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By RUTIIIE PIPKIN
James Arrington of Haywood Coun
ty couldn't believe it.
Since deer season opened, he'd
been chasing the granddaddy of the
bucks But now, on the last day, just
like the year before, it seemed the
whitetail had won.
"I'd been there hunting him that
morning," Arrington said. "I was fix
ing to come on home.''
Out of the woods, Arrington return
ed to base camp, the house of his
brother-in-law, who lives 12 miles out
side of Hot Springs, near Spring
Creek. While in the woods, they'd
seen the 12-point whitetail several
times that season. "I'd done shot at
him twice and missed him," Arr
ington said.
But back on his own turf, Arrington
found a surprise. Not more than 50
yards from the house, there stood the
deer. "He started to cross the
highway, and then the dog barked,
and he stepped back toward the
house," Arrington said.
While the deer was debating direc
tions, Arrington, a sportsman for
more than 20 years, jumped back in
side and grabbed his 300-caliber Win
chester Magnum, took aim and bang!
He had bagged his deer.
His shot hit the noble creature in his
left rump and, as he started to run off,
he crumpled, falling into the creek. It
162-7/8 on the Boone and Crockett
scale.
Boone and Crockett measurements
were started years ago by the Boone
and Crockett Club (named for Daniel
and Davie), to help push big-game
hunting in North America into the
forefront. The measurements are
made based on symmetry, compar
ing the antlers and points in cir
cumference and length. To qualify for
the Boone and Crockett record book,
a deer must measure 170.
That's happened in North Carolina
only once, that time with a Granville
County deer, said Joffrey Brooks,
wildlife biologist for District 9 of the
N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission.
"U came awfully close," Brooks
said of Arlington's deer. "You really
don't realize how many millions of
whitetail deer have been harvested in
North America each year, and how
(few) score 170, or even 160. . "! Last
year was the first one ever (at 170) of
the thousands that have been
harvested in North Carolina. So you
see, that one that fellow has is a real
trophy in itself.''
Arlington was thrilled. "I couldn't
believe it had such a rack on him until
I saw it," Arrington said. A native of
Saunook in Haywood County, Arr
ington grew up roaming the moun
tains But he says he's never seen a
local deer that compares.
Arlington has bagged whitetail in
Virginia, but was in the habit of giv
ing them away. But not this one. As of
last Tuesday, it claimed the prized
position over the mantle in the Arr
ington's living room.
"I've always like the outdoor
sports, and enjoyed collecting guns,"
he said. "So I always bunted. But I
never really expected to kill one that
big."
Especially not while standing in the
shadow of the front porch.
Marion tufl Photo
James Arrington or Haywood County shows off the 12-point
whitetail deer he shot last winter just 50 yards from his
brother-in-law's house in Spring Creek.
Forest Service
Proposes Changes
In Appeal Process
The U.S. Department of
Agriculture is proposing changes in
the process that allows the public to
appeal decisions made by national
forest officials.
"We reviewed the current regula
tion and found that we needed to
streamline, expedite and eliminate
confusion in the appeals process,"
said F. Dale Robertson, chief of
USDA's Forest Service.
The proposal separates appeals on
permits with the U.S. Forest Service
to use or to occupy National Forest
system lands from appeals involving
objections to land and resource
management planning and project
implementation decisions.
Currently, all appellants use the
same process -- they can obtain
review of a forest officer s decision at
two higher levels of authority. For ex
ample, a district ranger's decision
can be appealed to the forest super
visor and then to the regional
forester. The decision can be changed
? of the levels
the proposal, both types of
i would be given a streamlin
review at the next ad
ministrative level, with discretion for
further review at one more level. Ap- ?
peals involving special use permits
would retain many of the features of
the current rule. Contractual disputes
would not be subject to either rule.
"Our appeals process is a valuable
way to review key decisions, but it
has been abused and has become too
slow and too costly a tradeoff that im
peded land and resource manage
ment activities," Robertson said. The
proposal encourages comment regar
ding the payment of filing fern to
discourage abuse of the appeals pro
cess, he said.
If the proposed rules are adopted,
the U.S. Forest Service will monitor
how well deciding and reviewing of
ficers meet deadlines and prompt ac
tion will be taken to remedy ex
cessive delays in processing of ap
peals. Robertson said.
The proposal was published in the
May 16 Federal Register. Comments
on the proposal must be received in
writign by July 15 and should be sent
to F. Dale Robertson, Chief (1570),
Forest Service, USDA, P.O. Box
Forest Service, UED/ ^
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