% increase of tresspassing offenses this season

[TheHunt]

With the amount of lands that are closed off I am wondering about the number of trespassing occurrences that will happen?

I will have cameras out catching what I can.  I talked to the local sheriff and they said you have to be able to get a picture with location that can stand up in court.  But either way I am betting there will be lots of tickets handed out with gear and rigs taken away.

Thoughts?

[huntingfool7]

Gear and rigs taken away for trespassing?

[rtspring]

Im thinking if they come on my property I wont need the sheriff or the judge.. 

[buckcanyonlodge]

Trespassing while hunting is only a $500 fine....nothing else...In order to lose your hunting license you would have had to kill something... I've been through a trespassing case where the trespasser did not kill anything. He was fined $500 . I caught him sitting in one of my ground blinds on a clearly marked "NO Trespassing" , and fenced property... He works for Wash. State Fish & Wildlife!!!

[Wanttohuntmore]

It will increase some, but not a bunch.  Resources for arrests are already spread thin.  Private security would have to be bumped up a bunch and most land owners haven't really allocated the $$$ for it.  I'm curios how the fires and permit access areas will condense hunters this year, might be a zoo in some places and a desert in others.

[bigtex]

Trespassing while hunting is only a $500 fine

Incorrect.

Trespass in the 2nd Degree and Trespass While Hunting are both misdemeanors which can carry up to a $1,000 fine and up to 90 days in jail.

What the local judge/prosecutor sets as their "normal sentence" depends on them though....

[bigtex]

The number of trespass occurrences may rise, but I can bet you the number of prosecutions will not. Trespass cases go to the bottom of the pile when it comes to the level of importance at the prosecutors office.

[MountainWalk]

If your talking about shooting and killing trespassers,  not needing a cop or judge, then you ain't got no business owning guns. 
   That's nuts. 

[mfswallace]

Trespassing while hunting is only a $500 fine....nothing else...In order to lose your hunting license you would have had to kill something... I've been through a trespassing case where the trespasser did not kill anything. He was fined $500 . I caught him sitting in one of my ground blinds on a clearly marked "NO Trespassing" , and fenced property... He works for Wash. State Fish & Wildlife!!!

He still works for them  Seems a violation and especially a conviction of the laws of ones own agency should preclude said individual from working for agency  Not to surprising though, doesn't seems to be much accountability and integrity in wdfw... I say that knowing a few bad apples shouldn't condemn any one group but in this case it seems the bad apples are prevalent from top to bottom....

[jdb]

If there are good apples in that organization it seems I haven't run across one. My last encounter there were two agents whom both looked me in the eye and lied. When I politely asked them if they were sure that's how they wanted to spin things they both back tracked and had the same lame ass excuse