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Big Game Hunting => Elk Hunting => Topic started by: TheHunt on August 21, 2015, 12:34:20 PM

Title: % increase of tresspassing offenses this season
Post by: TheHunt on August 21, 2015, 12:34:20 PM: 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?
Title: Re: % increase of tresspassing offenses this season
Post by: huntingfool7 on August 21, 2015, 05:56:45 PM: Gear and rigs taken away for trespassing?
Title: Re: % increase of tresspassing offenses this season
Post by: rtspring on August 21, 2015, 06:09:47 PM: Im thinking if they come on my property I wont need the sheriff or the judge..
Title: Re: % increase of tresspassing offenses this season
Post by: buckcanyonlodge on August 21, 2015, 07:21:23 PM: 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!!!
Title: Re: % increase of tresspassing offenses this season
Post by: Wanttohuntmore on August 22, 2015, 07:24:04 AM: 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.
Title: Re: % increase of tresspassing offenses this season
Post by: bigtex on August 23, 2015, 09:23:34 AM: Quote from: buckcanyonlodge on August 21, 2015, 07:21:23 PM
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....
Title: Re: % increase of tresspassing offenses this season
Post by: bigtex on August 23, 2015, 09:26:14 AM: 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.
Title: Re: % increase of tresspassing offenses this season
Post by: MountainWalk on August 23, 2015, 09:56:46 AM: 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.
Title: Re: % increase of tresspassing offenses this season
Post by: mfswallace on August 23, 2015, 10:56:21 AM: Quote from: buckcanyonlodge on August 21, 2015, 07:21:23 PM
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 :yike: Seems a violation and especially a conviction of the laws of ones own agency should preclude said individual from working for agency :twocents: 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....
Title: Re: % increase of tresspassing offenses this season
Post by: jdb on August 23, 2015, 11:19:17 AM: 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