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Rip Van Winkle’s Crow Killing Contest

10,000 Birds

I won’t pick a fight with hunters, as long as they eat what they shoot and don’t use lead ammunition. Look at the Maryland-based website Crow Busters , although I warn you you’ll need a strong stomach for the photographs. The infamous Labor Day Pigeon Shoot was held in Hegins, Pennsylvania from 1921 until it was closed down in 1998.

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The Economic Impact of Birding on National Wildlife Refuges: Creating Local Jobs

10,000 Birds

Unlike most of the other units in the study, however, most visits were from hunters.). Blackwater NWR (Maryland): 223,000; $7.8 Chincoteague NWR (Virginia/Maryland): 7,000,000; $390 million; 3,647. John Heinz NWR (Pennsylvania): 358,000; $4.6 million in activity and 19 jobs. million; 63 jobs. million; 48 jobs.

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