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General Outdoors => PGC News Release => Topic started by: CoyoteJeff on July 27, 2007, 04:45:37 PM

Title: Release #091-07
Post by: CoyoteJeff on July 27, 2007, 04:45:37 PM

POTTER COUNTY MAN PLEADS GUILTY TO KILLING OSPREY
Glenn Andrew Batson, of Coudersport, Potter County, recently pled guilty to killing an osprey, a state threatened species, at the Rainbow Paradise Trout Farm in Coudersport, according to Pennsylvania Game Commission officials.  On June 20, Batson was ordered by District Judge Annette Easton to pay a fine and replacement costs totaling $3,000.  He also faces the loss of his hunting and trapping privileges for up to three years.

For more information, please visit the Pennsylvania Game Commission - State Wildlife Management Agency website: http://www.pgc.state.pa.us/pgc/cwp/view.asp?a=11&Q=172063