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Article: OHIO BLACK BEAR POACHERS APPREHENDED IN NICHOLAS COUNTY BY WEST VIRGINIA CONSERVATION OFFICERS
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- October 27, 2009
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CHARLESTON, W.Va., Oct. 26 -- The West Virginia Division of Natural Resources issued the following news release:
A lengthy bear poaching investigation was brought to a conclusion Oct. 22 and Oct. 25, when West Virginia Division of Natural Resources (WVDNR) conservation officers and Wildlife Resources personnel apprehended a group of eight hunters in Nicholas County for using bait to lure black bear into sites where they could be shot from elevated and camouflaged stands. It is illegal to bait black bear in West Virginia.
"This group of hunters, all of whom were residents of Ohio, had been participating in this type of illegal activity for a period of several years," said Capt. Michael Waugh ...