Clyde River Fish Passage Enters Fifth Season

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Irasburg hunting park expected to close by March
If all goes according to plan, by this time next year the only thing being harvested at a controversial captive-hunting facility in Irasburg will hopefully be corn.

Sept. 8, the Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department issued a permit to the facility's owner to remove the native deer trapped behind its fences through hunting, in accordance with Act 54, which was passed by the General Assembly and signed into law in May. It established that wildlife in Vermont is a public-trust resource and mandated that the whitetail deer and moose in the facility be "reduced to zero" by Sept. 1, 2014.

According to Fish and Wildlife commissioner Patrick Berry, the time frame was moved up to March 1, 2012, at the request of the owner, Doug Nelson of Derby. more...

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