Elk poaching in the Nile

[trophyhunt]

I wonder if the right people are reading this thread, i would guess not because they haven't pulled it yet. Again beautifully written.

[ICEMAN]

I wonder if the right people are reading this thread, i would guess not because they haven't pulled it yet. Again beautifully written.

What are you talking about?

[colockumelk]

Thankyou everyone for you kind comments.  I figured that the other side of the argument loves to bring up the past and that's all they want to talk about.  So if they want to talk about the past I'll bring up the past.  Using facts and historical records and not the romantic interpretation that the bleeding hearts love to use.  I know that that was wrong of me to use that five letter F word (FACTS) because in a debate who needs those right   Again thanks for your support.  It's discussions like these that are the beginning of change. 

[dontgetcrabs]

I stood up and applauded after reading that Colockumelk. Very well said. 

[pat2bear]

Here's a little info out of the herald this morning. Doesn't really explain a whole lot, but thought you guys would like to know.

WDFW on lookout for elk poachers

February 1, 2010 by Scott Sandsberry 

The latest in a series of elk-poaching incidents near the Clover Springs elk feeding site has Washington

Department of Fish and Wildlife enforcement officials looking for assistance.

Do you know someone who has recently come home with, begun showing around or started bragging about a fresh new set of what are probably some pretty big elk antlers?

On the night of Sunday, Jan. 23, someone shot and killed a large bull elk near the Clover Springs site, which is along Clover Springs (1600) Road off Nile Loop Road.

The bull must have been a pretty impressive rack of antlers, too, because the poachers simply chain-sawed the antlers off, took them and left the body lying there.

WDFW enforcement Capt. Rich Mann said WDFW staffers or volunteers were at the site until 4:30 p.m. that day, so the poaching must have taken place sometime after that. Snow that night also covered all of the vehicle tracks.

Typically, poaching around any feed site is reported by people in the area, Mann said.

“The locals kind of watch the area, but nobody happened to see that one. We’ve had really good support, but on this one we don’t have anything on it.”

Anyone with any information is asked to call the state’s confidential poaching hotline at 1-877-WDFW-TIP (877-933-9847), or the regional WDFW enforcement office at 509-457-9315.

Clover Springs is just one of a half-dozen places in which volunteers with the WDFW provide winter feed to help the animals through the coldest months of the year.

In two different poaching incidents on Jan. 16 and a third on Jan. 23, nearby residents or passersby reported the violations, and Mann expects the county to file charges in each case.

In another case in December, a Yakima man killed a large, 7-by-7 branch-antlered bull in the Cowiche Mountain area, and prosecutors are expecting to file charges on that one as well.

The Clover Springs site has endured a higher incidence of poaching, Mann said, because it’s more remote than some of the other feed-site areas around Central Washington.

“If you compare it to our other feeding sites, it’s out of the way. It doesn’t have a lot of public around it,” Mann said. “(The main feed lot at) Oak Creek is extremely visible. If somebody went in and shot an animal there, the public would probably mob them.”

[pat2bear]

I'm assuming the one on the 16th they're talking about is the one you reported Bone.

[Raul Duke]

 

[trophyhunt]

I wonder if the right people are reading this thread, i would guess not because they haven't pulled it yet. Again beautifully written.

What are you talking about?

I'm talking about the last time indian poaching was being talked about, the site was pulled. The guys that run the site said we were being racist.

[trophyhunt]

I'm not saying that these incidents are related to indians.

[colockumelk]

Wow great article.  That's alot of animals poached in the same area in a short amount of time.  If putting gates up Clover Springs is what it takes to protect these animals then I'd be okay with that.

[ICEMAN]

I wonder if the right people are reading this thread, i would guess not because they haven't pulled it yet. Again beautifully written.

What are you talking about?

I'm talking about the last time indian poaching was being talked about, the site was pulled. The guys that run the site said we were being racist.

We aren't going to "pull it" just because tribal issues are part of the discussion here...

[TheKid#10]

God bless you Clockumelk! Ever think of getting into government? Nevermind......you are way to intelligent for that. If I ever meet you I'd like to buy you a cold beverage of your choice.

Every other country in the modern world overtook someone or something to be who and where they are today. But only in the US are there nations within a nation. Wake up America/Congress.   

[3dsheetmetal]

I'm really impressed clockumelk well said.You hit the nail on the head can't argue with the truth.

[BoomWhop]

  Well written, good points.

[Kowsrule30]

Clockem... You are a god!!!!!!!      Right on!!!!!!!!