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00:00When violators violate the law, they will slip.
00:10And when they slip, I'm going to be there to catch them.
00:13When she's up, she couldn't get mad.
00:14So I want everybody that way.
00:17If I'm able to find this carcass and match up this photo,
00:21the guy's going to be red-handed.
00:23Hello, John.
00:24This is Nick Brunson, game warden
00:25with the ladder, Department of Wildlife.
00:26How are you?
00:27Good.
00:28Yeah, it's still way in there.
00:29So you've been here since 4 o'clock this morning?
00:33Yeah, and I was passed out.
00:35This is all the silence for me of a pyramid
00:36that you kind of don't know where you're at,
00:38don't know what direction you're going.
00:45Nevada, a land of extremes.
00:50From the strip to the summits, it's wild country,
00:54home to more than 900 species and a way of life worth protecting.
00:59preserved for the people and the wildlife that call it home.
01:04One team stands guard.
01:07This is Nevada wild.
01:13This is Nevada wild.
01:17You can't tell how much bigger she is.
01:28She looks a lot bigger than the other cows.
01:31I'm Carrie Kuebner.
01:33I am a game biologist for Nevada Department of Wildlife.
01:36I've been in the position now for 22 years.
01:42I was the first female game biologist ever hired in the state of Nevada.
01:47So these are the moose collars that we're hoping to deploy out there.
01:54We're going to try and get these moose collars on a couple of cow moose that we have located.
02:02These collars just go around the neck of the animal.
02:05This is kind of where you've got the battery and satellite.
02:08It stores all the GPS there.
02:10And just as a perspective, I have one of our deer collars sitting right here.
02:15And this is what we typically put on a mule deer.
02:19And here's our moose collars.
02:20You can tell it's a lot bigger animal we're dealing with here.
02:24So they should fit our girls quite nicely.
02:26We'll need maybe just throw in a little Long Range and Abanamine in here.
02:39So today we've got our veterinarian Nate LaHue out with us to help monitor the overall health of the moose.
02:45So I'm going to bring two and they have two of each.
02:48But I'm going to bring all the drugs in case you decide to go a fifth on the mountain.
02:51We only have a very small population of moose in Nevada.
02:55We don't have any collars on them.
02:57And so by getting some collars on this, this will give us a lot of information
03:00about where these moose are going, what kind of habitat they're using,
03:04and 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.
03:14We want to evaluate the health of moose here in Nevada so we can see,
03:18do we have issues to be concerned about?
03:20We know whenever we capture animals that the potential is there.
03:24to lose animals.
03:25And you have to outweigh that risk versus the benefits of the population.
03:32And so with the moose, because it's an iconic species,
03:34because there's a lot of public perception around it,
03:37and because our population is very small,
03:39the pressure is there to really not lose any moose.
03:42These do look like moose tracks, because you can just tell when you come on them,
03:45because they just stay right in the bottom.
03:47They're just eating where they live.
03:50It works the tracks further down the creek.
03:53Yeah, I don't see these rush tracks up here.
04:06Would it be very easy for somebody to come out here with a spotlight at 2am and shoot an elk,
04:14and throw it in the back of the truck, and drive home?
04:17I think it's happening, and people are under the mentality of shoot, shovel, and shut up,
04:23because it's the wild, wild west.
04:25There's only one of me for 8,000 square miles.
04:28They know it.
04:29When violators violate the law, they will slip, and when they slip,
04:33I'm going to be there to catch them.
04:38My name is Ben Turner.
04:39I've been a game warden with Nevada Department of Wildlife for approximately two years.
04:46My responsibilities are covering roughly 8,000 square miles of patrol area as a solo warden.
04:54My closest backup is two hours at best.
04:57I received a tip in the Ely that a hunter was out here hunting for his cow elk,
05:08and during that season, there's a prescribed area that you have to be north of White Pine County Road 35,
05:14and allegedly, he was hunting and harvested his elk south of that prescribed area.
05:21I have pictures that he took of himself with the elk in the location that it was killed at,
05:31so we're just trying to find that carcass so we can confirm where he did kill and harvest that animal.
05:38Finding needles in a haystack out here in the middle of nowhere is damn near impossible.
05:44These are the pictures that I have to match up the area with,
05:49and if I'm able to get in this exact location, there should be a carcass of this elk.
05:55We might get lucky and be able to pull a bullet off of something if the magpies,
06:00coyotes, and those kind of things haven't picked them apart.
06:03If I'm able to find this carcass and match up this photo, the guy's going to be red-handed at that point.
06:10If we find it remotely close, he's going to be 10, 15 miles away from that boundary line,
06:17so he is impacting a herd that's not a herd that we're trying to impact.
06:22That peak straight ahead is that peak right there, so we're parked somewhere down here,
06:28so the elk carcass should be straight up that draw.
06:33I'm grabbing a more portable metal detector, one that's not as big as a normal one that
06:40you would see a beachcomber with, so that I can check the carcass for bullet fragments.
06:49So this looks consistent with an ATV track.
06:53You can see the way that the brush is kind of beat down from the tires.
06:57I can almost guarantee you that if we follow this track up, it's going to take us right to that elk.
07:02Hopefully all they did was just debone the animal and all the bones and everything will still be up there.
07:10Unfortunately, they won't be bleached white. They're going to be old hamburger color,
07:14and it's going to be really difficult to pick it out in between the wintertime sagebrush and all this grass.
07:22Just got to keep going. Can't just give up because it gets hard.
07:25That slope right there is consistent with this slope, and then you have that dead tree right there.
07:37Pretty consistent with that dead tree. I think we're pretty close to it.
07:49Yep, that's a cow elk. You can see the hide.
07:52Looks like they took all the bones and everything off the hill.
07:56So all we're going to have to dig through is a hide and maybe some guts.
08:22Sure. Yep, we can take a quick look around and see if we can come up with anything.
08:27We are after just cow moose today because we only have collars that fit a cow moose.
08:33We're going to make sure that the environment is safe and it's okay to take the shot of either
08:38the net gun or the dart gun.
08:46All right, here we go.
08:47Who's on a cow with a twin?
08:49Yeah, there's a moose whisperer.
08:54Just let us know if it looks like you can't work her at all.
08:57Nothing, we're going to stop here from the .
09:00It's tough. You've got to get the animals in safe places.
09:04These animals like to be in the trees and they can't get close enough to get the dart
09:09on them if they're going to be in the tall trees.
09:16Okay, we just hit her.
09:20It bounced. It bounced down.
09:23I actually couldn't see it real clearly, but it was a reasonable shot.
09:25Okay.
09:26Can't really see any signs.
09:29Do they just start anything?
09:31I feel kind of trotting along.
09:32Yeah, I'm thinking I'm totally fine if I hit her again.
09:38Yeah, it's your discretion, but if you need to hit her again, we're good with that.
09:42Yeah, I think we will.
09:44She's still moving pretty darn good.
09:46The particular dart we are using doesn't appear to be giving the full amount of medication to the moose.
09:53They appear to be bouncing out. Chances are it hasn't gotten the full dose.
09:58Bouncing off her hide before they get the full injection in her.
10:06Okay, we just had her again.
10:08It's not a bounce out, but yeah, got her in the back end there.
10:12So hopefully it's ready.
10:13Set for, thank you.
10:17Still moving pretty quickly through the thicker sage down there.
10:20In order to determine how often to dart and how much medication and that, it really takes all of us.
10:33We're relying a lot on the capture crew and their past experience.
10:38Once you've darted an animal, you have a responsibility to follow through with that
10:42because you wouldn't want anything bad to happen to her.
10:45Yeah, we're kind of wondering if we're losing some of the strut, you know, with these darts,
10:50because they're all bouncing out.
10:52That one's faded longer than the others, but I wonder if they're not getting the full dose here.
10:57Yeah, we're at 11 minutes from the second dart and 24 the first.
11:05She's been moving through a lot of snow. She's been moving for over half an hour now.
11:08And so when their body temperature gets up and they're nervous and they're running and they're stressed,
11:15they're really at risk for capture myopathy.
11:18Our biggest concern with stress in these animals is what we call capture myopathy.
11:23What happens is these animals become very hot.
11:26They are running very hard and they get inadequate oxygenation to their muscles.
11:32And the muscles kind of cook themselves. And so there's a lot of different forms of capture myopathy.
11:38And anywhere from where they can die suddenly to whether they can rupture a muscle, you know,
11:44several days after they're released, but all comes down to exertion and stress.
11:48So severe case can result in death. And so that's one of our biggest concerns.
11:53I mean, part of me is thinking about just saying, forgetting her,
11:57and she's already been stressed moving enough.
12:02Uh, my fear is if she's going to go down somewhere, we don't have eyes on her if we leave.
12:21Yeah, exactly. I don't see that.
12:24So the concern is always how much drug do they get? How much more should I give?
12:28And you really do not want to leave a partially drugged animal in the landscape.
12:33Yeah, Jonathan, we're just discussing it might be worth getting another three cc dart ready.
12:40We may have to have to hit her again here a little bit.
12:43We're thinking a three and just get her down.
12:46Doing one more three cc and trying to get her down.
12:49I think we need to do something to take a long time now.
12:52You know, the nightmare scenario there is we get a partial dose, we don't get the animal down,
13:00and then an hour later, it goes down when nobody's around and dies.
13:05OK, you guys go ahead.
13:10We don't know how much drug that particular moose has received,
13:15even though we've put a couple of darts in it. But chances are, it hasn't gotten a full dose.
13:19We need to stay with this particular moose.
13:36Yep, that's a cow elk. You can see the hide and maybe some guts.
13:42That's clear as day, that exact same picture. Same slope, same slope.
13:52Yeah, you got the kill site right there. And then the animal rolled all the way down to there.
13:58So you see how the dirt is an unnatural color from everything else around. It's kind of dark and
14:04looks like there's some hair matter in there. My guess is during their gutting process and cleaning
14:09process. Coyotes feeding on it and everything like that. It rolled and that's where it ended up
14:15laying. But that's our evidence site. And that is our second evidence site.
14:23Right now, I'm going to pull my GPS out so I can document the location of this picture of this kill
14:30site. Me being from the area, I know that his area that he was supposed to be hunting is 30 miles
14:36that way. And it's a completely different herd from what is over here. And the target of that hunt is
14:45to thin down the number out of that herd that's north and not hit this herd that's south. Because
14:53this herd is a very sensitive herd. There's not as many elk, but I'm going to document everything that
15:00I possibly can. Any more evidence just helps solidify the case so that when it gets brought to
15:05the DA, he has no issues pursuing it. I like to take as many pictures as I possibly can.
15:14Because SD cards are cheap and evidence is priceless. All it takes is that one picture to solidify the case.
15:21I'm going to take as much hair as evidence as I possibly can. Because if I have to, I can compare
15:30the elk that would be in his freezer to this hair. We can always send this off to the lab and get a DNA
15:37analysis comparison. Next step is I'm going to start looking for a bullet or bullet fragments. Because if
15:48we can find brass, we can tie it to the gun he used. It'd be really nice to get an intact bullet, but with
15:57the way that this hunter pulled all the bones off the hill, he pulled all the meat off the hill, I don't
16:04have high hopes that I'm going to find a bullet. Shot in the dark, but even a blind squirrel finds a nut from
16:12time to time. Last things last, let's check the hide. That hole is consistent with a bullet hole right here.
16:42That hole is consistent with a bullet hole right here.
17:03I'm getting a small sound, but I don't know if it's getting interference from something else.
17:09Cause it's not in a spot where a bullet would be, but I'm getting a consistent ping in this area. So
17:19yeah, it's not coming off the ground, but I mean, this thing, it can pick up metal pretty good.
17:25I'm just not getting that really strong hit. And there's nowhere in this hide though,
17:40that a bullet could be lodged. It is so thin. The guy did a really good job cutting it away from the
17:46animal. Now that it's been out in the sun for two weeks, it's pretty petrified.
17:55I'm just trying to cut back some hair so I can get a little bit more exposure to the hide. See if
18:06there's something lodged in there or not.
18:11Elk hair, man, it is thick. There's a reason they make flies out of it for fly fishing.
18:17It looks like we have some blood in here, but there's typically a lot more of a hole if a bullet
18:29did enter here. Yeah, there might be the smallest piece of bullet in there. But even if there is,
18:38there's not enough evidence off of a small bullet like that to be able to tie it to a weapon.
18:46I'm gonna go ahead and clean my knife off so I don't put it away dirty, right? Pack up. I'm glad we finally found it.
18:52They've just used three darts and I have no idea what that's going to do.
19:12It looks like she's almost ready to lay down. May have just calmed down. I'm not sure. She might have just
19:20calmed down. Okay. Yeah, it looks like she's slowing. I'm sorry. This guy's been running for quite a
19:29while. Took her three darts to go all the way down. She's probably hot. She's had a lot of muscle stress.
19:34We just want to get some oxygen in into her and we want to do the minimum we can then get out,
19:40let her get reversed and help her recover.
19:41All right, come on, back to the job.
19:55Oh, man.
19:57Yes.
19:59I used to get a heart rate.
20:04Her heart rate's 48.
20:05What was that, Tim?
20:06103.
20:08I heard that.
20:09Looks good.
20:17From the blood, we can learn a lot of different things. We'll learn about trace minerals and
20:22and what's in their system to see the overall health of the animal.
20:27She's still at 48 heart rate and she's not lactating, which isn't surprising because you didn't see a calf.
20:33How come you don't have a baby?
20:35She's like, boys are hard to find out here.
20:40Slim Pickens.
20:43What was that second temp?
20:45It was 104.
20:46104.
20:47She's getting a little hotter.
20:49Let's get a reverse here as soon as we can.
20:51Okay.
20:53I got the reversals ready.
20:54Just, just when she's up, she couldn't get mad, so I want everybody that way because she's going to
21:02probably get up pretty quick.
21:07And if Hamza's in.
21:12Oh, good.
21:12She's picking up her hair.
21:13Good girl.
21:16Oh, there she is.
21:16Oh, as soon as I turned it off, she got up.
21:18Yeah, that was great.
21:22That was nice reversal.
21:24Good job, guys.
21:25This, hands down, was probably the most exciting days of my career.
21:29Good girl.
21:31We weren't even sure we were going to be able to find any today, so to have it all come together
21:34and go as successfully as it did, it was just a really awesome project.
21:39It's going to definitely be one of the days I remember as a highlight of my career.
21:43Not as hot as I thought she might be, so that was really nice to see.
21:50She gave it up to 104, but that was the max, and so.
21:53You know, putting ear tags in and stuff, she was relatively calm.
21:56Yeah, and I think we can expect that I'm not going to be that calm.
21:59Uh-huh.
22:00But that was really nice to see.
22:02Picked a good one.
22:03Very nice.
22:13We're going to head out into unit 222.
22:20We've got some cow elk guns going on up there.
22:22We're going to kind of try to contact some people and just kind of see what we get into today.
22:31What's going on at 153?
22:33Hey, it's John Anderson.
22:34How are you?
22:37Hey, good.
22:37I'm kind of up in the 150 area.
22:40I didn't catch what was going on.
22:41Do you need me to respond to anything?
22:46Thanks, Mike.
22:48So in scanning Lincoln County Sheriff's Department's channels,
22:51I overheard a call.
22:54It's relatively close to where we're at.
22:58Vehicle accident, unknown injuries.
23:01I'm going to try to get there as quick as I can and see what we got.
23:04I think I can get there before a lot of other first responders,
23:08and I can determine what's going on and whether additional resources are going to be needed.
23:18We have a lot of elk that cross right in that area.
23:21So it's very possible it's a collision with an elk.
23:26I actually hit a deer right there in this patrol vehicle four years ago.
23:35Sounds like medical just arrived on scene.
23:56How's it going?
24:09How you doing?
24:10She won't get me.
24:11Yeah, I know she won't get me out there.
24:14She intoxicated?
24:15Check up.
24:16Yeah.
24:18The people on scene are telling me that she's confused.
24:22I need to determine if that's because of possible drug use or alcohol use.
24:27What may be going on that's causing her to act erratically?
24:31How are you doing, man?
24:33So last night, it was around four in the morning.
24:36And either my tire blew, look at my tire, because my car just went out of control.
24:41But I did see, like, a truck behind me, like, strip lights for a couple of minutes.
24:47But I don't know what caused me to go off the side of the road like this.
24:50Did you see any deer or elk or anything?
24:52Like, okay.
24:53Have you been drinking at all?
24:54No.
24:55Nothing.
24:55Nothing.
24:56Hey, , so these guys got to get on their way.
24:58So we'll just have you finish the refusal and then...
25:00I already signed.
25:02You did?
25:02So you're good to go?
25:03Okay.
25:04It's confusing me a little bit that she's refusing all medical treatment.
25:09I can tell the medical staff that are on scene would like to transport her.
25:13But she has the right to refuse medical treatment.
25:17So it's just concerning me a little bit, the way she's acting.
25:22Are you walking okay?
25:27Okay.
25:28So you've been here since four o'clock this morning?
25:30Yeah, and I was passed out.
25:32She's been here since four in the morning.
25:34She refused medical.
25:35You don't want to get transported?
25:36No, no, no.
25:37You sure?
25:38I'm positive, sir.
25:39Okay.
25:40We're going to tow your vehicle.
25:41Where are you headed to?
25:42I'm going to Salt Lake.
25:43Salt Lake?
25:44Yeah, yeah.
25:44Okay.
25:45Are you on any prescription medication or anything like that?
25:49Yeah, it's good.
25:50I haven't taken my prescription since last night.
25:53Probably around 11 p.m.
25:5611 p.m.?
25:57You okay if I see the prescription medication you're on and stuff like that?
25:59Oh, I don't have the bottle with me.
26:00It's at home.
26:01You're okay to be driving with it though?
26:02It doesn't impair you or anything like that?
26:04I got just questions I got to ask.
26:05You know it.
26:06It doesn't impair me at all.
26:08Where are you coming from today?
26:09From Salt Lake.
26:10So you're coming from Salt Lake to go where?
26:12I was going to go see my friend in Vegas.
26:16Do you know what direction you were traveling?
26:17I was going to Vegas.
26:19You're going to Vegas from Salt Lake.
26:20Yeah.
26:21I drove through Cedar City.
26:23Yeah.
26:23Okay.
26:24Do you want to sit in the back of my car where the heater's on to stay warm?
26:26Would that work for you?
26:28Sure.
26:29We're going to talk some more.
26:30I'm going to talk some more, okay?
26:31Highway to...
26:35Wow, your car is messy.
26:36Yeah.
26:37What the heck is back here?
26:40That's school stuff for the kids.
26:42Lanier and stuff like that.
26:44That's sweet.
26:45So it's a good type of messy, right?
26:4711 o'clock last night, we left Salt Lake.
26:51Went through Cedar.
26:52Right now...
26:52Did I take a wrong turn?
26:54Yeah, because this is why we're looking at it and why I'm confused.
26:57It's just weird that you're going towards Salt Lake right now.
27:00Right.
27:00You're going northbound.
27:01You were going from Salt Lake to Vegas.
27:02Well, I don't know where I went off the side of the road.
27:05You know what I mean?
27:06But you see right now you're traveling northbound towards Salt Lake
27:09when you said you want to go towards Vegas, right?
27:11Right.
27:12So this is all signs for me of impairment that you kind of don't know where he's at,
27:16don't know what direction you're going.
27:24Hello, John.
27:32This is Nick Brunson, game warden with Ladder Department of Wildlife.
27:34How are you?
27:35Good.
27:36Yeah, it's still way in there.
27:37It hasn't moved a foot.
27:39It needs to be put down, but I didn't want to put it down without you seeing how I'm not
27:45so sure that it, you know, it's an accident.
27:47Absolutely.
27:48No, John, I'm actually out in the area.
27:50I'm right here.
27:51Okay.
27:52I'll be out and meet you.
27:53Okay, that sounds good.
27:54Thanks, John.
27:58So I just received a call about a deer that is injured out in Spring Creek.
28:03The caller knows something's not right with the deer.
28:06He says it's been there for quite a while and it's not moving very much.
28:09I mean, kind of all throughout Spring Creek, we've had problems with people feeding deer
28:14and it just, it causes major problems for a lot of those animals.
28:20How are you, John?
28:24Well, I appreciate you calling and we'll take care of this thing.
28:26I just, I watched him, watched him try to get up and it looks like, I don't know, I don't know if
28:32it's got some sort of...
28:33Look on the back, it looks like a fender of a car or something.
28:37It must have got hit and then it's just, oh man, I can imagine, I feel, I feel bad.
28:43We don't enjoy coming out and having to euthanize animals, but at the same time, I don't know that he'd be able to survive.
28:50I think you've got to put it down.
28:51Yeah.
28:52My dog went over and ran around it in circles a couple of times and it wouldn't get up.
28:57It wouldn't even get up, yeah.
28:59Like I say, I mean, shoot with me walking right here, right next to it.
29:02I mean, if it was able to get up and walk off on its own recognizance, it would have done that, but it didn't.
29:07Right.
29:08I know that in the past, we've had people that have fed deer in this area.
29:12John, do you know if there's, if there's people still feeding deer out here?
29:17It's that tan place there.
29:19Uh-huh.
29:20I'm not so sure that he's still feeding them or eating them.
29:24Yeah.
29:24I was going to say, I know we've had problems with somebody right up here in the past.
29:28Yeah.
29:28I can always look at that too.
29:30That guy was feeding for a while.
29:31A lot of times with people feeding deer and bringing these deer into all this,
29:37this housing area out in Spring Creek with the deer coming in,
29:41the predators are going to follow the deer in.
29:43For this deer, I'm making the decision to dispatch him.
29:46If I was to let him go in his current state,
29:48he's probably going to suffer a pretty long, slow and painful death.
29:51And so it's just a better all around for this animal.
29:55Just if I was to dispatch them, put them out of that pain and suffering.
29:59What I'll do is I'll just put it down and then move my truck up here
30:02and I'll just load it in the back of my truck and haul it out.
30:05Well, I'm going to go inside.
30:07I appreciate it.
30:07Thank you, John.
30:08Oh, good.
30:09If you end up seeing anybody that's feeding, give me a call and let me know
30:13because I'd love to come out and talk to them.
30:15Thanks, John.
30:17Usually walking this close to a deer,
30:19it should get up and walk off on its own recognizance.
30:22It's a young deer.
30:23I would almost think that this was last year's fawn.
30:26And with an injury back there to the spine like that,
30:28it doesn't seem that this deer is going to be able to get up on its feet.
30:31So it'll most likely die a slow, painful death.
30:33And euthanizing it will, you know, be the best outcome for this animal.
30:42Or, you know, 24-0-8-0, could you call the county and just let them know
30:46that there are going to be shots fired out here?
30:59You see, right now, you're traveling northbound towards Salt Lake,
31:13and you said you want to go towards Vegas, right?
31:15Right.
31:16So this is all signs for me of impairment that you kind of don't know where you're at,
31:19don't know what direction you're going.
31:21I mean, this is the middle of nowhere, and it's not even the most direct route
31:32from Las Vegas to Salt Lake City if she's going either way.
31:37And she said she was in Cedar last night,
31:39which means she turned west randomly and came out here.
31:43So just to keep you warm, we're going to close the door,
31:46and we'll get back with you here in a minute, okay?
31:47So she's changed her story three times already.
31:52She's going northbound, but she's going to Vegas, went through Cedar.
31:55Yeah, she said she was going to Salt Lake,
31:57and she changed it and said she's going from Salt Lake to Vegas,
32:00and she went through Cedar City.
32:07When I walked up, she bailed out of the car,
32:10get away from me, don't touch me.
32:12Yeah, there's something going on.
32:14It's not adding up.
32:17The closest town I can get to is to Caliani.
32:20Do you have anybody that we can call that can come pick you up?
32:22Yeah.
32:22There is?
32:23Yeah.
32:23Very sweet.
32:24Guess what?
32:25You're kind of in an emergency situation.
32:28It's not adding up.
32:29The closest town I can get you is to Caliani.
32:32Do you have anybody that we can call that can come pick you up?
32:35Yeah.
32:35There is?
32:36Yeah.
32:39Nice to meet you, guess what, in kind of an emergency situation.
32:44I'm going to go look around the vehicle.
32:48My car went off the side of the road.
32:51I think my pirate floated last night.
32:54She gave us consent to search, so we're just going to try
32:57to put the pieces together and make
32:58sure there's not a more serious medical issue
33:00that we're dealing with that we haven't figured out yet.
33:04So is there any way that you could come and get me?
33:09Oh, thank you.
33:12She's no longer going to Vegas.
33:15She is not making sense.
33:18She's doing things that are erratic,
33:21and we need to figure out if that's because of a brain
33:24injury 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.
33:36You do?
33:36Yeah.
33:37Absolutely.
33:38If I had wrecked at 4 o'clock in the morning
33:39and I sat out here by myself all night long,
33:41that can get kind of scary, because you're
33:42in the middle of nowhere.
33:43I'm in the middle of nowhere.
33:44I don't know how.
33:45Yeah.
33:46Are you feeling OK, though?
33:49Yeah, I mean, it's not like I'm dying or anything.
33:51Right, right, I mean.
33:53My nerves are just like, yeah, and treating me like.
33:58Yeah.
33:59Ma'am, when you wrecked at 4 in the morning,
34:01how come you didn't call for help right away?
34:03I went out.
34:05And for hours?
34:06Yeah, my head hit beside it.
34:08It ripped off my eyelashes out, my eyelashes.
34:11I see that.
34:12Yes.
34:13There was eyelashes all over and some.
34:15So it knocked you out for multiple hours.
34:17Yes.
34:18And I was on the other side.
34:20I think you need medical attention there.
34:22What's not?
34:23It's not good.
34:24I was on the passenger side.
34:25When you wrecked?
34:26No, no, no, when I woke up.
34:28Can I look at your eyes real quick?
34:30I'm just checking to see if your pupils are dilated differently,
34:32like a sign of concussion or anything like that.
34:35I'm not seeing it.
34:36Ma'am, if there's anything going on, if you're scared,
34:39we're the guys that can help you out, OK?
34:42Of course I'm kind of scared.
34:44Like I said, I saw a truck with lights,
34:46and I was like, is this guy following me?
34:48Because it was for miles, so I turn around,
34:51and I'm thinking in my head, OK, I'll
34:52be able to tell if he's following me.
34:54You know what I mean?
34:54Sure.
34:55I turn around.
34:55Absolutely.
34:56So that's how I ended up coming back.
34:58And he told us that when he first came up,
35:00that you were like, get away from me.
35:02Your family's being, why wasn't that?
35:04Because he was a big man.
35:05He is kind of a big man.
35:06A big man, and I'm in the middle of nowhere.
35:09You know what I mean?
35:10No, I would totally understand that.
35:12I didn't call him, so I was just like, whoa, look at my tire.
35:15Yeah.
35:16That looks bad.
35:17I mean, you saw the stuff that you went through,
35:19that sagebrush, and you're really lucky.
35:23A lot of times when people go off the road,
35:25their front tires dig in, and then they start flipping.
35:28I'm just glad you're OK.
35:30I'm glad I'm OK, too.
35:31So I'll check in on you, maybe tomorrow,
35:33just to make sure that you're getting where you need to go.
35:36OK.
35:36OK?
35:38We're about 30 minutes from Pioch.
35:39I want to make sure you have a hotel.
35:41I'm going to show you where the food's at,
35:42because I'm sure you're hungry being out here that long.
35:44I'm starving.
35:44Yep.
35:45I'll get you some food, and we'll get you going, OK?
35:47OK.
35:48At least I know the course of the day is kind of maybe upset.
35:50I'm sorry.
35:51I'm just trying to make sure everything's OK, all right?
35:55You deal with this stuff more than I do,
35:57but it's not adding up.
35:58There's nothing you can do.
35:59Sometimes it doesn't.
36:00Sometimes it doesn't.
36:02But there's nothing illegal against not making sense.
36:05Making sense and not being in your right mind.
36:08Yeah.
36:11I'm a little worried about if she really got knocked out,
36:14and she's in the passenger seat when she wakes up.
36:17Yeah.
36:17Like, I know she refused medical,
36:19but I looked at her eyes.
36:20They're not dilated different like a concussion,
36:22and she's tracking really well.
36:24She's not throwing up or dizzy passing out right now.
36:26Yeah.
36:28All right.
36:29Well, appreciate it.
36:30Yep.
36:30Hey, be good, hire.
36:31Yep.
36:31This deer most likely got hit by a vehicle, and it was probably
36:40coming into an individual feeding deer that's out here
36:44in this area.
36:44And it's a terrible scenario.
36:48It shouldn't have had to have been euthanized.
36:51I mean, it's a shame.
36:53Body condition-wise, this deer's not in poor condition.
36:57So that's another thing that leads me to believe that this animal
37:01was hit by a vehicle versus having some sort of a disease.
37:04A lot of times with the disease, you'll
37:06be able to see the deer's rib cage, backbone sticking out,
37:09just really kind of withering away, you know?
37:11It doesn't look like it has that.
37:14It just can't get onto its feet.
37:16I already know I'm clear that last residence, one deer
37:21euthanized.
37:22I'm going to be 10-8 in the area to talk with some of these
37:26property owners and see if anybody's feeding wildlife
37:29in the area.
37:31It aggravates me that I have to euthanize deer out here.
37:34That could have been completely avoided,
37:36but obviously there's somebody that's out here in this area
37:39that's still feeding deer.
37:42The house that we're just pulling up to now was the one
37:45that had been feeding deer in the past.
37:47I'm going to go in and talk with this individual
37:49and see if they're feeding the deer.
37:51And if they are, then I'll be getting a ticket from me.
37:56They're game warden, Nick Brunson.
37:58How are you?
37:58Oh, I'm OK.
37:59So I just put down a deer over in John's yard.
38:02You guys wouldn't happen to be feeding deer anymore, are you?
38:12They're game warden, Nick Brunson.
38:13How are you?
38:14Oh, I'm OK.
38:16You guys wouldn't happen to be feeding deer anymore, are you?
38:20No.
38:20I know you guys have been talked to in the past, right?
38:22Yeah.
38:22By us?
38:23Yeah.
38:23But you guys haven't been feeding them?
38:25No, we don't feed them no more.
38:26OK.
38:26Yeah.
38:27OK.
38:27Very good.
38:28I certainly appreciate it.
38:29Sure.
38:30You guys have a good one.
38:32OK.
38:36I haven't seen anything in their front yard
38:39or around the side of the house that makes me think
38:41that they're still feeding deer, whether it's like a pile of hay
38:44or some grain buckets or anything like that.
38:47But I'm going to go over here to one of their neighbors,
38:50and I'm going to talk to them because there's still potential
38:52that they are feeding deer.
38:53They're just lying to me about it.
38:57Hello, state game warden, how are you?
38:59Hi.
39:00I'm Nick Brunson.
39:00I'm a game warden with Nevada Department of Wildlife.
39:03How are you doing?
39:04Not doing too bad.
39:05I just put down a deer back out over here.
39:07I was just wondering, do you guys happen to know if there's
39:09anybody in the area that could potentially be feeding deer,
39:13putting feed out for deer?
39:14No.
39:15There's nobody that I know of.
39:17OK.
39:17We're used to, but they told him that.
39:19He hasn't done it anymore.
39:21Who?
39:21Who?
39:22This guy next door.
39:23Oh, this guy next door.
39:24OK.
39:24You haven't seen him feeding here recently?
39:26OK.
39:27OK.
39:28OK.
39:29If you do see anybody feeding deer in the area,
39:31would you mind calling me?
39:33Just let me know.
39:34Because I would love to come out and just try to educate
39:36people and let them know.
39:37There's still plenty of places where the deer can get
39:40their own natural food.
39:41OK.
39:42Right.
39:42Well, I certainly appreciate it.
39:44OK.
39:44Have a good one.
39:46Yep.
39:47You too.
39:50The individual that was feeding the deer in the past,
39:53his neighbor next door to him, it is
39:56even said that he wasn't feeding deer anymore.
39:59So there is a potential that he's telling the truth,
40:02but I'd like to come back at a later date and talk with some
40:05of the other neighbors out here.
40:11People that feed wildlife feel that they're filling a role
40:14for those deer.
40:15And even when they've been given warnings in the past,
40:18we've had people that we've had to go back to and write them
40:22tickets because they just can't stop doing it.
40:26And for anybody that thinks that the deer are in need of their
40:29help, they're fooling themselves because they survived long
40:32before men ever came into this country.
40:35So I can't stress that enough to people that are feeding them
40:39and that it's, it causes more harm than it does helping.
40:50Euthanizing something is probably the worst part about being a game
40:54warden.
40:54But in instances like this deer today,
40:57it's more humane to put that animal down than it is to let it get
41:02eaten alive by coyotes or just die a slow, painful death.
41:07It'll be fed on by predators and birds and things of that nature.
41:10So it's still playing an important role in nature.
41:14That's something that I can,
41:15I can be happy with is that it's going to provide food for others.
41:37It's impressive even though we have to the side.
41:42But the thing isn't supposed to do is that.
41:46But I am not being prepared for yourself because it's been
41:46a long time but still bad for others and people,
41:49among the others who way around people,
41:51people and families are at home.
41:53Those would be fed by and away Ogilip nuns.
41:56Those aren't really bad for animals.
41:58Those are some w funciónity only.
42:00Those aren't really bad for them.
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