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00:00When violators violate the law, they will slip, and when they slip, I'm going to be there to
00:17catch them. When she's up, she couldn't get mad, so I want everybody that way. If I'm able to find
00:24this carcass and match up this photo, the guy's going to be red-handed. Hello, John, this is
00:29Nick Brunson, Game Warden with Ladder, Department of Wildlife. How are you? Good. Yeah, it's still
00:33way in there. So you've been here since 4 o'clock this morning? Yeah, and I was passed out. This is
00:40all a signage for me of a pyramid that you kind of don't know where you're at, don't know what direction
00:43you're going. Nevada, a land of extremes. From the Strip to the Summits, it's wild country.
00:58Home to more than 900 species and a way of life worth protecting, preserved for the people
01:06and the wildlife that call it home. One team stands guard. This is Nevada Wild.
01:15I don't know if you can tell how much bigger she is. She's just beautiful. I'm Carrie Kuebner. I am a game biologist for Nevada Department of Wildlife.
01:27I've been in the position now for 22 years. I was the first female game biologist ever hired in the state of Nevada.
01:39So these are the moose collars that we're hoping to deploy out there. We're going to try and get these moose collars on a couple of cow moose that we have located.
01:51These collars just go around the neck of the animal. This is kind of where you've got the battery and satellite. It stores all the GPS there.
02:03And just as a perspective, I have one of our deer collars sitting right here. And this is what we typically put on a mule deer. And here's our moose collars.
02:21You can tell it's a lot bigger animal we're dealing with here. So they should fit our girls quite nicely.
02:38We'll need maybe just throw in a little long range and abanamine in here.
02:43So today we've got our veterinarian Nate LaHue out with us to help monitor the overall health of the moose.
02:49So I'm going to bring two and they have two of each. But I'm going to bring all the drugs in case you decide to go fifth on the mountain.
02:56We only have a very small population of moose in Nevada. We don't have any collars on them. And so by getting some collars on this, this will give us a lot of information about where these moose are going, what kind of habitat they're using, and just start to give us a picture of what moose in Nevada are doing.
03:11In many states across the country, moose are in decline. We want to evaluate the health of moose here in Nevada so we can see, do we have issues to be concerned about?
03:24We know whenever we capture animals that the potential is there to lose animals. And you have to outweigh that risk versus the benefits of the population.
03:35And so with the moose, because it's an iconic species, because there's a lot of public perception around it, and because our population is very small, the pressure is there to really not lose any moose.
03:45These do look like moose tracks, because you can just tell when you come on them, because they just stay right in the bottom. They're just eating where they live.
03:54It wants to track further down the creek.
03:57Yeah, I don't see any brush tracks up here.
04:00Would it be very easy for somebody to come out here with a spotlight at 2 a.m. and shoot an elk and throw it in the back of the truck and drive home?
04:20I think it's happening, and people are under the mentality of shoot, shovel, and shut up, because it's the Wild Wild West. There's only one of me for 8,000 square miles. They know it.
04:34When violators violate the law, they will slip. And when they slip, I'm going to be there to catch them.
04:40My name is Ben Turner. I've been a game warden with Nevada Department of Wildlife for approximately two years.
04:50My responsibilities are covering roughly 8,000 square miles of patrol area as a solo warden.
04:58My closest backup is two hours at best.
05:01At best, I received a tip in the Ely that a hunter was out here hunting for his cow elk.
05:13And during that season, there's a prescribed area that you have to be north of White Pine County Road 35.
05:19And allegedly, he was hunting and harvested his elk south of that prescribed area.
05:25I have pictures that he took of himself with the elk in the location that it was killed at.
05:35So we're just trying to find that carcass so we can confirm where he did kill and harvest that animal.
05:43Finding needles in a haystack out here in the middle of nowhere is damn near impossible.
05:47These are the pictures that I have to match up the area with.
05:53And if I'm able to get in this exact location, there should be a carcass of this elk.
06:00We might get lucky and be able to pull a bullet off of something if the magpies, coyotes and those kind of things haven't picked them apart.
06:08If I'm able to find this carcass and match up this photo, the guy's going to be red handed at that point.
06:14If we find it remotely close, he's going to be 10, 15 miles away from that boundary line.
06:21So he is impacting a herd that's not a herd that we're trying to impact.
06:26That peak straight ahead is that peak right there.
06:30So we're parked somewhere down here.
06:33So the elk carcass should be straight up that draw.
06:36I'm grabbing a more portable metal detector, one that's not as big as a normal one that you would see a beachcomber with so that I can check the carcass for bullet fragments.
06:50So this looks consistent with an ATV track.
06:57You can see the way that the brush is kind of beat down from the tires.
07:01I can almost guarantee you that if we follow this track up, it's going to take us right to that elk.
07:06Hopefully all they did was just debone the animal and all the bones and everything will still be up there.
07:14Unfortunately, they won't be bleached white.
07:15They're going to be old hamburger color and it's going to be really difficult to pick it out in between the wintertime sagebrush and all this grass.
07:25Just got to keep going. Can't just give up because it gets hard.
07:29That slope right there is consistent with this slope and then you have that dead tree right there pretty consistent with that dead tree.
07:45I think we're pretty close to it.
07:53Yep, that's a cow elk.
07:55You can see the hide.
07:58Looks like they took all the bones and everything off the hill.
08:01So all we're going to have to dig through is a hide and maybe some guts.
08:06We are after just cow moose today because we only have callers.
08:09We're going to have to take a quick look around and see if we can come up with anything.
08:13We are after just cow moose today because we only have callers that fit a cow moose.
08:20We're going to make sure that the environment is safe and it's okay to take the shot of either the net gun or the dart gun.
08:29All right, here we go.
08:30All right, here we go.
08:31Who's on a cow with a swim?
08:32Good.
08:33And the moose whispers.
08:34Just let us know if it looks like you can't work her at all.
08:35Nothing.
08:36We're going to get a shot here from here.
08:37We're going to get a shot here from here today because we only have callers that fit a cow moose.
08:38We're going to make sure that the environment is safe and it's okay to take the shot of either the net gun or the dart gun.
08:43It's tough.
09:06You've got to get the animals in safe places.
09:09These animals like to be in the trees and they can't get close enough to get the dart on them if they're going to be in the tall trees.
09:16Okay, we just hit her.
09:22Bounce, bounce, bounce.
09:26I actually couldn't see it real clearly but it was a reasonable shot.
09:30Okay.
09:31Can't really see any signs, but it's got anything.
09:34Still kind of trotting along.
09:37Yeah, I'm thinking it's really fine if they hit her again.
09:42Yeah, it's your discretion, but if you need to hit her again, we're good with that.
09:47Yeah, I think we will.
09:49Still move.
09:50It's pretty good.
09:51The particular dart we are using doesn't appear to be giving the full amount of medication to the moose.
09:58They appear to be bouncing out.
10:00Chances are it hasn't gotten the full dose.
10:02Bouncing off her hide before they get the full injection in her.
10:07Okay, we just hit her again.
10:08It's not a bounce out, but yeah, got her in the back end there, so hopefully it's a goodie.
10:19Set four, thank you.
10:20Still moving pretty quickly through the thicker sage down there.
10:25They've been hit twice now.
10:27So with the amount of tarantulin they got going, it's probably going to run for a little bit.
10:32In order to determine how often to dart and how much medication and that, it really takes all of us.
10:38We're relying a lot on the capture crew and their past experience.
10:43Once you've darted an animal, you have a responsibility to follow through with that
10:47because you wouldn't want anything bad to happen to her.
10:50Yeah, we're kind of wondering if we're losing some of this drug, you know, with these darts,
10:55because they're all bouncing out.
10:56That one's faded longer than the others, but I wonder if they're not getting a full dose here.
11:02Yeah, we're at 11 minutes from the second dart and 24 the first.
11:09She's been moving through a lot of snow.
11:11She's been moving for over half an hour now.
11:13And so when their body temperature gets up and they're nervous and they're running and they're stressed,
11:19they're really at risk for capture myopathy.
11:23Our biggest concern with stress in these animals is what we call capture myopathy.
11:28What happens is these animals become very hot, they are running very hard,
11:33and they get inadequate oxygenation to their muscles, and the muscles kind of cook themselves.
11:39And so there's a lot of different forms of capture myopathy.
11:42And anywhere from where they can die suddenly to whether they can rupture a muscle, you know,
11:48several days after their release, but all comes down to exertion and stress.
11:52So a severe case can result in death.
11:54And so that's one of our biggest concerns.
11:57I mean, part of me is thinking about just saying, forgetting her, and she's already been stressed, moving enough.
12:07My fear is that she's going to go down somewhere where we don't have eyes on her if we leave.
12:25Yeah, exactly. That would be bad.
12:27So the concern is always, how much drug do they get?
12:31How much more should I give?
12:33And you really do not want to leave a partially drugged animal in the landscape.
12:37Yeah, Jonathan, we're just discussing it might be worth getting another 3cc dart ready.
12:44We may have to hit her again here a little bit.
12:47We're thinking a 3 and just get her down.
12:50Doing one more 3cc and trying to get her down.
12:53You know, the nightmare scenario there is we get a partial dose, we don't get the animal down,
13:05and then an hour later, it goes down when nobody's around and dies.
13:09Okay, you guys go ahead.
13:14We don't know how much drug that particular moose has received,
13:19even though we've put a couple of darts in it.
13:21But chances are, it hasn't gotten a full dose.
13:24We need to stay with this particular moose.
13:30Can I wake up at her again?
13:41Yep, that's a cow elk.
13:43You can see the hide and maybe some guts.
13:46That's clear as day, that exact same picture.
13:53Same slope, same slope.
13:55Yep, you got the kill site right there.
13:58And then the animal rolled all the way down to there.
14:01So you see how the dirt is an unnatural color from everything else around.
14:07It's kind of dark and looks like there's some hair matter in there.
14:10My guess is during their gutting process and cleaning process, coyotes feeding on it and everything like that.
14:16It rolled and that's where it ended up laying.
14:20But that's our evidence site and that is our second evidence site.
14:25Right now, I'm going to pull my GPS out so I can document the location of this picture of this kill site.
14:35Me being from the area, I know that his area that he was supposed to be hunting is 30 miles that way.
14:42And it's a completely different herd from what is over here.
14:47And the target of that hunt is to thin down the number out of that herd that's north and not hit this herd that's south.
14:57Because this herd is a very sensitive herd.
14:59There's not as many elk, but I'm going to document everything that I possibly can.
15:05Any more evidence just helps solidify the case so that when it gets brought to the DA, he has no issues pursuing it.
15:14I like to take as many pictures as I possibly can because SD cards are cheap and evidence is priceless.
15:22All it takes is that one picture to solidify the case.
15:26I'm going to take as much hair as evidence as I possibly can.
15:32Because if I have to, I can compare the elk that would be in his freezer to this hair.
15:37We can always send this off to the lab and get a DNA analysis comparison.
15:45Next step is I'm going to start looking for a bullet or bullet fragments.
15:51Because if we can find brass, we can tie it to the gun he used.
15:59It'd be really nice to get an intact bullet.
16:01But with the way that this hunter pulled all the bones off the hill, he pulled all the meat off the hill, I don't have high hopes that I'm going to find a bullet.
16:12Shot in the dark, but even a blind squirrel finds a nut from time to time.
16:19Last things last, let's check the hide.
16:21That hole is consistent with a bullet hole right here.
16:31That hole is consistent with a bullet hole right here.
16:59I'm getting a small sound, but I don't know if it's getting interference from something else.
17:13Because it's not in a spot where a bullet would be, but I'm getting a consistent ping in this area.
17:20It's not coming off the ground, but I mean this thing, it can pick up metal pretty good.
17:30I'm just not getting that really strong hit.
17:42There's nowhere in this hide though that a bullet could be lodged.
17:45It is so thin.
17:47The guy did a really good job cutting it away from the animal.
17:53Now that it's been out in the sun for two weeks, it's pretty petrified.
18:03I'm just trying to cut back some hair so I can get a little bit more exposure to the hide.
18:10Let's see if there's something lodged in there or not.
18:16Elk hair, man.
18:17It is thick.
18:18There's a reason they make flies out of it for fly fishing.
18:22It looks like we have some blood in here, but there's typically a lot more of a hole if a bullet did enter here.
18:35Yeah, there might be the smallest piece of bullet in there, but even if there is, there's not enough evidence off of a small bullet like that to be able to tie it to a weapon.
18:49Let me go ahead and clean my knife off so I don't put it away dirty, right?
18:54Pack up.
18:55I'm glad we finally found it.
19:12They've just used three darts and I have no idea what that's going to do.
19:19It looks like she's almost ready to lay down.
19:21May have just gone down.
19:23I'm not sure.
19:24She might have just gone down.
19:27Okay.
19:28Yeah, it looks like she's slowing.
19:30I'm sorry, this cow's been running for quite a while.
19:33Took her three darts to go all the way down.
19:35She's probably hot.
19:37She's had a lot of muscle stress.
19:39We just want to get some oxygen into her and we want to do the minimum we can then get out and let her get reversed and help her recover.
19:46It's the only way I can get behind you is to get a heart rate.
20:08Her heart rate's 48.
20:09What was that, Tim?
20:10103.
20:11Heard that.
20:12Looks good.
20:21From the blood, we can learn a lot of different things.
20:24We'll learn about trace minerals and what's in their system to see the overall health of the animal.
20:30She's still at 48 heart rate and she's not lactating, which isn't surprising because you didn't see a cow.
20:37How come you don't have a baby?
20:39She's like, boys are hard to find out here.
20:43Slim pickings.
20:45What was that second temp?
20:47It was 104.
20:48104.
20:49She's getting a little hotter.
20:50Let's get a reverse here as soon as we can.
20:51Okay.
20:52I got the reversals ready.
20:53Just when she's up, she couldn't get mad.
20:54So I want everybody that way because she's going to probably get up pretty quick.
21:11And if Pam was all I was in.
21:12Oh, good.
21:13She's picking up her head.
21:14Good girl.
21:15Oh, as soon as I turned it off, she got up.
21:16Yeah, that was great.
21:17That was nice reversal.
21:18Good job, guys.
21:19This, hands down, was probably the most exciting days in my career.
21:34Good girl.
21:35We weren't even sure we were going to be able to find any today.
21:38To have it all come together and go as successfully as it did, it was just a really awesome project.
21:44It's going to definitely be one of the days I remember as a highlight of my career.
21:49Not as hot as I thought she might be.
21:52So that was really nice to see.
21:55She had to get up to 104, but that was the max.
21:58You know, putting your tags in and stuff, she was relatively calm.
22:01Yeah, and I think we can expect that we're all not going to be that calm.
22:04Uh-huh.
22:05But that was really nice to see.
22:07I picked a good one.
22:08Very nice.
22:09We're going to head out into Unit 222.
22:24We've got some cow elk hunts going on up there.
22:27We're going to kind of try to contact some people and just kind of see what we get into today.
22:34What's going on at 153?
22:37Hey, it's John Anderson.
22:38How are you?
22:39Hey, good.
22:40I'm kind of up in the 150 area.
22:44Didn't catch what was going on.
22:45Do you need me to respond to anything?
22:47Thanks, Mike.
22:52So in scanning Lincoln County Sheriff's Department's channels, I overheard a call.
22:58It's relatively close to where we're at, vehicle accident, unknown injuries.
23:05I'm going to try to get there as quick as I can and see what we got.
23:08I think I can get there before a lot of other first responders and I can determine what's
23:13going on and whether additional resources are going to be needed.
23:17We have a lot of elk that cross right in that area.
23:25So it's very possible it's a collision with an elk.
23:30I actually hit a deer right there in this patrol vehicle four years ago.
23:39Sounds like medical just arrived on scene.
23:47How's it going?
24:13How's it going?
24:14How's it going?
24:15She won't get me out of line.
24:16She won't get me out of line.
24:17She won't get me out of line.
24:18Is she intoxicated?
24:19She took up pretty bad.
24:22The people on scene are telling me that she's confused.
24:26I need to determine if that's because of possible drug use or alcohol use.
24:32What may be going on that's causing her to act erratically.
24:35How are you doing, man?
24:36Good.
24:37I'm .
24:38So last night it was around 4 in the morning and either my tire blew,
24:43look at my tire because my car just went out of control.
24:46But I did see a truck behind me with strip lights for a couple of minutes.
24:52But I don't know what caused me to go off the side of the road like this.
24:55Did you see any deer or elk or anything?
24:57OK.
24:58Had you been drinking at all?
24:59No.
25:00Nothing.
25:01So these guys got to get on their way.
25:03So we'll just have you finish the refusal and then...
25:05I already signed the refusal.
25:06You did?
25:07So you're good to go?
25:08OK.
25:09It's confusing me a little bit that she's refusing all medical treatment.
25:14I can tell the medical staff that are on scene would like to transport her.
25:18But she has the right to refuse medical treatment.
25:21So it's just concerning me a little bit the way she's acting.
25:27Are you walking OK?
25:29Yeah, I'm totally sore.
25:31OK.
25:32So you've been here since 4 o'clock this morning?
25:34Yeah, and I was passed out.
25:36She's been here since 4 in the morning.
25:38She refused medical.
25:39You don't want to get transported?
25:41No, no, no.
25:42Are you sure?
25:43I'm positive, sir.
25:44OK.
25:45We're going to tow your vehicle.
25:46Where are you headed to?
25:47I'm going to Salt Lake.
25:48Salt Lake?
25:49Yeah, yeah.
25:50OK.
25:51Are you on any prescription medication or anything like that?
25:53Yeah, it's good.
25:54Yeah.
25:55I haven't taken my prescription since last night.
25:58Probably around 11 PM.
26:00That's 11 PM.
26:01You OK if I see the prescription medication you're on and stuff like that?
26:04Oh, I don't have the bottle with me.
26:05It's at home.
26:06Are you OK to be driving with it though?
26:07It doesn't impair you or anything like that?
26:08I got just questions I got to ask.
26:10You know it.
26:11It doesn't impair me at all.
26:12Where are you coming from today?
26:13From Salt Lake.
26:14So you're coming from Salt Lake to go where?
26:16I was going to go see my friend in Vegas.
26:19Do you know what direction you were traveling?
26:21I was going to Vegas.
26:23You were going to Vegas from Salt Lake.
26:24Yeah, yeah.
26:25I drove through Cedar City.
26:26Yeah.
26:27OK.
26:28Do you want to sit in the back of my car where the heater's on to stay warm?
26:31Would that work for you?
26:32Sure.
26:34We'll get to talk some more.
26:35You have something, OK?
26:36Highway Patrol.
26:39Wow, your car is messy.
26:41Yeah.
26:42We're going to have a sit right there.
26:43What the heck is back here?
26:45That's school stuff for the kids.
26:47Lanier and stuff like that.
26:48That's sweet.
26:49So it's a good type of messy, right?
26:51Eleven o'clock last night, we left Salt Lake.
26:54Mm-hmm.
26:55Went through Cedar.
26:56Right now...
26:57Did I take a wrong turn?
26:58Yeah, because this is what we're looking at and why I'm confused.
27:01It's just weird that you're going towards Salt Lake right now.
27:04Right.
27:05You're going northbound.
27:06You were going from Salt Lake to Vegas.
27:07Well, I don't know where I went off the side of the road.
27:10You know what I mean?
27:11But you see right now you're traveling northbound towards Salt Lake
27:14when you said you want to go towards Vegas, right?
27:16Right.
27:17So this is all signs for me of impairment that you kind of don't know where you're at,
27:20like that, don't know what direction you're going.
27:36Hello, John.
27:37This is Nick Brunson, game warden with the Ladder Department of Wildlife.
27:39How are you?
27:40Good.
27:41Yeah, it's still way in there.
27:42It hasn't moved a foot.
27:44It actually put down, but I didn't want to put it down without you seeing it.
27:48I'm not so sure that, you know, it's an accident.
27:52Absolutely no.
27:53John, I'm actually out in the area.
27:55I'm right here.
27:56Okay.
27:57I'll be out and meet you.
27:58Okay.
27:59That sounds good.
28:00Thanks, John.
28:01Uh-huh.
28:02So I just received a call about a deer that is injured out in Spring Creek.
28:08The caller knows something's not right with the deer.
28:10He says it's been there for quite a while and it's not moving very much.
28:14I mean, kind of all throughout Spring Creek, we've had problems with people feeding deer
28:18and it just, it causes major problems for a lot of those animals.
28:24How you doing?
28:25How are you, John?
28:28Well, I appreciate you calling and we'll take care of this thing.
28:31I just, I watched him try to get up and it looks like, I don't know.
28:36No, I don't know if it's got some sort of.
28:38If you look on the back.
28:39Yeah.
28:40It looks like the fender of a car or something.
28:42It must've got hit and then it's just.
28:44I've been crying for an hour.
28:45Oh man, I can imagine.
28:46I feel, I feel bad.
28:48We don't enjoy coming out and having to euthanize animals, but at the same time, I don't know
28:53that he'd be able to survive.
28:55I think you got to put it down.
28:56Yeah.
28:57My dog went over and ran around it in circles a couple times and it wouldn't get up.
29:02It wouldn't even get up.
29:03Yeah.
29:04Like I say, I mean, shoot with me walking right here, right next to it.
29:07I mean, if it was able to get up and walk off on its own recognizance, it would have done
29:11that, but it didn't.
29:12Right.
29:13I know that in the past, we've had people that have fed deer in this area.
29:17John, do you know if there's, if there's people still feeding deer out here?
29:21It's that tan place there.
29:24Uh-huh.
29:25I'm not so sure that he's still feeding them or eating them.
29:28Yeah.
29:29He's going to say, I know we've had problems with somebody right up here in the past.
29:33Yeah.
29:34I can always look at that too.
29:35That guy was feeding for a while.
29:36A lot of times with people feeding deer and bringing these deer into all this, this housing
29:42area out in Spring Creek, with the deer coming in, the predators are going to follow the deer
29:47in.
29:48For this deer, I'm making the decision to dispatch him.
29:50If I was to let him go in his current state, he's probably going to suffer a pretty long,
29:55slow and painful death.
29:56And so it's just a better all around for this animal.
29:59Just if I was to dispatch him, put him out of that pain and suffering.
30:04What I'll do is I'll just put it down and then move my truck up here and I'll just load
30:07it in the back of my truck and haul it out.
30:09Well, I'm going to go inside.
30:11I appreciate it.
30:12Thank you, John.
30:13Okay.
30:14If you end up seeing anybody that's feeding, give me a call and let me know.
30:18Cause I'd love to come out and talk to them.
30:20Thanks, John.
30:21Usually walking this close to a deer, it should get up and walk off on its own recognizance.
30:26It's a young deer.
30:27I would almost think that this was last year's fawn.
30:30And with an injury back there to the spine like that, it doesn't seem that this deer
30:34is going to be able to get up on its feet.
30:35So it'll most likely die a slow, painful death.
30:38And euthanizing it will, you know, be the best outcome for this animal.
30:44Or, you know, 24-0-8-0-0.
30:48Could you call the county and just let them know that there are going to be shots fired
30:51out here?
30:52So right now you're traveling northbound towards Salt Lake when you said you want to go towards
31:19Vegas, right?
31:20Right.
31:21So this is all signs for me of a pyramid that you kind of don't know where he's at,
31:24don't know what direction you're going.
31:26No, I know what direction you're going.
31:28What direction were you going?
31:29Northbound or south?
31:30Well, I went through Cedar City and I was going towards the gate.
31:34I mean, this is the middle of nowhere.
31:35And it's not even the most direct route from Las Vegas to Salt Lake City if she's going either way.
31:42And she said she was in Cedar last night, which means she turned west randomly and came out here.
31:47So just to keep you warm, we're going to close the door and we'll get back with you here in a minute, okay?
31:54So she's changed her story three times already.
31:56She's going northbound, but she's going to Vegas, went through Cedar.
31:59Yeah, she said she was going to Salt Lake and she changed it and said she's going from Salt Lake to Vegas.
32:03And she went through Cedar City.
32:04I don't trust her in my vehicle.
32:05When I walked up, she bailed out of the car.
32:06Get away from me, don't touch me.
32:07Don't touch me.
32:08Don't touch me.
32:09Yeah, there's something going on.
32:10It's not adding up.
32:24When I walked up, she bailed out of the car.
32:29Get away from me, don't touch me.
32:30Yeah, there's something going on.
32:32It's not adding up.
32:33The closest town I can get you is to Caliani.
32:36Do you have anybody that we can call that can come pick you up?
32:39Yeah.
32:40There is?
32:41Yes.
32:49I'm going to go look around the vehicle.
32:51My car went off the side of the road.
32:55I think my pirate floated last night.
32:58She gave us consent to search, so we're just going to try to put the pieces together and make sure there's not, you know, a more serious medical issue that we're dealing with that we haven't figured out yet.
33:07So is there any way that you could come and get me?
33:13Oh, thank you.
33:16She's no luggage if you're going to Vegas.
33:18She is not making sense.
33:22She's doing things that are erratic, and we need to figure out if that's because of a brain injury or if she's having a mental issue.
33:31How are you doing, man?
33:32Are you upset?
33:33I'm really upset.
33:34I understand why you are.
33:35You do?
33:36Yeah.
33:37Absolutely.
33:38If I had wrecked at 4 o'clock in the morning and I sat out here by myself all night long, that can get kind of scary because you're in the middle of nowhere.
33:44I'm in the middle of nowhere.
33:45I'm in the middle of nowhere.
33:46I don't know how.
33:47Yeah.
33:48Are you feeling okay, though?
33:49Yeah.
33:50I mean, it's not like I'm dying or anything.
33:51Right.
33:52Right.
33:53I mean.
33:54My nerves are just like, yeah.
33:55Yeah.
33:56Extremely like.
33:57Yeah.
33:58Ma'am, when you wrecked at 4 o'clock in the morning, how come you didn't call for help right away?
34:03I went out.
34:04And for hours?
34:05Yeah.
34:06My head hit beside it.
34:07It ripped off my eyelashes out.
34:08My eyelashes.
34:09I see that.
34:10Yes.
34:11There was eyelashes all over and something.
34:12So it knocked you out for multiple hours.
34:13Yes.
34:14And I was on the passenger side.
34:15I think you need medical attention, though.
34:16It was not.
34:17It's not good.
34:18I was on the passenger side.
34:19When you wrecked.
34:20No, no, no.
34:21When I woke up.
34:22Can I look at your eyes real quick?
34:23I was checking.
34:24I was checking.
34:25I was checking.
34:26I was checking.
34:27I was checking.
34:28I was checking.
34:29I was checking.
34:30I was checking.
34:31I was checking.
34:32I was checking.
34:33I was checking.
34:34I was checking to see if your pupils are dilated differently,
34:37like a sign of concussion or anything like that.
34:39I'm not seeing it.
34:41Ma'am, if there's anything going on, if you're scared,
34:44we're the guys that can help you out, OK?
34:46Of course, I'm kind of scared.
34:48Like I said, I saw a truck with lights, and I was like,
34:51is this guy following me?
34:52Because it was for miles.
34:53Yeah.
34:54So I turn around, and I'm thinking in my head, OK,
34:56I'll be able to tell if he's following me.
34:58You know what I mean?
34:59Sure.
35:00Turn around.
35:01Absolutely.
35:02And he told us that when he first came up,
35:04that you were like, get away from me.
35:06Your family's big.
35:07Why was that?
35:08Because he was a big man.
35:09He is kind of a big man.
35:11Big man.
35:12Yeah.
35:13And I'm in the middle of nowhere.
35:14You know what I mean?
35:15No, I would totally understand that.
35:16Yeah.
35:17I didn't call him, so I was just like,
35:18whoa, look at my tire.
35:19Yeah.
35:20That looks bad.
35:21I mean, you saw the stuff that you went through.
35:24That sagebrush, and you're really lucky.
35:27A lot of times when people go off the road,
35:29their front tires dig in, and then they start flipping.
35:33I'm just glad you're OK.
35:34I'm glad I'm OK, too.
35:35So I'll check in on you, maybe tomorrow,
35:38just to make sure that you're getting where you need to go.
35:40OK.
35:41OK?
35:42We're about 30 minutes from Pioch.
35:44I want to make sure you have a hotel.
35:45I'm going to show you where the food's at,
35:46because I'm sure you're hungry being out here that long.
35:48I'm starving.
35:49I'll get you some food, and we'll get you going, OK?
35:52At least I know the course of the past
35:54kind of may be upset and I'm sorry.
35:55I'm just trying to make sure everything's OK, all right?
35:59You deal with this stuff more than I do,
36:01but it's not adding up.
36:02There's nothing you can do.
36:03Sometimes it doesn't.
36:04Sometimes it doesn't.
36:06But there's nothing illegal against not making sense.
36:10Making sense and not being in your right mind.
36:12Yeah.
36:16I'm a little worried about if she really got knocked out,
36:18and she's in the passenger seat when she wakes up.
36:21Yeah.
36:22Like, I know she refused medical,
36:23but I looked at her eyes.
36:24They're not dilated different like a concussion,
36:26and she's tracking really well.
36:28She's not throwing up.
36:29We're busy passing out right now.
36:30Yeah.
36:31All right.
36:33Appreciate it.
36:34Yep.
36:35Yep.
36:36This deer most likely got hit by a vehicle,
36:39and it was probably coming into an individual feeding deer
36:44that's out here in this area.
36:45And it's a terrible scenario.
36:47It shouldn't have had to have been euthanized.
36:50I mean, it's a shame.
36:52Body condition-wise, this deer's not in poor condition.
36:56So that's another thing that leads me to believe
37:00that this animal was hit by a vehicle
37:01versus having some sort of a disease.
37:03A lot of times with the disease,
37:04you'll be able to see the deer's rib cage,
37:06backbone sticking out,
37:07just really kind of withering away, you know?
37:09It doesn't look like it has that.
37:11It just can't get onto its feet.
37:14I already know I'm clear that last residence,
37:16one deer euthanized.
37:17I'm going to be 10-8 in the area
37:19to talk with some of these property owners
37:21and see if anybody's feeding wildlife in the area.
37:23It aggravates me that I have to euthanize deer out here.
37:27That could have been completely avoided,
37:28but obviously there's somebody that's out here
37:30in this area that's still doing
37:32and doing that.
37:33And I'm really kind of withering away,
37:34you know?
37:35It doesn't look like it has that.
37:36It just can't get onto its feet.
37:38I already know I'm clear that last residence,
37:39one deer euthanized.
37:40I'm going to be 10-8 in the area
37:42to talk with some of these property owners
37:43and see if anybody's feeding wildlife in the area.
37:44They're still feeding deer.
37:47The house that we're just pulling up to now
37:49was the one that had been feeding deer in the past.
37:51I'm going to go in and talk with this individual
37:53and see if they're feeding the deer.
37:55And if they are, then I'll be getting a ticket from me.
38:01Hey, Game Warden, Nick Brunson.
38:02How are you?
38:03Oh, I'm OK.
38:04So I just put down a deer over in John's yard.
38:06You guys wouldn't happen to be feeding deer anymore,
38:09are you?
38:14No.
38:15I know you guys have been talked to in the past, right?
38:16Yeah.
38:17By us?
38:18Yeah.
38:19But you guys haven't been feeding them.
38:20We don't feed them no more.
38:21OK.
38:22OK.
38:23Very good.
38:24I certainly appreciate it.
38:25You guys have a good one.
38:27OK.
38:29I haven't seen anything in their front yard
38:31or around the side of the house that makes me think
38:33that they're still feeding deer,
38:35whether it's like a pile of hay or some grain buckets
38:38or anything like that.
38:39But I'm going to go over here to one of their neighbors,
38:42and I'm going to talk to them and tell them
38:44that they're still feeding deer.
38:45But they are feeding deer,
38:46they're just lying to me about it.
38:47Hello, State Game Warden.
38:48How are you?
38:49Hi.
38:50I'm Nick Brunson.
38:51I'm a Game Warden with Nevada Department of Wildlife.
38:52How are you doing?
38:53Not doing too bad.
38:54I just put down a deer back out over here.
38:55I was just wondering, do you guys happen to know
38:56if there's anybody in the area that comes to the area
38:58that could be used to be feeding deer?
38:59And I'm not going to talk to them.
39:00They're still feeding deer,
39:01whether it's like a pile of hay or some grain buckets
39:03or anything like that.
39:04But I'm going to go over here to one of their neighbors,
39:06and I'm going to talk to them because there's still
39:08potential that they are feeding deer.
39:09They are just lying to me about it.
39:10I found a deer back out over here.
39:11I was just wondering, do you guys happen to know
39:13if there's anybody in the area
39:15that could potentially be feeding deer,
39:18putting feed out for deer?
39:19No, there's nobody that I know of.
39:22Okay.
39:26Who, who?
39:27This guy next door.
39:28Oh, this guy next door, okay.
39:29You haven't seen him feeding here recently?
39:31Okay, okay.
39:34If you do see anybody feeding deer in the area,
39:37would you mind calling me just to let me know?
39:39Because I would love to come out
39:40and just try to educate people and let them know.
39:43There's still plenty of places
39:44where the deer can get their own natural food.
39:46Okay. Right, well.
39:47I certainly appreciate it.
39:49Okay.
39:50Have a good one.
39:51Yep, thank you, you too.
39:56The individual that was feeding the deer in the past,
39:59his neighbor next door to him,
40:01it even said that he wasn't feeding deer anymore.
40:04So, there is a potential that he's telling the truth,
40:07but I'd like to come back at a later date
40:09and talk with some of the other neighbors out here.
40:16People that feed wildlife feel that they're filling a role
40:19for those deer.
40:20And even when they've been given warnings in the past,
40:23we've had people that we've had to go back to
40:27and write them tickets
40:28because they just can't stop doing it.
40:31And for anybody that thinks that the deer are in need
40:33of their help, they're fooling themselves
40:35because they survived long before men, you know,
40:39ever came into this country.
40:40So, I can't stress that enough to people
40:43that are feeding them that it's,
40:45it causes more harm than it does helping.
40:48to keep them alive.
40:55Euthanizing something is probably the worst part
40:58about being a game warden.
40:59But in instances like this deer today,
41:02it's more humane to put that animal down
41:06than it is to let it get eaten alive by coyotes
41:09or just die a slow, painful death.
41:12It'll be fed on by predators and birds
41:14and things of that nature so it's still playing a an important role in nature that's something
41:19that i can i can be happy with is that it's going to provide food for others
41:44you
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