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...August, Fla., wildlife officials received tips that Israel A. Cervantes was illegally hunting deer in the Ocala National Forest.When officials from the wildlife service arrived at Cervantess home to question him, he readily consented to having his home freezer inspected for frozen venison...
...mistake innocent tourists for thieves or cops. Last year kayakers on the Salmon River in the Klamath National Forest were held at gunpoint by traffickers, as were a hiker in the Sequoia National Park and hunters in Mendocino National Forest. Two years ago, an 8-year-old boy hunting deer in the Eldorado National Forest with his father was shot in the face by pot farmers. "If you are a hunter, a fisherman or a backpacker, it can be dangerous," says Michael Delaney, who oversees marijuana cases for the Drug Enforcement Administration in Northern California. "There's a safety factor...
...Today, even neophyte diners know not to chow on pangolin in the summer, as its flesh reputedly warms the blood. Toad, however, is regarded as a perfect June-August nosh, because each bite is believed to cool the body, like a gastronomic air-conditioner. Deer tendons braised with turnip are supposed to enhance a woman's beauty; barking deer is said to cure hangovers, and a sizeable wild deer's penis reputedly does wonders for the underwhelming man. But the most fashionable?and expensive?morsel today is a strip of giant-salamander skin, the reddish tinge of which exactly matches...
...feeling pressure from abroad on prices and wages. Buck Knives, an American icon based in El Cajon, Calif., began outsourcing 10% of its production to Asia four years ago. It was not an easy decision. Many buyers of the firm's distinctive dark-handled knives, used for skinning deer and cleaning fish, were unhappy to learn that some Buck knives are forged overseas. But, explains chairman Chuck Buck, "we were getting pressure from dealers to lower our prices. Our filleting knives were selling for $26. Foreign knives were going for $14." So Buck outsourced some production, laid off a dozen...
...early May, scientists from HKU and Shenzhen's Center for Disease Control decided to test animals sold in one large food market in Shenzhen, including house cats, hares, beavers and the Chinese muntjac, a small deer. When they examined sputum, feces and blood of the masked palm civet, they hit pay dirt. All six of the civets tested, according to Professor K.Y. Yuen, head of the microbiology department at HKU, carried huge amounts of a coronavirus strikingly similar to the SARS agent. The scientists sequenced its genome and found the two viruses to be nearly identical. The World Health Organization...