Strut10 Posted October 8, 2006 Report Share Posted October 8, 2006 Jim Shockey was on TV today and he was wearing a bald eagle feather in his hat. Here in the U.S. that'll cost a guy $10000 and time served. What's your laws up in the Great White North?? I know native Americans can go through channels to get eagle feathers. But that's a big ordeal and it's for ceremonial purposes only. Don't know if Jim's of native descent. But it didn't look like he was too being ceremonial hunting moose & bear. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest IL_HuNtIn_KiD Posted October 8, 2006 Report Share Posted October 8, 2006 Re: Hey Canucks.......Jim Shockey ?? ooo...dont ya know...celebs dont have to follow laws....(or so they think) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swamphunter Posted October 8, 2006 Report Share Posted October 8, 2006 Re: Hey Canucks.......Jim Shockey ?? [ QUOTE ] ooo...dont ya know...celebs dont have to follow laws....(or so they think) [/ QUOTE ] Ah..your grouping them ALL into this statement?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BowtechTurkeyHunter Posted October 8, 2006 Report Share Posted October 8, 2006 Re: Hey Canucks.......Jim Shockey ?? [ QUOTE ] ooo...dont ya know...celebs dont have to follow laws....(or so they think) [/ QUOTE ] This isn't a very fair statement ... and my guess is that up in his providence the laws are a lot different ... I mean from what I understand hes so far out there in the wilderness ... I would bet Canada doesn't have the same reverence for the bald eagle as we do ... Not that I am making anexcuse but I would hope he found that feather ... and didnt aquire it other ways. Steve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strut10 Posted October 8, 2006 Author Report Share Posted October 8, 2006 Re: Hey Canucks.......Jim Shockey ?? O.K. Let's stay on topic, here. Does anyone know what the law is in Canada? I'm assuming that it's some kind of international agreement. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buckee Posted October 8, 2006 Report Share Posted October 8, 2006 Re: Hey Canucks.......Jim Shockey ?? We have the same laws you guys do pertaining to Eagle feathers and Eagle parts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strut10 Posted October 8, 2006 Author Report Share Posted October 8, 2006 Re: Hey Canucks.......Jim Shockey ?? Wonder why a guy would go on national TV wearing a federal offense on his hat? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BowtechTurkeyHunter Posted October 8, 2006 Report Share Posted October 8, 2006 Re: Hey Canucks.......Jim Shockey ?? How did you know it was a Eagle feather? Steve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buckee Posted October 8, 2006 Report Share Posted October 8, 2006 Re: Hey Canucks.......Jim Shockey ?? [ QUOTE ] He has traveled for weeks by dogsled with the Inuit in the high arctic and climbed the Sierra Madres of Mexico looking for Coues deer. He’s spiritually “smudged” with the Beaver Cree and traveled the water roads of the Northwest Territories searching for caribou with the Dene first nations people. Jim has learned his tracking skills from the Bushmen of the Kalahari Desert in Namibia, learned to live off the land from the Aboriginal People in the Australian Outback and has “faced his lion” with the proud Masai warriors in Tanzania. [/ QUOTE ] I imagine (and I'm just guessing here) is that Jim most likely recieved that feather (if indeed it is an Eagle feather) during a legal ceremony with one of the many Native bands he is and has been associated with. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doughboy1956 Posted October 9, 2006 Report Share Posted October 9, 2006 Re: Hey Canucks.......Jim Shockey ?? This is a very disturbing story to me and to anyone else who cares as i know you all do!!! The honoured eagles CBC News Online | February 2, 2006 In February 2005, nearly 50 dead eagles without tails or talons were found on two Indian reserves in North Vancouver. It was kind of disturbing. Just the way they were taken care of, they weren't taken care of properly; they were just disposed of like garbage. The work, wildlife officers declared, was that of an eagle parts trafficking ring. The parts, they say, were mostly headed for the competitive powwow circuit in the United States, where a whole bird can sell for as much as $5,000. It adds up to a lot of money. Or a lot of dead eagles, says Lance Sundquist, head wildlife officer for B.C.'s south coast. "We're probably seeing something in the vicinity of 500 eagles per year being harvested to support what we consider to be the illegal trade of these animals," Sundquist says. Five hundred dead eagles are not enough to threaten B.C.'s overall eagle population. But, Sundquist says, "It's significant. It's an unregulated harvest, something we would consider to be unregulated, therefore it creates a conservation concern with regards to discrete populations of eagles, both here in B.C. as well as potentially in the United States." According to B.C.'s Wildlife Act, no one can possess a dead eagle or eagle parts unless authorized by officials. The penalty? Up to a $50,000 fine or six months in jail. Those who want eagle parts, legally, must find them, discarded naturally. Or they can apply to wildlife officials, who distribute birds dead from natural causes. But that waiting list is long. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fisherguy Posted October 9, 2006 Report Share Posted October 9, 2006 Re: Hey Canucks.......Jim Shockey ?? We have different eagle laws than in the US! I do not know about all of Canada, but in Ontario anyway you can have eagle feathers you find on the ground. In fact if you hit one with a car, or find it dead, all you do is get a permit from teh MNR and you can have it mounted. Just recently eagles were further downgraded as far as threatened status. They are now getting quite low on the list of birds. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strut10 Posted October 9, 2006 Author Report Share Posted October 9, 2006 Re: Hey Canucks.......Jim Shockey ?? [ QUOTE ] We have different eagle laws than in the US! I do not know about all of Canada, but in Ontario anyway you can have eagle feathers you find on the ground. In fact if you hit one with a car, or find it dead, all you do is get a permit from teh MNR and you can have it mounted. Just recently eagles were further downgraded as far as threatened status. They are now getting quite low on the list of birds. [/ QUOTE ] That would explain it, then. I know down here, it's BIG TIME doo-doo to have one in your posession. Here's some of the regs. Eagle posession regulations Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doughboy1956 Posted October 9, 2006 Report Share Posted October 9, 2006 Re: Hey Canucks.......Jim Shockey ?? The US Removing the Bald Eagle from the Endangered Species Act http://www.fws.gov/news/NewsReleases/showNews.cfm?newsId=4DD20826-BC5E-5443-E8057A5414C5176D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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