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PETA Loses Last-Minute Bid to Block DC-Area Urban Bowhunting

PETA Loses Last-Minute Bid to Block DC-Area Urban Bowhunting

 

A judge in Bethesda, Maryland, on Friday ruled that the Pilot Archery Managed Deer Hunting Program in two Montgomery County parks could proceed as planned, despite a desperate, last-ditch effort by the notorious and publicity-mongering animal rights group, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), to block the bowhunt through a court order.

Montgomery County Circuit Court Judge Cynthia Callahan denied a motion filed Thursday, September 10 for a temporary restraining order sought by Bethesda resident and PETA member Eilene Cohhn to stop the managed archery deer hunts approved earlier this year by Montgomery Parks.

Read more in the Outdoor Wire.