Although the Cook County News-Herald knows that the majority
of sportsmen and women are law-abiding folks, there are a few
that run afoul of the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources
(DNR) Conservation Officers. Periodically, the DNR provides a
report of some of the miscreants the Conservation Officers (CO)
have encountered. The News-Herald shares these stories as a
reminder to all to be safe and to follow the rules!
CO Darin Fagerman (Grand Marais)
dealt with a couple of fellows who were dumping household garbage in the woods. When asked why they were doing it, one fellow stated that the wayside rest that they had been dumping garbage at had closed for the year. He also took a couple of calls on some pretty tough deer hit by vehicles. One was loaded into a back of a pickup. When the man got to the area he was going to field dress it, the deer stood up in the back of the pickup, jumped out and took off.The man called the CO and canceled the road kill permit. Thesecond man called the CO and asked him for a road-kill permit for a big 10-point buck that he struck with his truck. The CO told him to take the deer and he would meet him at his residence. The man called back about 10 minutes later and said that when he backed up to load the deer it ran off.
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