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$300,000 for a hunting license? Yep. That’s how much a New York man paid for a single Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep tag in Montana. And get this — the amount he paid was not even a record. From the Associated Press: GREAT FALLS, Mont. (AP) ? A New York man has paid $300,000 for a license to hunt bighorn sheep [...] W.Va. might (finally!) regulate exotic wildlife All I can say is that it’s about time. It’s a shame, though, that it took last summer’s exotic wildlife tragedy in Ohio to spur West Virginia’s lawmakers into action. For decades the state’s wildlife laws have contained loopholes literally big enough to walk an elephant through. From the Associated Press: CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) ? [...] Hunter needs rabies shots after killing rabid deer For the second day in a row, I’m posting a rabies story. This one’s a little unusual, though. It involves a hunter and a rabid deer. Here’s the release from the Pennsylvania Game Commission: HARRISBURG ? Pennsylvania Game Commission officials today announced that a Lancaster County hunter has undergone post-exposure rabies shots after harvesting and [...] Show-and-tell bat sparks rabies scare I don’t quite understand why a Rhode Island man felt compelled to walk through Providence holding a box that contained a live bat, but he obviously got something out of it. Unfortunately, he apparently also felt compelled to show the bat to people. And, naturally, it bit someone. Rabies scare! From the Associated Press: PROVIDENCE, [...] Wildlife official plans to change plea Well, well… The Ohio wildlife official who originally pleaded not guilty to federal charges of falsifying records and trafficking in illegally killed white-tailed deer has apparently decided to change his plea. From the Associated Press: COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) ? A former Ohio Department of Natural Resources wildlife officer plans to change his plea on federal [...]