Don Young's fondness for hunting at game ranches detailed in House Ethics documents

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US Rep. Don Young from Alaska poses in his office on Capitol Hill January 20, 2011 in Washington, DC.

Don Young's fondness for hunting at game ranches detailed in House Ethics documents
By RICHARD MAUER
June 25, 2014 Updated 6 hours ago

With trophy heads and pelts lining the walls, Rep. Don Young's Washington office may leave visitors thinking they are in the presence of a master hunter.

And Young himself has done nothing to disabuse anyone of the notion he's a tough wilderness man, once sticking his own hand in an animal trap in a hearing to prove a point, and sometimes telling reporters that he's missed sessions of Congress to stalk wild game.

While Young may be familiar with the bog-slogging and bug-swatting Alaska experience in home-state hunts for moose and caribou, that's not the description of Young's hunting trips contained in the House Ethics report that rebuked him last week.

Those hunting trips, taken by Young when he was elevated to chairman of the House Transportation Committee and became sought after by lobbyists, contractors and developers, were often to luxury lodges where game lived behind fences and was raised to be killed by paying guests -- or, in the case of Young, by a guest whose stay was paid for by someone else.