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Whooping crane shooters sentenced Total fines add up to $100,000
Paul Bickford
Northern News Services
Published Monday, March 11, 2013
THEBACHA/FORT SMITH
In separate court cases, two men in the United States were recently sentenced for shooting and killing endangered whooping cranes that had migrated south from Wood Buffalo National Park.
In Texas, a 42-year-old man shot a juvenile whooping crane in January after apparently mistaking it for a sandhill crane.
On March 6, the man plead guilty to one count of violating the Migratory Bird Treaty Act, and was fined $5,000, ordered to make a $10,000 community service payment and placed on probation for one year.
In South Dakota, a man was sentenced in February for shooting an adult whooping crane in April 2012. The 26-year-old was ordered to pay $85,000 in restitution, placed on probation for two years, had his hunting rifle confiscated, and lost hunting and trapping rights anywhere in the U.S. for two years.
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