Falconry Issues Aug 2008
Author: George Allen
Folks:
I have done my best for a number of years to try to improve cooperation with falconers and propagators, to understand your issues, and to write better regulations. Recently, I've received enough questions that I feel that I should respond to a couple of issues and to an article about our work on regulations.
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NAFA Announcement
Author: Dan Cecchini, Jr., President
Dear NAFA Member,
I'm writing to let you know that it appears the publication of the new US Federal Falconry Regulations is imminent. Many state fish and game departments now have a copy of the federal regulations in their possession; this is one of the last steps before the regulations are released.
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Falcon Fever
Author: Tim Gallagher
Tim Gallagher Talks to Public radio about Falconry and his new book Falcon Fever.
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Switchblade, M.I.A.
Author: John Hein, Meridian Idaho
During December 2007 I hunted with a tiercel Finnish Goshawk. After getting a late start on the season, we worked as a team, bagging 17 ducks (15 drakes and 2 hens) and 2 hen pheasants. I named him Switchblade. He was quick and deadly. The 19 head of game were caught under extreme conditions of weather. Snow, rain and wind didn’t stop us. When he got pulled into the ditches, I would dive into the water after him. I did video record many unbelievable flights. After a kill, he was semi -cropped up, not gorged. On non -hunting days I would alternate conditioning and footing, using training methods that I used and developed.
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Eyas Prairie Falcons
Can’t Live With Them, Can’t Live Without Them
Author: Eric Tabb
(Reprinted here with the permission of the Author)
While enjoying a warm, breezy late August morning out on the lawn, I gazed up on this year’s new eyas Prairie falcon “Slew Foot Sioux,” reflecting on how much we have been through together already this summer.
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Creating Helga
Author: Jesse Woody
(Reprinted here with the permission of the Author)
As with all such stories, I should of course, start at the beginning. As a youth of fourteen, I took my first awkward steps into the ancient and completely fascinating practice of falconry, with little else to guide me but my youthful ambition. An American literature book in a junior high school English class provided me with the first glance into my future. It was a well-written story by two young authors who vividly related their first adventures with falconry and birds of prey.
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Nomad
Author: Bruce Haak
(Reprinted here with the permission of the Author)
I called him "Nomad" because I didn't know where he had come from and I wasn't sure where he was going. Such is the nature of passage prairie falcons, winged hunters that might traverse half of the temperate latitudes of western North America during their lifetimes. The prairie falcon is North America's only indigenous falcon species, and most of its habitat lies within the borders of the United States. The heart of its range and the largest concentration of eyries are in southwest Idaho, where I moved in 1984. At the Snake River Canyon, which is a short drive south of my home, huge basalt cliffs line the canyon walls. Some 15 thousand years ago, a breach in the dam of prehistoric Lake Bonneville created a canyon carved in chaos.
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