Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 00:11:45 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: rick Subject: A New Record for Maryland? Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" This message is from the fws-news listserver. Please DO NOT REPLY (it just confuses the computers). Subscribers can't reply or send their own messages to the fws-news listserver. This listserver is designed mainly as a "one way street" for the rapid dissemination of information concerning the Service and its activities, rather than for gathering feedback. To contact us, see the explanatory note at bottom of the message. ==============================================================For immediate release For further information contact May 10, 2000 Mike Weaver 410-228-7991 Diana Weaver 413-253-8329 Illegal Hunter Convicted 12th Time For the 12th time in 10 years, Timothy James Tull, 31, of Crisfield, Md., has been convicted of a hunting-related offense, according to Mike Weaver of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in Cambridge. The guilty verdict, this time for illegal waterfowl hunting, was handed down May 2 after a two-day trial in U.S. District Court in Baltimore. Tull has 11 prior convictions since 1990 ranging from other waterfowl offenses to boating and crabbing illegally, taking deer out of season, shooting from a vehicle, and trespassing for the purpose of hunting. Tull faces a maximum penalty of $15,000, six months in prison, and revocation of hunting privileges for up to five years. The sentencing wi= ll be in September, Weaver said. In the current offense, Tull was charged with a Migratory Bird Treaty Act violation on March 27, 1999, when he had in his possession freshly killed waterfowl, including a hooded merganser, a black duck and parts of two mo= re black ducks, according to Weaver. The Maryland waterfowl season had clos= ed two months earlier. The case was investigated by Maryland Natural Resources Police and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service law enforcement agents. It was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael Cunningham. U.S. Magistrate Daniel E. Klein was the presiding judge. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is the principal federal agency responsible for conserving, protecting and enhancing fish, wildlife and plants and their habitats for the continuing benefit of the American people. The Service manages the 93-million-acre National Wildlife Refuge System, which encompasses more than 520 national wildlife refuges, thousands of small wetlands and other special management areas. It also operates 66 national fish hatcheries, 64 fish and wildlife management assistance offices, 64 fishery resource offices and 78 ecological service= s field stations. The agency enforces federal wildlife laws, administers th= e Endangered Species Act, manages migratory bird populations, restores nationally significant fisheries, conserves and restores wildlife habitat such as wetlands, and helps foreign governments with their conservation efforts. It also oversees the Federal Aid program that distributes hundre= ds of millions of dollars in excise taxes on fishing and hunting equipment t= o state fish and wildlife agencies. -FWS- ============================================================== News releases are also available on the World Wide Web at http://news.fws.gov Questions concerning a particular news release or item of information should be directed to the person listed as the contact. General comments or observations concerning the content of the information should be directed to Mitch Snow (Mitch_Snow@fws.gov) in the Office of Public Affairs. ============================================================== To unsubscribe from the fws-news listserver, send e-mail to listserv@www.fws.gov with "unsubscribe fws-news [your name]" in the **body** of the message. Omit the "quote marks" - and you should not include anything on the Subject: line. Never take a solemn oath. People think you mean it. -- Norman Douglas Rick Blom rblom@blazie.com 4318 Cowan Place Belcamp, Maryland 21017 (410)575-6086 Editor: BWD Skimmer (www.birdwatchersdigest.com) ========================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ========================================================================= ===========================================================================