are trail cams illegal on national forest?

[huntnnw]

they better hope they find some sort of written law in WA cause I will cause hell over this if they dont...I will get the local news involved with this if they dont make this right.. Vigilante law enforcement official pushing his agenda. 

Thats the other thing Bobcat this is our tax dollars funding this clown...a law abiding citizen and hes out trudging thru snow and miles in the woods to haul out someones trail cam and food block! then calling him at work!! that he has his stuff!! wtf! Why dont you get out and bust people who are poaching game!

[bobcat]

I wouldn't want them wasting time and money on removing trail cameras even if there were a law against it! What a waste of the very limited wildlife law enforcement we do have. There are people out poaching animals on their winter range right now. Go after them!

[huntnnw]

I wouldn't want them wasting time and money on removing trail cameras even if there were a law against it! What a waste of the very limited wildlife law enforcement we do have. There are people out poaching animals on their winter range right now. Go after them!

  yup 0 harm in trail cam hanging.  1 gamie in a unit and he chooses to spend the better part of a day trudging thru the hills to retrieve a cam 

[bobcat]

It wouldn't bother me as much if it had been a USFS employee. I would have expected it from them. But from the WDFW? Why? You'd think they would support hunters, since we support them.   

All I can think of is the guy must be an anti. It's just sad anti's can get hired to work for Fish & Wildlife.

[huntnnw]

totally agree

[WapitiChaser]

had to read the whole thread cause of the tag line.....

What a crock of pellets.  Gamie been watching too much Discovery Channel game warden shows.  Probably thinks he's the Savior of Wildlife instead of a MANAGEMENT agent.    Gotta wonder about the guys getting into the warden business these days....

The attitude that every hunter is a poacher/lawbreaker/ insert your least favorite personality type here  is just bunk.

 

[Curly]

The game warden needs to lose his job.

[billythekidrock]

FYI - Outfitters, guides, tv shows, or guys making cd's to sell, must all have Special-Use permits on USFS lands.

No need to get defensive (if you were), was just wondering....  I would not have thought about needing one if I was filming my own hunt and then had people tell me I should sell the DVD.  I can see in the case where something is being taken for commercial purposes, but having to have a permit for photos/video of a non-consumptive nature seems ridiculous as it is public land.

You only have to have the permit if you plan to sell a DVD of the hunt prior to the hunt. You can film for your own personal purposes without a permit and then, later, if you decide, you are still legal to sell a video. But after you market your first one, you will need a permit for anything after that. Trust me, I called about the permit and was told as long as I was not a production company I could film all the hunts I want today and sell them later.

[bigbucks1985]

Hey thanks for the back up Shane, yeah that gamie probably wasted at least two days work messing with me and i am pretty sure even more time was wasted when he had to find out all my info and called me more than once, i finally called him back after he left a message stating he had some stuff he believed belonged to me.

[asl20bball]

somebody (Gamie, supervisor etc) needs to pay for this with a suspension or something. This is unacceptable and we (hunting community) need to send the message. Good luck fellas and way to stick with this! keep it up.   

[brackens]

Another thing is that they have maybe three guys for three counties up there.  You know they have better things to do than this like maybe....catch poachers.  It would even be understandable if he wrote you a ticket.  At least you know if was for the money.  This is just the kid that finally go a job in enforcement and wanted to put the pressure on someone he thought would rollover.

[deerhunter_98520]

i cant stand leo abusing their "power"....i had  a leo harassing me cause i was just a punk kid right out of high school...i had blue flashing led lights hooked up to my car alarm and had a big stereo in my truck..well the bass would open my back hatch so i would just back into my driveway right up against the garage door so i wouldnt have to lock it....well this leo came up at 10pm and told me if i dont go turn the lights off he will arrest me for imitating a leo...i told him what leo would pull up and back into a drive way  like i was parked and they are not strobe lights like on police cars...he then repeated he would arrest me so i just turned them off.....then about a week later i got a ticket for parking to close to a stop sign in front of my house and he told me i had to be 25ft away from it...well i measured it out and it stopped right in the middle of my driveway..so am i not suppose to park in my driveway? then the *censored* pulled me over for taillights on my truck...well i got tired of this guy and talked to his supervisor and i was told that he was a rookie trying to make a name for himself and he would talk to him...well he ended up starting graveyard the next shift  i also took my ticket to court and told the judge what he was doing and he said to just park around the corner and not give him any excuse to ticket me and then threw the ticket out

[bigbucks1985]

So after all the hype I met with the officer today and everything was cleared up. It was not my camera that was illegal he was investigating hunters who were deer hunting in a closed gmu in the late season. Everything worked out and it was more a big misunderstanding.

[huntnnw]

I am not buying it.. he had 0 reason to go thru what he did to take your stuff. 113 is open to late Muzzy whitetail season. I think he was trying to cover his ass.

[memilanuk]

If he was investigating someone else, why was he giving you the run-around earlier?  Still seems odd when they pull something like this and then can't provide, in black and white, the specific code/law/regulation you've violated.