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To: Geoff Altman who wrote (8775)	5/20/2006 6:13:13 PM
From: ManyMoose	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71588

OK, all this is hearsay, but I know the person who heard it from subject person. It may or may not be true. Subject's father was a landowner near where I worked in Idaho during the early 1970s. The government agency I worked for purchased a lot of "scenic easements" from landowners along a wild and scenic river, The Clearwater. Scenic easements were an exchange of cash money from the government to the landowners along the river. In order to get the cash, the landowners gave up certain rights, such as the right to subdivide, the right to build ugly metal buildings, the right to build more than x number of buildings, and so forth. The theory was that these easements would preserve the scenic beauty of the wild and scenic Clearwater. Subject Person visited his father's place on the Clearwater from time to time, and became interested in hunting big game. He bought a big game license, an elk tag, and a rifle, and went out one morning along the Clearwater not far from his father's place. There he saw an elk getting a drink from the river, and shot it. On closer inspection, he found that the 'elk' was really a moose. He turned himself in. The Fish and Game officials confiscated the carcass and gave him a big fine, which he paid. Quite a switch from where we first started, eh?