is endangered or threatened. Considered as a whole, however, the grey wolf is regarded as of least concern for extinction according to the International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources. Wolf weight and size can vary greatly worldwide, tending to increase proportionally with latitude as predicted by Bergmann's Rule.

Wolves are usually hunted in heavy brush and are considered especially challenging to hunt, because of their elusive nature and sharp senses. However, wolves generally do not defend themselves as effectively as cougars or bears. A shot wolf must be approached with caution, as some wolves will play possum. John James Audubon wrote that young wolves typically show little resistance to being caught, whereas older, more experienced wolves will fight savagely. Wolves are commonly hunted for their fur. The color of a wolf's fur can vary, from the pure white of the largest, Alaskan wolves, through the range of reddish brown.

Even the so-called "grey wolves" can include pure black pups in a litter, although grey is the most common color. Wolves have two kinds of hairs; an outer coat of long, stiff hairs called " guard hairs " and an " undercoat " of soft fur which grows thick in the winter and helps to insulate their bodies from the cold; this fur has the advantage of not freezing.

Pelts were usually made into cloaks or mittens, though not without hesitation, because of the wolf's strong odor. Sacred articles were wrapped in wolf skin and some tribes also wove wolf and American bison hair together in small blankets. Native American hunters used wolf pelts as disguises to allow them stalk close bison herds. The bison were accustomed to having wolves walk among them and did not fear wolves unless they were vulnerable because of disease, injury, or if guarding young. Wolf pelts were also valuable as clothing, objects for trade and for ruffs or coats.

They were also used in ritual dances and worn by some shamans , or medicine men. Females typically have smoother coats than males. Recent statistics from CITES indicate that 6,, wolf skins are internationally traded each year, with Canada, the former Soviet Union, Mongolia and China being the largest exporters, and the United States and Great Britain being the largest importers. The production of wolf pelts is still an important source of income for Arctic communities in Alaska and Canada.

While not in the same class as high grade furbearers like beaver , otter or mink , the gray wolf's fur is nonetheless thick and durable, [71] and is primarily used for scarfs and the trimmings of women's garments, though it is occasionally used for jackets , short capes , coats , [72] mukluks and rugs. These characteristics are mostly found in northern wolf populations, but gradually lessen further south in warmer climates.

North American wolf pelts are among the most valuable, as they are silkier and fluffier than Eurasian peltries. Statistics from CITES indicate that 6,—7, wolf skins are internationally traded each year, with Canada, the former Soviet Union, Mongolia and China being the largest exporters, and the United States and Great Britain being the largest importers. Overall, the harvesting of wolves for their fur has little impact on their population, as only the northern varieties whose numbers are stable are of commercial value.

In Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome , wolf flesh was a main ingredient in unguents used to ward off evil. When applied in the form of a powder, the wolf unguent would be used to cure epilepsy , plague and gout. Most of the successful shooting plantation properties are located north of Tallahassee, Florida and into southwest Georgia near the towns of Thomasville and Albany. It was in this area that elaborate mansions were built on properties ranging from 1, acres to more than 20, acres.

Hunting took place over courses or trails cut through the beautiful tall pines and mature hardwood forest in the area. Food plots and fields provided nutrition for the birds as well as cover to protect them from natural predators.

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The quail were located using pointing dogs such as English pointers , English setters and German shorthair pointers. The guides rode horses in order to keep up with the wide-ranging pointing dogs, and would raise their caps to signal a point to the wagon driver. Once the birds were pointed, proper etiquette required two hunters get on the ground. The hunters would flank the guide on the left and right as they walked in behind the dogs on point. If successful with the first shot, the hunter could try to get to a second bird before the covey gets out of range. Most shooting plantations require a two shot side by side or over and under shotgun, usually 20 gauge or smaller when hunting quail.

As you can see, a quail hunt back in the day was very structured with rules of safety and decorum that were not to be compromised. Many of the large shooting plantations still exist today under very private ownership, so most of the quail hunting in the South these days is done at hunting preserves spread across the landscape. A few locations still offer the mule and wagon experience, but most find that not cost-effective, so motorized vehicles like specially outfitted Jeeps are used to transport the hunting party.

Located just south of Savannah, Georgia near the town of Midway, Dorchester Shooting Preserve is a beautiful 5,acre property that features lodging, hunting, sporting clays and more. Half-day and full-day hunts are available and there are seven lodges on the property with accommodations for up to 30 hunters.

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The plantation also features delicious Southern cooking as a part of each hunting experience. This magnificent property features more than 2, acres of high ground and 4, acres of tidal marsh. The quail hunts at Red Bluff Plantation are offered with a mule-drawn wagon to transport the hunting party through the breathtaking South Carolina Lowcountry setting. Meals and lodging in the on-site plantation mansion are available by request. This remarkable property features lodging for up to 32 guests, and the quail courses can handle a maximum of 28 hunters simultaneously.

The 8,square-foot lodge can accommodate up to guests for larger parties, but can handle hunting groups of just about any size. One of the original Orvis-endorsed shooting lodges in the South, Wynfield Plantation was awarded the Orvis Wingshooting Lodge of the Year , which was followed by being named one of the Top 20 Wingshooting Destinations in the World in