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State Conservation Officer,
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you want to step out for a moment?
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Why are you throwing all the logs across the road
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on the way back here? - Yeah, they got it.
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They're like a freight train in the water.
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- Was there two? - No.
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Oh, nice!
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And we also don't want blinds to be left out and abandoned
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and become a nuisance.
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We're gonna go back and check the hunter
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here opening morning.
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-Need to chat with you for a moment... - All right.
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...about the deer you shot.
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Which one?
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Which one? I don't know.
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How many did you shoot?
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Wild animals...
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and wild places. They're more than a picture.
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They're inspiration, excitement, and adventure.
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Patrolling and protecting these natural resources is
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a first-class band of peace officers.
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These are the wardens, dedicated to the preservation
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of our great outdoors.
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Michigan conservation officers are always on the lookout for
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blinds left on state land.
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This is one of the nicer blinds we found out on
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state land, actually.
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You can hunt from a blind on public ground,
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but at the end of the season,
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you must take your blind down.
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Plus, all blinds must be marked
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with the owner's name and information.
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It's not marked, and obviously we're into April here,
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near May even, and it hasn't been taken down yet.
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So this is fully on state land.
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Sometimes we'll run into it where it'll be partially on
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private land, partially on state land.
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This one is completely on state land by
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several thousand feet, even.
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In Michigan's District 2,
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COs Jon Busken and Brett Gustafson
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are checking on one such blind.
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Yeah, you can see it's got a metal frame down here
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and then a roof on the top of it, too.
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The braces are lag-bolted into the trees and nailed into
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the tree over here to keep it stable.
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We locate these in general patrols throughout the summer.
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We get tips from the public, people that are out mushroom
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hunting or bird hunting in the fall or something or just
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out hiking that locate them.
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The bracing he has here, you can see it,
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like Officer Gustafson pointed out, lag-bolted into a tree.
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That would be illegal at any time on state land.
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It causes damage to the trees, which will affect their timber
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sale value later on, and that sale money will
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obviously go back to the state and the people of the state.
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So this is causing damage to that tree, which will,
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in the end, hurt the people of the state of Michigan.
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Cutting the trees would be another violation.
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Maintaining this, you can see that this lane wasn't naturally
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here -- you can see some of these other trees that have been
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cut down over the years.
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This has been maintained for years.
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So there's multiple violations
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and it's definitely worth following up on.
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These blinds on state land, hunters are allowed
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to have them, but they have to be removed.
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We want everyone to have an equal chance
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to use that land.
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And we also don't want blinds to be left out and abandoned
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and become a nuisance.
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The officers find a second blind left out
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after the season.
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This one a little less elaborate than the first,
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which makes it easier to abandon.
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And these blinds like this are normally the ones that,
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if somebody stops using them,
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there's not much invested in them.
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So they'll just leave it, you know, and let it fall in.
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And you have a pile of garbage out on state land.
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Yeah.
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COs Busken and Gustafson mark the GPS locations of the blinds
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and will check them come deer season to see if they can
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contact the hunters.
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Materials from abandoned blinds are just some of the items that
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groups working with Michigan's Adopt-a-Forest Coalition
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clean up.
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And this one happens to be
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four or five televisions.
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There's a couple across the street.
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This type of stuff, really, especially electronics
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like these TVs, they might have lead cathodes in them that can
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cause environmental damage.
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The Adopt-a-Forest program has helped clean 2 million acres of
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public land in Michigan, and they work with
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conservation officers to help figure out who left the trash.
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Littering fines in Michigan can be in the thousands of dollars,
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depending on the amount of trash.
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But we do find often the people who do it, and it's not always
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because they leave their name at the site.
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There's some really cool ways that these people,
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that the law enforcement, have found
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the culprit over the years.
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Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, it's hot.
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The opening morning of Michigan's firearm deer season
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starts like many mornings for
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Conservation Officer Brett Gustafson,
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by having breakfast with his dad, Bruce, a retired CO.
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Not necessarily just a job.
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It's been since I've been five years old.
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So it's more of kind of a lifestyle, I guess.
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They trade stories with Brett catching his dad up in
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the latest department news and Dad telling Brett where
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he plans to hunt later that morning.
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Sit and probably watch muskrats and beaver more than
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I'll watch a deer.
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With two kids interested in law enforcement,
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CO Gustafson hopes a third-generation officer
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is just a few years away.
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So we'll see. It'd be, uh, it'd be --
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I'd definitely enjoy it, so.
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And I know Grandpa would, so.
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After breakfast, CO Gustafson is on patrol
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with plans to check on a handful of illegal blinds
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he found over the summer.
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Hunting blinds on state land are allowed but must be
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taken down at the end of the season.
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The blinds Officer Gustafson has been tracking
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have been left out all year.
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And we're gonna go back and, uh,
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check the hunter here, opening morning,
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and hopefully get the situation corrected.
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Nobody home.
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Also, his trail camera's gone, so.
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I don't know. Maybe he was only bow hunting.
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Maybe he harvested his deer,
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and he's done hunting. I don't know.
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A short walk away is another illegal blind CO Gustafson
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found over the summer.
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But after making his way to this one through the rain
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and flooded trails, it's also empty.
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With no one at either of these illegal blinds, CO Gustafson
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checks a couple of other deer camps and finds most people are
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staying in on opening morning due to the heavy rain.
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Those who are out, are having slow mornings.
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- Morning. -Morning.
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- Get your buck already? -No.
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- No? -It's raining too darn hard.
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I don't see you dragging anything.
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No?
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Nothing this morning?
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No, I didn't see a deer this morning.
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Okay.
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All right.
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Well, we haven't seen many people out.
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-No. -For sure.
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That has to be so nasty this morning.
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I know. I know it.
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We walked all out, and it was raining so hard, I said,
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"I don't even think we can get back."
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That, uh, I mean, we had snow last week,
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and I thought, "All right, that'll be -- that'll be good."
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Yeah, that's what we was thinking.
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Well, it's a little disappointing,
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'cause there was a lot of time
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between myself and Officer Busken checking it,
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at various times this summer and this fall.
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But we'll -- we'll find him.
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They'll show up anyway, so.
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He didn't take his blind down.
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Even if he's done hunting this year,
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his blind's gonna be there.
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If we don't get him this year, we'll get him next year.
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This is a wedge prism.
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It's used for measuring basal area, and it's giving me
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an idea of how much trees are growing on an acre of land.
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Forest technician Cory Luoto
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has worked for the DNR for 20 years.
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We inventory one-tenth of our forest every 10 years
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so as a state we're inventorying about
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400,000 acres a year and over 10 years
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we'll inventory about 4 million acres.
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He surveyed the spot 10 years ago and has tracked significant
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growth over that time.
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What I'm looking at here, I was out in this stand 10 years ago,
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and the average aspen diameter 10 years ago across this stand
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was only 3 inches.
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Our aspen that we're looking at here is considerably larger
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than that now.
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We're looking at -- these quaking aspen
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are probably around 8 inches,
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And the balsam was about 3 inches before, on average.
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But last time when we were out here,
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I called the stand pretty much immature, but there is lots of
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mature timber out here now.
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In 2019, parts of this section will be put up for timber sale.
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Besides generating income for the state,
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the harvesting and replanting of sections provides diverse
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habitats for wildlife.
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When we clear cut our aspen, that is key for the survival
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and the enhancement of grouse and deer and rabbits and all
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that type of stuff.
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And when we're taking areas of hardwood like this,
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there's nesting birds that use this hardwood.
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So we'll break up the areas that we're cutting to not
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disturb that solid canopy throughout the forest land.
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But then when we do open it up, that's enhancing areas.
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The hawks have better vision to the ground.
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They can hunt better for mice and whatever else that
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they're eating, so, you know,
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everything benefits from the cutting.
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It's a whole complete circle
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for everything that we're doing.
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Red pines grow between 65 and 80 years
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before the state conducts their final harvest.
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And once a section is harvested, it's replanted,
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by hand, and the cycle starts anew.
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This stand right here is what it'll look like
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in about 55, 60 years.
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This stand will have one more thinning in it before
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it's final harvested.
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This red pine that we grow on sites like this is some of
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our most valuable products.
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On final harvest, we'll get $5,000 to $6,000 an acre for
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this, and we can grow these sites -- grow trees
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very effectively in places like this.
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In Michigan's District 8...
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Conservation Officer Shane Webster received a tip
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about a hunter shooting a nice buck,
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Just need to chat with you a minute.
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-Alright. -About the deer you shot.
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Which one?
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The hunter only purchased a doe tag.
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Oh, which one? How many did you shoot?
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-You shot a deer?
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- The one in Blackman Township. -Okay.
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-Who are you? -My stepdad.
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His stepdad? Okay.
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Um...
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then why are there a whole bunch of photos of you
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posing with the deer?
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Cause I was with the deer.
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-Okay.
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That's the first deer that I've been with.
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Okay.
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First deer I've been around.
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So your name attached to it
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with a bunch of photos being sent around.
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Pictures on Facebook?
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Yeah, Facebook, sent from friend to friend,
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text messages.
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Why would everybody be saying you shot this deer?
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I have no idea.
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The suspect says his stepdad shot the deer, but both are
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having trouble convincing Officer Webster of their story.
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You don't have any pictures of yourself posing with it?
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Okay. That's all you've got?
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Just the one? So you took pictures of
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you posing with it by yourself, but pictures of
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both of you...
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All right, let's -- let's not be silly, okay?
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All right, you know I know.
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So, why not just tell the truth?
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I know you shot it and you put his tag on it.
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Let's not be silly.
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Let's make this simple
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and let's get down to the brass tacks.
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-Okay.
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All right.
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In Michigan's District 2...
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Conservation Officer Brett Gustafson is checking on
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a deer taken during archery season.
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a property owner called with a trespass complaint.
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As CO Gustafson investigated the complaint,
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he determined that a deer was shot on an adjacent piece of
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property and the hunter had gone onto the complainant's
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land in the course of tracking it.
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And met with the property owner, and we went out
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and found the drag mark,
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determined that the deer was shot somewhere else,
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and they had just tracked it onto his property.
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After recovering the deer, the hunter left camp
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and returned home downstate.
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The trespass complainant was happy the hunter searched for
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and found the deer.
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But I still wanted to follow up, make sure that it was
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a legally harvested deer.
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Tracked it back a mile and a half
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to near the state forest campground.
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Found where it had been shot.
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Determined who the property owner was.
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I had Officer Chris Keel down in Metro area, Detroit,
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go and contact and interview him.
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And determined that it was a spikehorn buck.
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that he had harvested.
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The hunter had purchased a combo tag, which meant for
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the area he was hunting, he could only take a deer with
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at least three antler points on one side.
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Since the deer was only a spikehorn,
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CO Gustafson went to the house to seize the deer.
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The hunter had returned to his home downstate
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after taking the deer and told the officers
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he would return to camp that night.
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CO Gustafson planned to visit him the next day
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to issue him a ticket,
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but just as CO Gustafson was getting ready to leave,
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the hunter pulled in.
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-Hello. - Hello.
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How you doing?
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Uh, I guess not too good, huh?
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Mackinac County, located in Michigan's District 2,
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is more than 70 miles wide.
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Immediately north of Mackinac Bridge,
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conservation officers can log a lot of miles
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patrolling the county.
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You shot the spike?
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-Yeah. -Okay.
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Tonight, CO Brett Gustafson is on the west end of Mackinac
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investigating an illegal deer kill.
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Okay, so we'll deal with the deer issue in a minute.
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The other thing is, it must have been when the boys went
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back, they did some donuts and spinning around in
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the state forest campground.
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- Probably. -Okay.
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A friend's teenagers were also up at camp and caused damage to
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a state park with an ATV.
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One spot they pulled down to the lake shore and trenched it
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coming back up in one of the campsites.
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- I wasn't aware of that. -Okay.
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I had...
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- I'll take responsibility for that. -Okay.
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Well, what --
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what I had today is I had a couple of the, um,
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state park workers
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go down and check out and see what
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they estimated the damage was.
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So they're -- they're looking at about $800
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in gravel and topsoil and their time -- half a day to fix it.
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So...
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The teens use the hunter's ATV,
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so he takes responsibility for the damage.
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CO Gustafson also seizes the hunter's deer.
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The hunter had purchased a combo tag, which meant for
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the area that he was hunting, he could only shoot a deer with
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at least three points on one side.
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Antler point restrictions vary throughout the state,
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and the hunter said he misread the hunting digest.
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CO Gustafson takes the deer to a needy family in the area
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so it does not go to waste.
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Back in District 8...
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CO Shane Webster doesn't believe the story he's hearing
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from these two hunters.
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The hunter on the right says he shot and tagged the buck,
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but CO Webster has information leading him to believe it was
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actually the hunter on the left who pulled the trigger.
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He separates the two
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and asks one final time for the truth.
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People I've talked to
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don't want to have to be named, but they know you,
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okay?
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-I know it's a bad situation. - Mm-hmm.
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I don't want to drag them into this.
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I know you don't want them dragged into this.
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All right? Got a doe tag, I understand it.
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Most of the time, that's all you see.
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You get a chance at a buck, you take it.
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-All right? - Mm-hmm.
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Yeah, tag goes on it.
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Tag went on it. You're not a poacher.
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-I don't think you're a poacher. - Mm-hmm.
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All right?
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But the problem is that if you don't work with me,
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the prosecutor's office isn't gonna work with you either.
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- Yeah. -You understand me?
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Yeah.
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Do you want to tell me the truth,
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and we'll just make this easy? - Yeah.
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Okay.
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-What'd you shoot it with?
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12-gauge. Was that opening day?
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-Okay.
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-Did his tag go on it?
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Okay.
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I understand.
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The hunter admits to shooting the buck
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and using his stepdad's tag.
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Officer Webster seizes the deer from the local processor
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and issues the hunter a citation.
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In this case, it's a court-ordered $6,660 fine,
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with $6,500 of that going directly back to
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the State Fish and Game Fund.
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Kind of pulled him aside, explained it to him that
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we already knew, we already had enough evidence,
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and he eventually confessed that he had shot the deer.
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We went down, we seized the rack from
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the processor that they had taken it to.
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And that's about what we had.
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And unfortunately, it seems like we're getting a lot of
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that these days of people just borrowing and loaning tags
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instead of wanting to go out and just purchase one
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for themselves. A tag is cheap.
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You're looking at a nine-point buck.
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We're talking some pretty high fines up into the thousands of
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dollars instead of just doing it right the first time.
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We're here today for deer camp.
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Everybody know what deer camp is?
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At least have an idea what deer camp is?
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What's deer camp all about?
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The day before Michigan's firearm deer season
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opens, this conservation officer is in front of
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an elementary school class talking to second, third
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and fourth graders about hunting as a part of
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the DNR's deer camp event.
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Deer camp is about tradition, about deer hunting
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and about family. Okay?
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This officer talks safety,
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hunting ethics, and his duties as CO.
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How many points are on this deer?
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-Shout it out, guys. How many you got?
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Ten points.
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What he's asking is if he travels on somebody else's
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property, what's that called? Shout it out.
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- Trespassing. - Trespassing.
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You can't go on somebody else's property
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without their permission, and you can get fined for that.
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A handful of you guys showed that you'd shot a deer so far.
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How many have been out hunting with mom or dad?
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OK, vast majority.
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How many have taken hunter safety?
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Couple, OK.
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The Michigan DNR hopes events like this lead to
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the next generation of hunters.
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And most important why we started this program was to
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get you guys excited about the outdoors and excited about
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deer camp and going out hunting and fishing and getting
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involved in the outdoors.
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Good morning.
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How are you?
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Good, how you doing?
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The next day, on opening day of firearm deer season,
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Conservation Officer Mark Leadman is on patrol
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in District 1.
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- Seen anything yet?
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Nothing, OK.
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-You know why --
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OK, thank you for telling me. Got a concealed pistol license?
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-I do. -OK.
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-Do you know why we're out here? -Blind?
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Yeah, and what else?
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The trail.
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-Trail? -The ORV trail.
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Those always get the forester's attention or our attention
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when they're on state land.
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And yeah, the blind and the blind
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on the next hill over.
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And is there anybody in the next blind?
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-That one down there? -Yeah.
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That one's been there for probably...
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-Been there a long, long time. -That's not ours.
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Not yours, OK, and this one's been here how long?
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I would say probably a couple years, honestly.
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Yeah, OK, that's, yeah.
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Blinds on state land can't be put out before September 1st,
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and they must be clearly marked with your name and address.
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At the end of the hunting season,
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you must take them down.
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This hunter was also driving his ORV on an illegal trail.
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I mean, I guess you just go through the woods or what?
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The only time you can is to get a dead deer,
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a dead and downed deer.
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That's the only time on state land you can take
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and just go off-road.
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Other than that, it has to be on a road capable of travel
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with a conventional four-wheeled,
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two-wheel drive vehicle.
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So like I tell everybody, if a Ford Ranger pickup truck
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will make it down that road in two-wheel drive,
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then your ORV can go down it.
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If it's anything narrower, bumpier, mud, stumps,
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old, you know, just because it's an old logging operation,
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the skidder drove in there, but that doesn't make it a road
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or a trail. -Right.
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He's ticketed for the illegal blind which is a court-ordered
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$280 fine.
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To be legal, got to be placed out here starting in September,
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removed at the end of firearm deer season
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or whatever season you use it in.
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He's allowed to continue hunting from the blind,
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but must remove it at the end of the season.
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CO Leadman gives him a warning for the ORV use.
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The ORV we won't deal with now, but just knowing the ORV trail
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in there, yeah, you can, like I said, if you shoot a deer,
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though, you can go in and get your deer.
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So that's the one time you can take it in there.
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Now I've been doing the job for, just getting ready to start
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my 15th year and still love it, every minute.
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In Michigan's District 9, this Conservation Officer is
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checking on hunters by driving down train tracks.
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We're rolling down the railroad tracks,
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and what we've encountered is several subjects sitting up
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in tree stands without hunter orange on,
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which is a violation of state law.
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And it's not long before he spots someone.
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This hunter says he was in a hurry to get to his stand
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and just forgot to grab an orange hat.
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Heard all of them start shooting, and I was,
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like, rushing to get out here, because I figured, you know...
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- Everything's moving. -Yeah, if something
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runs through here, then I'll...
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maybe get something. And I get all the way out here,
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and I'm like, "Man, forgot my orange."
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He's also got too much bait.
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In areas where baiting is legal in Michigan, you are allowed
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up to two gallons in a 10-foot-by-10-foot area.
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Second thing here is you've obviously got too much bait.
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You know, you've got a couple bags of carrots in a couple
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different spots here, and apples too,
519
00:24:52,467 --> 00:24:53,867
so you've got too much.
520
00:24:54,033 --> 00:24:57,033
Deer are a grazing animal, so if they come in and there's
521
00:24:57,200 --> 00:24:58,667
a pile of them like this, they're gonna take
522
00:24:58,667 --> 00:25:00,567
a couple bites and then they're gonna move on.
523
00:25:00,734 --> 00:25:02,567
Where if you get it spread over this whole area right here,
524
00:25:02,567 --> 00:25:03,667
they're gonna come through and they're gonna
525
00:25:03,834 --> 00:25:05,367
eat a little bit better.
526
00:25:05,367 --> 00:25:06,767
And they'll stay there and present a little bit
527
00:25:06,934 --> 00:25:08,266
better shot for you.
528
00:25:08,433 --> 00:25:10,667
The hunter is given a warning for the bait.
529
00:25:13,100 --> 00:25:16,100
This CO issues him a ticket for failure to wear orange,
530
00:25:16,100 --> 00:25:19,166
which is a court-ordered $135 fine.
531
00:25:19,166 --> 00:25:21,367
The hunter goes back to his house for an orange hat
532
00:25:21,533 --> 00:25:24,100
so he can continue to hunt. - So slide back up there,
533
00:25:24,266 --> 00:25:25,867
just take your gun with you in case there's some neighborhood
534
00:25:25,867 --> 00:25:28,033
kid that comes running through or something like that
535
00:25:28,200 --> 00:25:29,767
so they don't find your shotgun.
536
00:25:29,767 --> 00:25:31,767
But then get back out here and get at it, OK?
537
00:25:31,767 --> 00:25:33,033
-All right. - All right.
538
00:25:33,200 --> 00:25:34,033
Have a good night.
539
00:25:54,367 --> 00:25:56,166
In District 1...
540
00:25:58,600 --> 00:26:02,367
CO Mark Leadman is trying to check on more illegal blinds,
541
00:26:02,533 --> 00:26:04,934
but the road he wants to go down is blocked.
542
00:26:05,100 --> 00:26:07,100
This might be the road we want,
543
00:26:07,100 --> 00:26:10,500
and it looks like he's blocked the road, which is illegal.
544
00:26:12,967 --> 00:26:14,767
And he has. He's blocked the road.
545
00:26:14,767 --> 00:26:18,066
So, you're not allowed to block roads on state land,
546
00:26:18,233 --> 00:26:20,100
and he parked right in the middle of it.
547
00:26:20,266 --> 00:26:21,767
He's got about a half mile walk back
548
00:26:21,767 --> 00:26:23,667
to where he thinks the blind is.
549
00:26:38,667 --> 00:26:41,166
But the truck isn't the only obstacle this hunter has
550
00:26:41,166 --> 00:26:42,400
put in the road.
551
00:26:42,567 --> 00:26:44,867
Yeah, somebody's trying to block the road by putting these
552
00:26:45,033 --> 00:26:49,367
couple of logs across it, keeping other hunters
553
00:26:49,367 --> 00:26:50,667
from coming in here.
554
00:26:52,300 --> 00:26:54,767
There are signs of deer all along the walk,
555
00:26:54,934 --> 00:26:56,967
which explains why this hunter would want to keep
556
00:26:57,133 --> 00:26:58,667
other hunters out of the area.
557
00:27:05,266 --> 00:27:06,367
See the deer?
558
00:27:08,100 --> 00:27:09,266
Definitely rubbed up there.
559
00:27:10,266 --> 00:27:12,834
And there's a scrape on the ground right up here.
560
00:27:15,300 --> 00:27:17,734
So the deer, the buck has been in here.
561
00:27:19,467 --> 00:27:22,500
Pretty good spot to be hunting.
562
00:27:24,567 --> 00:27:27,000
About 10 minutes after leaving his patrol truck,
563
00:27:27,166 --> 00:27:28,834
CO Leadman finds the blind.
564
00:27:45,100 --> 00:27:46,867
- Hello.
565
00:27:48,367 --> 00:27:49,467
How you doing?
566
00:27:52,767 --> 00:27:54,400
State Conservation Officer.
567
00:27:54,567 --> 00:27:55,767
You wanna step out for a moment?
568
00:28:16,567 --> 00:28:18,867
Out on patrol in Michigan's District 9...
569
00:28:29,467 --> 00:28:31,100
Well, you're looking down, that must be a good sign.
570
00:28:33,867 --> 00:28:35,967
This conservation officer sees two hunters
571
00:28:36,133 --> 00:28:38,300
on the edge of the road.
572
00:28:38,467 --> 00:28:39,767
You got blood there.
573
00:28:39,934 --> 00:28:41,100
It's all coming through pretty good.
574
00:28:43,233 --> 00:28:45,867
A grandfather and a grandson had two bucks and a doe
575
00:28:46,033 --> 00:28:47,200
come into their blind.
576
00:28:47,367 --> 00:28:49,166
The grandfather shot the smaller buck,
577
00:28:49,166 --> 00:28:52,367
the grandson shot the larger one, but he ran across the road
578
00:28:52,533 --> 00:28:54,033
and onto someone else's property.
579
00:28:55,467 --> 00:28:56,834
No, and you did the right thing.
580
00:28:57,000 --> 00:28:58,033
You know, whether it happened to be
581
00:28:58,033 --> 00:28:59,667
just because we stopped by, hopefully it wasn't,
582
00:28:59,834 --> 00:29:02,300
but... -I was gonna peek
583
00:29:02,467 --> 00:29:05,100
over the fence, I'll be honest with you. - Yep.
584
00:29:05,266 --> 00:29:06,567
Anytime it goes onto somebody else's property,
585
00:29:06,567 --> 00:29:09,567
you've got to make sure that you've got their permission.
586
00:29:09,567 --> 00:29:11,066
And if you don't, in a situation like this,
587
00:29:11,233 --> 00:29:14,266
you can always get a hold of us, and we can try and step in
588
00:29:14,433 --> 00:29:16,600
and help out as much as we can.
589
00:29:16,767 --> 00:29:18,667
This officer takes a quick look to see if he can
590
00:29:18,834 --> 00:29:19,767
locate the buck.
591
00:29:23,567 --> 00:29:25,100
All right, guys, got good news and bad news.
592
00:29:26,567 --> 00:29:29,300
Deer's dead, but it's a long ways back in there.
593
00:29:31,266 --> 00:29:32,600
It's not gonna be an easy drag,
594
00:29:34,867 --> 00:29:37,100
but...
595
00:29:37,266 --> 00:29:38,867
...it gets pretty gnarly back in there.
596
00:29:39,033 --> 00:29:40,367
It is bad.
597
00:29:40,367 --> 00:29:43,000
It's back in there, straight back, about 150 yards
598
00:29:43,166 --> 00:29:44,367
straight back in.
599
00:29:44,533 --> 00:29:46,500
He gets permission from the landowner to take
600
00:29:46,667 --> 00:29:49,166
the hunters back to the deer so they can tag, gut,
601
00:29:49,333 --> 00:29:50,467
and retrieve the buck.
602
00:30:11,300 --> 00:30:12,967
They don't have permission to be on this piece of property,
603
00:30:13,133 --> 00:30:16,834
so what I did, there's nobody else here right now, and I know
604
00:30:17,000 --> 00:30:19,100
the property owner for this piece of property.
605
00:30:19,266 --> 00:30:21,734
So I tracked the deer in and followed the blood trail
606
00:30:21,900 --> 00:30:22,934
and found the deer.
607
00:30:23,100 --> 00:30:24,934
So at that point we were able to
608
00:30:25,867 --> 00:30:28,200
get the deer back out and get it back to the rightful owner.
609
00:30:28,367 --> 00:30:30,867
So at least it's getting put to use versus just being left
610
00:30:31,033 --> 00:30:33,033
in there and being left for coyote bait
611
00:30:33,200 --> 00:30:36,400
or for whatever waste.
612
00:30:36,567 --> 00:30:38,667
Made a great opening day for grandson.
613
00:30:38,834 --> 00:30:39,967
Give him a little bit of bragging rights.
614
00:30:42,367 --> 00:30:44,000
Good deal.
615
00:30:51,767 --> 00:30:54,567
DNR biologists spent a week over the summer
616
00:30:54,734 --> 00:30:56,667
on the Detroit River working to catch
617
00:30:56,834 --> 00:30:58,834
one of the Great Lakes' most challenging fish.
618
00:30:59,000 --> 00:31:00,367
There, they got it.
619
00:31:00,533 --> 00:31:01,767
The spotty muskie.
620
00:31:01,767 --> 00:31:04,967
We capture the muskellunge in the springtime
621
00:31:05,133 --> 00:31:08,166
when they're in shallow water spawning, and then we hold
622
00:31:08,333 --> 00:31:10,467
them for a night, and the
623
00:31:10,634 --> 00:31:11,934
spawn the next evening.
624
00:31:12,100 --> 00:31:14,367
What is the best method to capture the muskie?
625
00:31:14,533 --> 00:31:16,266
By electrofishing for them at night.
626
00:31:16,433 --> 00:31:18,367
It's over here. It's over here somewhere.
627
00:31:18,367 --> 00:31:21,367
Hold on, right there. I got him, I got him.
628
00:31:21,367 --> 00:31:23,300
- I think we got them together. - Get them,
629
00:31:23,467 --> 00:31:27,300
get them, get them. Got them? - Yeah.
630
00:31:27,467 --> 00:31:30,600
The basic concept of the boat is the ground is
631
00:31:30,767 --> 00:31:32,567
the actual hull of the boat.
632
00:31:32,567 --> 00:31:35,066
And then we have these probes here that produce
633
00:31:35,233 --> 00:31:37,567
the electricity into the water,
634
00:31:37,734 --> 00:31:41,500
and basically it shocks fish, enables us to capture fish.
635
00:31:42,600 --> 00:31:45,266
So the pads control the electricity to the front
636
00:31:45,433 --> 00:31:48,066
of the boat. It's a safety measure.
637
00:31:48,233 --> 00:31:50,100
Both the guys on the front of the boat that are doing
638
00:31:50,100 --> 00:31:52,400
the netting have to be standing on the pads.
639
00:31:52,567 --> 00:31:54,367
If we fall off, it shuts off the electricity,
640
00:31:54,367 --> 00:31:57,066
which is a good thing from our standpoint.
641
00:31:57,233 --> 00:31:58,166
I got him, got him.
642
00:32:00,667 --> 00:32:02,000
I'm gonna go over this side.
643
00:32:07,300 --> 00:32:10,100
Today, with the onset of dams and whatnot
644
00:32:10,266 --> 00:32:13,100
from the '20s and '30s, they're just not there anymore.
645
00:32:13,266 --> 00:32:16,066
The habitat, there's no access for them to get there anymore.
646
00:32:16,233 --> 00:32:19,266
So what we're doing is providing a trophy fishery
647
00:32:19,433 --> 00:32:20,767
inland in some locations.
648
00:32:21,767 --> 00:32:22,867
And we're providing...
649
00:32:25,000 --> 00:32:28,166
a Great Lakes strain of fish into the environment
650
00:32:28,333 --> 00:32:29,467
where they used to be.
651
00:32:29,467 --> 00:32:31,967
The muskie is thriving in parts of the Great Lakes,
652
00:32:32,133 --> 00:32:34,033
but is struggling to maintain its numbers
653
00:32:34,200 --> 00:32:36,033
in inland lakes and rivers.
654
00:32:36,200 --> 00:32:38,400
By capturing muskie, biologists are able to
655
00:32:38,567 --> 00:32:42,266
spawn them and help restart the previously populated areas.
656
00:32:42,266 --> 00:32:43,767
They're like a freight train in the water.
657
00:32:49,200 --> 00:32:51,100
It stuns them momentarily.
658
00:33:03,467 --> 00:33:07,100
You kind of play to the ability of your netters as well,
659
00:33:07,100 --> 00:33:12,166
because the more experienced netters will know, go head first,
660
00:33:12,166 --> 00:33:15,100
tail first, based on the current, which way
661
00:33:15,266 --> 00:33:17,367
the boat -- direction the boat's going.
662
00:33:18,367 --> 00:33:21,033
It helps to have a real experienced crew up there
663
00:33:21,200 --> 00:33:23,600
netting, because you get one second of time
664
00:33:23,767 --> 00:33:25,200
to collect those fish.
665
00:33:25,367 --> 00:33:27,600
Each boat has a captain and two netters.
666
00:33:27,767 --> 00:33:29,934
When a muskie is shocked and rolls to the top,
667
00:33:30,100 --> 00:33:32,600
chaos can ensue . - It's really deep.
668
00:33:38,367 --> 00:33:40,600
- I got it. - Good, nice.
669
00:33:41,734 --> 00:33:43,834
-You got it? - Yeah.
670
00:33:54,166 --> 00:33:55,567
- Was there two? - No --oh.
671
00:33:56,967 --> 00:33:59,100
- Nice! -Each fish is different.
672
00:33:59,266 --> 00:34:02,100
You may get 15,000 eggs out of one fish,
673
00:34:02,266 --> 00:34:04,367
or you may get 50,000.
674
00:34:04,367 --> 00:34:08,600
Anywhere from 100 to 250 muskie are captured each year.
675
00:34:08,767 --> 00:34:11,300
From there, the eggs are harvested and sent to
676
00:34:11,467 --> 00:34:13,100
a hatchery for incubation.
677
00:34:13,100 --> 00:34:16,200
In the fall, that new population of fish is released,
678
00:34:16,367 --> 00:34:19,767
helping the muskie population recover to historic levels.
679
00:34:27,667 --> 00:34:31,567
In 2016, more than 1.3 million deer licenses were sold
680
00:34:31,734 --> 00:34:34,467
in the state of Michigan, and the state had the second
681
00:34:34,467 --> 00:34:38,166
most successfully harvested deer, trailing only Texas.
682
00:34:38,333 --> 00:34:40,667
There are eight million acres of public hunting land
683
00:34:40,834 --> 00:34:43,033
in the state, but sometimes competition to
684
00:34:43,200 --> 00:34:46,000
get and hold a hunting location can lead people to
685
00:34:46,166 --> 00:34:47,133
break the rules.
686
00:34:50,567 --> 00:34:52,066
In Michigan's District 1...
687
00:34:54,233 --> 00:34:56,667
Conservation Officer Mark Leadman is trying to
688
00:34:56,834 --> 00:34:59,266
check on an illegal blind on state land.
689
00:34:59,266 --> 00:35:02,000
This might be the road we want, and it looks like
690
00:35:02,166 --> 00:35:04,567
he's blocked the road, which is illegal.
691
00:35:04,734 --> 00:35:06,767
But a hunter parked his truck in the middle of the road
692
00:35:06,934 --> 00:35:08,266
and placed some downed trees
693
00:35:08,266 --> 00:35:10,567
across the road, blocking access.
694
00:35:10,734 --> 00:35:13,166
Yeah, somebody's trying to block the road by putting these
695
00:35:13,333 --> 00:35:17,634
couple of logs across it, keeping other hunters
696
00:35:17,800 --> 00:35:19,433
from coming in here.
697
00:35:19,600 --> 00:35:21,834
After a short walk, Officer Leadman finds
698
00:35:22,000 --> 00:35:24,133
the hunter in his blind.
699
00:35:24,300 --> 00:35:25,266
State Conservation Officer,
700
00:35:26,667 --> 00:35:27,934
you wanna step out for a moment?
701
00:35:28,100 --> 00:35:30,867
- Sure. - Grab your license with you.
702
00:35:35,033 --> 00:35:36,567
- Is that your truck out front?
703
00:35:37,867 --> 00:35:39,467
-OK.
704
00:35:39,467 --> 00:35:42,867
-No, you're not. - OK.
705
00:35:43,033 --> 00:35:44,100
Why do you think you're not legal?
706
00:35:45,467 --> 00:35:47,634
First time I've seen you in my blind.
707
00:35:48,934 --> 00:35:50,266
First time you've seen me in your blind?
708
00:35:50,433 --> 00:35:51,767
Well, coming through here, I've had guys
709
00:35:51,767 --> 00:35:52,834
come through before.
710
00:35:53,000 --> 00:35:55,367
OK, why do you think you're illegal?
711
00:35:55,367 --> 00:35:57,066
- I was just paranoid. -OK.
712
00:35:58,867 --> 00:36:02,000
I try to do everything as up to the -- as I can.
713
00:36:02,166 --> 00:36:04,066
OK.
714
00:36:04,233 --> 00:36:05,767
Why are you throwing all the logs across the road
715
00:36:05,767 --> 00:36:07,133
on the way back here?
716
00:36:07,300 --> 00:36:10,567
Oh, because guys would drive down and spin their tires
717
00:36:10,567 --> 00:36:13,166
and make a bunch of noise. -Spin their tires.
718
00:36:14,266 --> 00:36:15,567
-During deer season? - Yep.
719
00:36:15,734 --> 00:36:17,266
And have you ever called and reported that?
720
00:36:17,266 --> 00:36:21,834
- No. -So then makes me think it maybe didn't happen.
721
00:36:22,000 --> 00:36:23,467
- OK. -You've got your truck parked
722
00:36:23,467 --> 00:36:25,767
in the middle of the road, which is illegal. - OK.
723
00:36:25,767 --> 00:36:28,667
You're not allowed to block, impede any traffic.
724
00:36:28,834 --> 00:36:31,166
You're far enough off the road where even if traffic was to
725
00:36:31,166 --> 00:36:32,300
drive down that road,
726
00:36:33,967 --> 00:36:35,634
they have the right to drive down all those roads.
727
00:36:35,800 --> 00:36:36,734
- OK. - Your blind is illegal.
728
00:36:36,734 --> 00:36:38,133
How long has this been out here?
729
00:36:39,634 --> 00:36:40,734
Two weeks.
730
00:36:43,166 --> 00:36:44,266
Two weeks?
731
00:36:46,066 --> 00:36:47,667
I'm guessing.
732
00:36:47,834 --> 00:36:49,533
You're supposed to be allowed the first...
733
00:36:50,667 --> 00:36:51,767
part of...
734
00:36:53,834 --> 00:36:55,200
November, correct?
735
00:36:57,667 --> 00:36:58,767
No, the date's...
736
00:36:59,867 --> 00:37:01,467
the date's different than that.
737
00:37:01,634 --> 00:37:02,700
OK.
738
00:37:03,667 --> 00:37:05,367
But when was it really put out here?
739
00:37:05,533 --> 00:37:09,734
Without, without exaggerating or trying to change the story.
740
00:37:09,900 --> 00:37:11,533
I can't say. So if I went...
741
00:37:11,700 --> 00:37:14,066
Was this, did you use this last year?
742
00:37:14,233 --> 00:37:16,533
- Yep. - And it's still out here from last year?
743
00:37:16,700 --> 00:37:17,967
- Oh, no, absolutely not. -No?
744
00:37:18,133 --> 00:37:20,967
- Absolutely not, 100%, no way. -OK.
745
00:37:23,166 --> 00:37:25,233
100%, no way.
746
00:37:25,400 --> 00:37:27,266
He takes a closer look at the blind and believes
747
00:37:27,433 --> 00:37:29,667
the hunter took it in after last year.
748
00:37:29,667 --> 00:37:33,166
In Michigan, on public land, blinds cannot be left out all year
749
00:37:33,333 --> 00:37:35,667
and must be marked with the owner's name and address.
750
00:37:36,767 --> 00:37:39,066
OK, yeah, it looks like it actually is kind of fresh.
751
00:37:39,233 --> 00:37:40,266
The blind looks so old,
752
00:37:40,433 --> 00:37:43,867
but I don't have this one marked.
753
00:37:44,033 --> 00:37:45,467
There's a bunch out here that I do have marked,
754
00:37:45,634 --> 00:37:49,867
but this isn't the one.
755
00:37:49,867 --> 00:37:51,333
You didn't have your orange on when we come up.
756
00:37:51,500 --> 00:37:52,634
You do need to keep it on.
757
00:37:52,634 --> 00:37:53,900
- In the blind? - Even in the blind.
758
00:37:53,900 --> 00:37:56,333
The problem is you shoot an eight-pointer and you wound it,
759
00:37:56,500 --> 00:37:59,467
and it takes off running, and it's kicking, and you shot
760
00:37:59,467 --> 00:38:01,266
the both front legs.
761
00:38:01,266 --> 00:38:03,066
You're gonna chase after it immediately.
762
00:38:03,233 --> 00:38:04,834
You don't think to put your orange back on.
763
00:38:05,000 --> 00:38:06,133
You're simply out in the woods.
764
00:38:06,300 --> 00:38:08,066
Pretty soon you're two hills over
765
00:38:08,233 --> 00:38:09,767
and there's a hunter over there and he sees
766
00:38:09,767 --> 00:38:12,233
you moving without orange.
767
00:38:12,400 --> 00:38:14,266
They shoot at movement nowadays, some people have.
768
00:38:18,033 --> 00:38:21,166
CO Leadman has him remove the trees blocking the road
769
00:38:21,333 --> 00:38:22,500
and move his truck.
770
00:38:22,500 --> 00:38:24,767
He gives the hunter a warning on not having orange on
771
00:38:24,934 --> 00:38:27,567
in the blind and issues him a citation for blocking
772
00:38:27,567 --> 00:38:30,367
a road on state land, which is a civil infraction
773
00:38:30,367 --> 00:38:33,367
and a court-ordered $125 fine.
774
00:38:33,367 --> 00:38:36,467
But since his blind and bait are legal, he's able to go back
775
00:38:36,634 --> 00:38:38,367
and continue his hunt. -Questions?
776
00:38:38,533 --> 00:38:39,567
- No. -OK.
777
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- Thank you. -Good luck.
778
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- OK. -Yeah, good luck to you.
778
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