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Non-residents Charged With Pheasant Overlimits (Posted Tuesday, November 11, 2003 06:26 AM)
A Fish, Wildlife & Parks investigation into excessive harvest of pheasants has resulted in charges for a pair of non-resident hunters.
Region 6 Game Warden Dave Loewen learned that the suspects, who had been staying in a Glasgow-area motel, were en route to their home state of Wyoming, and coordinated an interception with Region 7 Warden Todd Anderson of Jordan, who stopped the vehicle as it passed through Garfield County.
During the course of his contact with the hunters, Anderson discovered that they were transporting more than 60 pheasants, well above the legal possession limit.
? None of the pheasants had their legs attached, as required by law,? says Loewen, ?so we were unable to determine the sex of the birds.?
Each hunter was charged with illegal possession of pheasants as well as failure to leave evidence of sex attached. The pheasants were seized and donated to the Garfield County Food Bank and bond was collected in the field.
? With pheasants, the law requires hunters to leave at least one leg attached to their birds until they reach their permanent residence,? says Loewen. ?That requirement enables wardens to quickly differentiate between a hen and a rooster in the field.?
Loewen also lamented the gross overharvest of the public?s resource.
? Plain and simple, these guys were taking more than their share of birds,? says the warden
A Fish, Wildlife & Parks investigation into excessive harvest of pheasants has resulted in charges for a pair of non-resident hunters.
Region 6 Game Warden Dave Loewen learned that the suspects, who had been staying in a Glasgow-area motel, were en route to their home state of Wyoming, and coordinated an interception with Region 7 Warden Todd Anderson of Jordan, who stopped the vehicle as it passed through Garfield County.
During the course of his contact with the hunters, Anderson discovered that they were transporting more than 60 pheasants, well above the legal possession limit.
? None of the pheasants had their legs attached, as required by law,? says Loewen, ?so we were unable to determine the sex of the birds.?
Each hunter was charged with illegal possession of pheasants as well as failure to leave evidence of sex attached. The pheasants were seized and donated to the Garfield County Food Bank and bond was collected in the field.
? With pheasants, the law requires hunters to leave at least one leg attached to their birds until they reach their permanent residence,? says Loewen. ?That requirement enables wardens to quickly differentiate between a hen and a rooster in the field.?
Loewen also lamented the gross overharvest of the public?s resource.
? Plain and simple, these guys were taking more than their share of birds,? says the warden
