CO Darin Fagerman (Grand Marais) answered questions about the legality of recreational bear feeding and the upcoming bear and deer seasons. The feeling of fall is starting to creep in. A few berry pickers were out during the week as were some hunters starting to scout for bear bait stations.
CO Mary Manning (Grand Marais East) helped teach firearms and defensive tactics at the annual fall in-service training at Camp Ripley.
CO Thomas Wahlstrom (Tofte) spent the week teaching use of force and firearms tactics at Camp Ripley.
CO Don Murray (Two Harbors) handled nuisance bear and wolf activity reports, and a dead eagle call was investigated and found to be a natural death.
CO Chris Vinton (Perham) received a call of someone operating an RC boat and using it to harass loons on an area lake.
CO Paul Nelson (Elbow Lake) checked calls on a badger digging in someone’s driveway.
CO Scott Fitzgerald (Malmo) assisted a neighboring officer with a call of an ATV operator who had called 911 because he was stuck in a wetland. Officers were able to assist with getting the ATV out but there was enforcement action for various ATV violations.
CO Mark Fredin (Aurora) was called to a home where the homeowner stated she heard two loud shots by the road and the next day saw a crow hanging dead from a tree behind her home, so concluded someone shot over her house. Fredin spoke to the neighbor across the road who stated he blasted a hornet’s nest out of a tree – the dead crow was just coincidental.
CO Jeremy Henke (Albert Lea) investigated the suspicious death of a deer; it was determined to be a roadkill that had been moved and the meat harvested. Henke reminds everyone that a permit is needed to take or transport a roadkill animal and permission is also needed to dump the remains on private property.
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!
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