Two Years In Prison And $1.5 Million In Restitution Ordered In Washington Sea Cucumber Case In late 2015, Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife Detective Julie Cook received a tip indicating Hoon Namkoong, the owner and operator of Orient Seafood … Continue reading →
Finding The Needle In A Haystack Buffalo Narrows, in Northern Saskatchewan, would be considered a remote and challenging duty station for any conservation officer, but even more so in 1959 before the advent of GPS, satellite phones, and modern radios. … Continue reading →
A Monumental Tribute By Dan Kelsey, Senior Conservation Officer (retired) Idaho Department Fish and Game In 1981, two conservation officers were murdered after responding to a complaint of illegal trapping activity in a remote area of Owyhee County in southwestern … Continue reading →
Guam Calling By Texas Game Warden Will Plumas I have been a state game warden, with the Texas Parks & Wildlife, for 26 years. My career was stationed in the extreme southern tip of the state, which includes the southern … Continue reading →
Bearglary In Progress Written by NYS ENCON Police Lt. Matthew Clemens Little did we know that 2018 would be a record year for black bear calls in northern New York. It all started on May 12th when New York … Continue reading →
OFFICER EXCHANGE, A TRIP OF A LIFETIME By: Conservation Officer Mike Campese, Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry, CANADA As I sat at the NAWEOA conference in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario Canada I had always wondered what it … Continue reading →
Operation Silence The Hounds A Cooperative Investigation between Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife Enforcement Program and Oregon State Police, Fish and Wildlife Division On December 3, 2016, troopers from The Dalles detachment of the Oregon State Police caught … Continue reading →
When an Ordinary Day Becomes Not So Ordinary You never know when that next phone call might lead to something BIG by By Mark McKinnon (All suspect names have been changed for this article) An ordinary Tuesday one spring, specifically March 22nd … Continue reading →
Night Hunting Patrols for Spot Lighters in the Duck Mountain District of Saskatchewan by Saskatchewan Conservation Officer Shawn Riabko North American game wardens call it many different things – spotlighting, jack lighting, lamping, pit lamping, shining. In Saskatchewan, the regulations … Continue reading →
The Golf Course Deer by Idaho Conservation Officer Steve Ross Announcer Rob: Hello and welcome to our coverage of the 2014 fall golf classic in Jerome, Idaho! We have an exciting lineup of players that should make for a great tournament this year. … Continue reading →
