Article: MICHIGAN DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE QUARANTINES ALL MICHIGAN GAME RANCHS WITH SHOOTING SWINE

Article: Game ranch positives
Bangor Daily News Bangor, ME;  March 23, 2009 ;     141 words ......BDN, March 13) should be aware that game ranches are several hundred acres in size with...perimeter fenced (at great expense). Many game ranches actually are farming operations that...hunting on the side helps pay the bills. Game ranches employ people and pay sizeable tax bills...

Article: AGRICULTURE COMMISSION BACKS EFFORTS TO KEEP MICHIGAN PSEUDORABIES VIRUS FREE
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  June 9, 2008 ;     313 words ......Pseudorabies Virus (PRV) positive transitional swine facilities, requesting Michigan...have been known to transmit PRV to transitional swine - those raised on pasture, game ranches, backyard swine, and 4-H swine...raised swine, but 4-H families and game ranches as well. ...

Article: Colorado's canned shoot conundrum
China Daily;  February 17, 2003 ;     700+ words ......of hunting deer and elk on enclosed game ranches banned, characterizing the so-called...easily defeated, but the controversy over game ranches continues. Supporters of the bill say...Colorado voters in 2004. Most of the big game ranches focus on elk in Colorado, which has...

Article: A matter of taste: hunter ethics is more often about values than right or wrong.
Petersen's Hunting;  September 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......individual declares, Hunting on game ranches is unethical, what he or she probably...has meant is, I find hunting on game ranches distasteful. One can, of course...arguments about the downside of game ranches, and many have: Game ranches have...

Article: Big-game-ranch bills trigger spirited debate Lawmakers say hunting facilities would boost economy in hard-hit areas
Bangor Daily News Bangor, ME;  May 21, 2009 ;     559 words ......encouraging the creation of additional big-game ranches in Maine where sportsmen can hunt Russian...the hunters who come to one of these game ranches in his district stay at local hotels...the local economy. Furthermore, the game ranches help support Maine's agricultural industry...

Article: Zimbabwe wildlife in severe decline: report estimates losses on former game ranches.(Reports Afield)
Sports Afield;  November 1, 2007 ;     237 words ......had been nearly wiped out on the country's former private game ranches in the years since President Robert Mugabe began dividing...500 impala, 5,000 kudu, and 2,000 wildebeest on the former game ranches. The report acknowledges that the findings are preliminary...

Article: The Great Game-Ranching Debate.(proposition to stop game ranching in Montana's 2000 election)
Sports Afield;  April 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ......was straightforward. It would prohibit game ranches from charging fees for shooting captive...fence. It would also prohibit any new game ranches from being licensed, but allow existing game ranches to continue operating for the production...

Article: Vic; Game park hunts raise storm over killing
AAP General News (Australia);  June 28, 2001 ;     201 words ......Victorian president of Sporting Shooters Australia, says game ranches aren't new in Victoria and have been successful in the Northern...Field and Game Association chief executive ROD DREW says game ranches are also common in New Zealand, Africa, Europe and North...

Article: Feral swine issues concern regulators.(News)
Feedstuffs;  August 27, 2007 ;     700+ words ......two-thirds of all swine in Texas. * Transitional swine operations may have interactions...under high levels of biosecurity. Transitional swine live in pens or on farms where feral...swine also can be included in the transitional swine herd. USDA's third classification...

Article: Wildlife has been decimated.(News)
Sunday Tribune (South Africa);  July 15, 2007 ;     230 words ......ZCTF) has found that more than 90% of animals on private game ranches, and between 35% and 100% of wildlife in conservancies, have...remained. The average percentage of wildife lost on the private game ranches and conservancies together is estimated at 83%. No figures...

Article: Exotics are OK: ESA protections won't extend to game ranches.(Reports Afield)
Sports Afield;  February 1, 2007 ;     242 words ......United States--where they are often plentiful--enhanced the survival of these animals. Captive-bred exotic populations from game ranches in the United States and other countries have sometimes been used in the past to reintroduce members of some dwindling species...

Article: VOA NEWS: HUNGER, ECONOMIC CHAOS THREATEN ZIMBABWE'S WILDLIFE
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  June 8, 2006 ;     656 words ......going to interfere with the wildlife and the [white-owned] game ranches, but with [political] pressure [growing to expropriate white...these 240 farms, 84 were registered with National Parks as game ranches or conservancies. Today, there are about 14 left. One ranch...

Article: Game Farm Owners Sue Over New Initiative
AP Online;  November 11, 2003 ;     664 words ......are. But you can't have it both ways." I-143 banned future game ranches in Montana, prohibited current game ranchers from transferring...groups were among the chief supporters of I-143, arguing that game ranches could spread disease among Montana's wild herds of elk if...

Article: Voiceless victims face extinction in another Zimbabwe land battle
The Scotsman;  May 20, 2002 ;     700+ words ......out an estimated 60 per cent of wildlife on privately owned game ranches and conservancies. Such areas have been overrun by thousands...are two main habitats for wildlife in Zimbabwe, commercial game ranches, which earn their income from tourism and controlled hunting...