OPERATION CODY- An undercover investigation into WA's commercial poaching

[ucwarden]

1/4 of the way into the book and it's already very exciting.

You gotta admit; it's pretty hard to understand how I feel about the adminintration, isn't it?

[pianoman9701]

The problems you have had with the administration are no surprise to me whatsoever.

[ucwarden]

The problems you have had with the administration are no surprise to me whatsoever.

But at least I was subtle right?

[rasbo]

ordered one yesterday

[Special T]

Read the free preview.. Now i can't wait until my birthday so i can read the rest of it... Fortunately i don't have to wait long... It always helps the inlaws  when i give them specifics of what i'd like... 

[ucwarden]

Read the free preview.. Now i can't wait until my birthday so i can read the rest of it... Fortunately i don't have to wait long... It always helps the inlaws  when i give them specifics of what i'd like... 

Hope you enjoy the book, even though it is bound to make you mad!

[Elkrunner]

I may have to check this out.

[Special T]

I read a book about the forrest service that made me so mad it took me 6 months to read because i could only read it 15min at a time once a week or so... Hopefully this doesn't piss me off as much.

[ucwarden]

I read a book about the forrest service that made me so mad it took me 6 months to read because i could only read it 15min at a time once a week or so... Hopefully this doesn't piss me off as much.

Sorry, but it will probably be worse.

[Special T]

At least this one will "Name Names" So i can direct my frustration in the correct direction... And since i'n a WA citizen and these guys are realitively close hopefull some impact can be made.

[Odell]

Just bought the Kindle version. Look forward to reading it.

[ucwarden]

Just bought the Kindle version. Look forward to reading it.

Please do me a favor; when you are done write a review on Amazon, as well as on here?

Thanks.  Todd

[wadu1]

Got mine today, can't put it down the first 85 pages are great. May have to call in sick and cancel my muzzy hunt this weekend to finish the book. And get this it is a real book made of paper and smells like ink and you can hold it nothing better in my book.  about the punn

[Odell]

Just bought the Kindle version. Look forward to reading it.

Please do me a favor; when you are done write a review on Amazon, as well as on here?

Thanks.  Todd

Sure. Just finished today.

Operation Cody is a book that anyone who hunts, fishes or enjoys natural resources should read. In fact, I wish every WA resident would read this.  I promise you will be outraged by how little WDFW has done to protect the wildlife we all own. I assumed operations like this happened all the time, not so. Operation Cody seems to be the first (and maybe last) of its kind and even then it was shut down just when it started going. The book is easy to read and hard to put down. The author takes you inside a world of criminal trafficking in wildlife that seems to rampant and is honestly scary when you consider how much probably is still unknown.

Unfortunately the book fails to deliver at the end. There are very few details from the raids when the warrants are served and you have no closure on what has happened to these characters you have grown to know and loathe. There are no specific punishments listed and the reason given for that omission is insufficient. I suspect we would be even more outraged if we knew the level of punishment.

The author does a good job exposing the bureaucratic issues in the WDFW ranging from politics to incompetency, but some of the authors commentary comes off as petty and bitter. Enough so that it makes you wonder if there is another side of the story. I can understand his frustration after giving two years of his life to this operation, but a few edits would go a long way.

All in all, this is a must read and every hunter in this state should buy a copy for themselves and a friend. We all owe Todd a heartfelt thanks (and a steak) for his service to our state.

[ucwarden]

Just bought the Kindle version. Look forward to reading it.

Please do me a favor; when you are done write a review on Amazon, as well as on here?

Thanks.  Todd

Sure. Just finished today.

Operation Cody is a book that anyone who hunts, fishes or enjoys natural resources should read. In fact, I wish every WA resident would read this.  I promise you will be outraged by how little WDFW has done to protect the wildlife we all own. I assumed operations like this happened all the time, not so. Operation Cody seems to be the first (and maybe last) of its kind and even then it was shut down just when it started going. The book is easy to read and hard to put down. The author takes you inside a world of criminal trafficking in wildlife that seems to rampant and is honestly scary when you consider how much probably is still unknown.

Unfortunately the book fails to deliver at the end. There are very few details from the raids when the warrants are served and you have no closure on what has happened to these characters you have grown to know and loathe. There are no specific punishments listed and the reason given for that omission is insufficient. I suspect we would be even more outraged if we knew the level of punishment.

The author does a good job exposing the bureaucratic issues in the WDFW ranging from politics to incompetency, but some of the authors commentary comes off as petty and bitter. Enough so that it makes you wonder if there is another side of the story. I can understand his frustration after giving two years of his life to this operation, but a few edits would go a long way.

All in all, this is a must read and every hunter in this state should buy a copy for themselves and a friend. We all owe Todd a heartfelt thanks (and a steak) for his service to our state.

Odell:

I would like to explain the lack of detail "at the end".  Many of the cases, in this book, have not yet been revolved in court and a few haven't even been charged yet.  You might be asking, with that in mind, why I didn't wait to release the book until after all of the cases were done and I could put in the sentences of the suspects.

I wrote and released the book, not as a big money maker, but rather to try to get some real change in WDFW and how they conduct major investigations.  I knew, a few months ago, WDFW Chief Bjork was going to retire at the end of August 2013, and hoped that just maybe the book might make some small difference in how things settled out with the new administration.  So I released be the book in an effort to educate the public (and some of the officers in WDFW).

For the same reason, I did not put in much detail in what was found in the search warrants, but there really wasn't anything shocking there...meth, guns, and lot's of illegal wildlife.

In the coming months, I will do my best to update you and others on this forum, regarding what some of the suspects got for sentences.

As to your comment about my coming off as "petty and bitter", I can see where you (or others) may view it as such, but then again you didn't fight that administration everyday, to just give wildlife cases equal treatment as shellfish.  No doubt about it, I became very bitter, but I believe it was justified.

Thanks for taking the time to read the book, for your support of wildlife and for your comments.

Todd