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Nevada Wild S01E06
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00:00How in the world would they bring those things out here and just dump them?
00:09We're catching mountain goats.
00:11Identify animals that may be carrying pathogens, impacting the herd.
00:15I'm seeing two hunters have a set of decoys up in the water.
00:19They're out of game, Morton. How you guys doing today?
00:22When you pull away from a camp, you don't know.
00:25He's coming out with a gun.
00:27You want to get them cool as fast as possible.
00:30To limit the number of cells that are going to die.
00:32I don't know why they would cut the heads off and just leave the rest of them out here.
00:36It's just beyond me.
00:39Nevada.
00:41A land of extremes.
00:44From the strip to the summits.
00:46It's wild country.
00:48Home to more than 900 species.
00:51And a way of life worth protecting.
00:54Preserved for the people and the wildlife that call it home.
00:58One team stands guard.
01:01This is Nevada wild.
01:05This hunter is hunting this lower section.
01:23So what I'm going to do is go kind of hide in the brush down there and just spend some time watching them.
01:31A few more birds that are going to be able to harvest and see what I come up with.
01:36My name is John Anderson.
01:38I'm a game warden with the Nevada Department of Wildlife.
01:40I have two wildlife management areas in Lincoln County that have a lot of duck hunting.
01:46They hunt geese, Canadian geese, snow geese.
01:50I'm seeing two hunters that are, they have a set of decoys up in the water and then they're hunting from a blind that's up on shore.
01:59So I'm going to see how close we can get without getting exposed and maintaining kind of a covert presence.
02:08Waterfowl hunting is one of the most regulated activities you can participate in.
02:16This is about as close as I want to get.
02:18Be able to see everything from right here.
02:20We say when you can do it.
02:23There's different species that you can take different numbers of ducks.
02:27There's different types of weapons you can and can't use.
02:30Different shot you can and can't use.
02:32And I, as a game warden, really have to understand those laws as well because they're not simple.
02:40So I've been watching them here for a little while.
02:42Not much action this morning, not much birds flying around.
02:45I'm just going to go over and make contact with them.
02:51So I couldn't tell from up there, but they actually are on the island.
02:56So I'm going to have to throw my waders on to go out to talk to them.
03:02So we've got some birds flying around now.
03:18Yeah.
03:39How are you guys doing today?
03:41How are you good?
03:42Nevada game warden.
03:43I'm just going to come and talk to you guys real quick, okay?
03:45Out here is usually really good fishing.
04:02You'll see guys usually catch three to five pound trout out here, 25, 26, 27 inches long.
04:10So, I mean, really, really good trout fishing.
04:12And I'll take a walk down here and check and see if this guy's fishing.
04:26Just randomly parked off the side of the road and nobody down here fishing, I guess.
04:31It'd be a good spot to be fishing.
04:33This is Nick?
04:37Nick, it's Nat.
04:38Hey, what's happening?
04:39Danny Alexander of South Fork.
04:42He was walking his dog.
04:43He followed some ATV tracks that cut through a field.
04:46And he says that he saw two elk with their heads cut off.
04:50And I said, like, are they fresh?
04:52He said, yeah, they're fresh.
04:53Like, we're talking super fresh.
04:55So.
04:55Right, yeah, no, I'm out here at South Fork right now, Nat.
04:58So, yeah, if you wouldn't mind texting it to me.
05:01All right.
05:01Bye-bye.
05:03She was saying that the caller said that it sounds like there's two elk with their heads cut off.
05:08So I got the address.
05:09I'm just going to head over there now and meet up with this guy and find out where these carcasses are at.
05:19Yeah, hello.
05:20Hello, is this Danny?
05:22Yeah, this is Danny.
05:23I'm calling about the carcasses that you found.
05:26Would you mind if I came over to your house and talk to you about that?
05:30I'll take you over there and show you all at that.
05:32Okay.
05:32That sounds good, Danny.
05:33I appreciate it.
05:35And I'll see you there here in a few.
05:45Nevada game, Lord.
05:46And I'm just going to come and talk to you guys real quick, okay?
05:49I saw you got one already.
05:50Yeah, that's the first one I got to shoot at today and I got it.
05:54Nice.
05:55Where are you guys from?
05:56Vegas.
05:57Yeah.
05:58Cool.
05:58Just up for the day?
05:59Yeah.
06:00So if a bird does start coming in while I'm talking to you guys, just let me know that you're going to shoot before you shoot, okay?
06:06Okay, cool.
06:06And then I'll get down and you guys can keep hunting.
06:08That's super cool.
06:10See, I'll just see you guys' licenses and then I'll check your guns.
06:13Yes, sir.
06:14Do you know what kind of bird you got there?
06:17Possibly a scop?
06:18Yeah.
06:19Yep, it's a scop.
06:20This is both of our first seasons.
06:22Duck hunting, really hunting in general.
06:24Cool.
06:25Been enjoying it, man.
06:26Yeah, it's a good way to get out and enjoy the natural world, you know?
06:31Oh, yeah, absolutely.
06:33And then can I see the ammo you guys are using and your shotguns?
06:37Yes, sir.
06:37Okay.
06:39Do I see your shotgun, sir?
06:41Is it plugged?
06:42It is, yes, sir.
06:43A lot of shotguns can hold three, four, five, six, seven, so that plug keeps it so they can only have three, which gives the ducks a fighting chance as they're flying away.
06:56So there's two in the magazine and none in the chamber.
06:59Correct.
06:59If they only have three shots, they have a really hard time taking an over limit if they haven't properly identified that group of ducks that's flying in.
07:09Cool.
07:10Well, all three of these shotguns are plugged correctly and you guys got everything.
07:14You got one bird.
07:15The morning's young.
07:17There's a duck coming.
07:19Oh, here we go.
07:20You're going to call him in.
07:25Yeah, it's probably not going to help that I'm here right now.
07:28No worries.
07:29Thanks for being cooperative.
07:30You guys are the kind of guys I love checking in the field.
07:33Man, thank you.
07:35It's always refreshing when you make contact with a group of hunters.
07:42They got their plug shotguns, they got their licenses, their stamps, and they're really cordial.
07:48That's always a great experience to check a group of hunters like that.
07:53So we're going to head down to Nesbitt.
07:57From what it sounded like, there was a lot more shooting going on down there.
08:04Hello, it's Anderson.
08:05This is Tyler Eaton.
08:06How are you doing?
08:07Tyler, what's going on?
08:08Well, up there by my place, there's a hole with a front leg completely useful.
08:15Swinging like a compound fracture?
08:18It's flopping around.
08:20Okay.
08:21Okay, well, I'm down in Key Pippen right now.
08:24Before I get there, could you try to find her and determine her health situation and we'll go from there.
08:30All right, sounds good.
08:31Thanks, Tyler.
08:33This is one of my neighbors.
08:34Sounds like she's struggling pretty good in the town of Panaca.
08:38She's got a broken leg and isn't getting around very well.
08:41So go see what's going on with that.
08:44We got about an hour up there.
08:46Well, I'm going to meet up with the reporting party out here in South Fork.
08:57I'm going to talk to him to find out where these carcasses are at.
09:01How are we doing?
09:15It's Nick Brunson.
09:17Okay.
09:20Go out here.
09:21You can probably take this over there to the edge of the sagebrush and then we can just walk it if you want.
09:26Okay.
09:31Yeah, I saw this this morning and I said, I've got to call you guys because it's relatively fresh.
09:36Right.
09:37Those ATV tracks went through a couple of days ago.
09:40That's why when I saw them today, I thought the guy was out there fooling around.
09:44Right.
09:45Until he got a little bit deeper in the sagebrush and I thought, that's kind of strange.
09:48Yeah, you can see what it looks like they've drugged something out through there.
09:55I'm guessing that's what the birds are flying for.
09:58Yeah, probably us.
10:10Boy, they definitely were dragging something.
10:13It looks like they made a couple of different little loops out here.
10:16If somebody did kill these elk and just cut the heads off and leave the rest of them out there,
10:22I mean, that's a pretty big thing.
10:23I mean, you could go all the way up to felony unlawful harvest of a big game animal.
10:31You're absolutely right.
10:35There they be.
10:37What in the world would they bring those things out here and just dump them?
10:46What in the world would they bring those things out here and just dump them?
11:02It looks like cattle, like cow cows, moo cows.
11:05These elk, they're regular livestock cows.
11:09They're somebody's cows, decapitated and just left sitting out here.
11:14I don't know why they would cut the heads off and just leave the rest of them out here.
11:17Yeah.
11:19It's just beyond me.
11:21Do you know anybody from right out here in Lucky Nugget that has?
11:25That has cows?
11:26A guy by over there, Mike, runs them, but they're over in Lee.
11:32Right.
11:33If I told Mike about this, he'd probably go ballistic.
11:37Yeah.
11:38I think most of the cattle ranchers probably would.
11:41I don't know if this was the landowner.
11:44Maybe these cows died of natural causes and they just brought them out here to get rid of them.
11:48Or this could be somebody shooting somebody's livestock and bringing them out here and cutting the heads off.
11:54It's a violation of the state.
11:56There's a pasture down here.
11:58Uh-huh.
11:59It's 640 acres.
12:01It's all fenced off.
12:03Mike uses that in the summertime to run cows.
12:06But he doesn't use it now.
12:07Right.
12:08There's nothing on it now.
12:09I'm wondering if these are ones that people had had any of the houses or anything like that around here.
12:15It would have to be something relatively close to drag them all the way out this way.
12:19What it looks like to me is somebody's livestock and they just decided to decapitate them and bring them out here.
12:26So you would figure that they would, if they were going to be killing them, that they'd be butchering them.
12:32You would think so, unless they got some kind of.
12:35Right.
12:36Unless they got sick of some sort.
12:38That one looks like it could have been.
12:39That one, yeah, that one definitely looks like it could have been.
12:42But, I mean, you can even see that, you know, the hooves, how long those things are.
12:48They definitely didn't spend a whole lot of time out in the wide open because they would have wore those things down.
12:56That one's toes definitely are long.
12:58One of these cows is very malnourished.
13:01If they're not feeding these animals, that's a complete violation of the law.
13:06That's animal cruelty.
13:07Unless, like you say, unless they were, had some sort of disease and they just ended up dying.
13:14But why would they cut the heads off?
13:16Yeah.
13:18Maybe, maybe yard ornaments?
13:20I don't know.
13:22Well, I'll give you a ride back over to your house and then I'll come back over this way and.
13:26Actually, if you just want to get to work, it won't hurt me to walk.
13:29Are you sure?
13:30I walk that far every day.
13:32I certainly appreciate it.
13:33You bet.
13:36Pretty disturbing.
13:37Doesn't matter if it's wildlife or livestock.
13:41With this being livestock, it's not so much a Department of Wildlife matter.
13:46It's going to be more of a Department of Agriculture thing.
13:49I'm going to collect everything that I can off of these animals.
13:52Follow some of the evidence, see if it can lead me to where potentially these animals came from.
13:56To be able to give the Department of Ag so that they can further their investigation.
14:01I mean, to me, it looks like it was potentially two rope and steers.
14:04I can tell that they're males.
14:05May have horns.
14:07And that's why they cut the heads off.
14:09I mean, you can't even see any brands on any of them.
14:12It's one of the first things that I would be looking for is a brand.
14:16When I was coming up here on that street, it almost looked like there was drag marks on that road.
14:25I don't know.
14:25To me, like I say, it's pretty disturbing.
14:27It'd be nice to find out the reason why.
14:29I just got a deer.
14:40It's got a broken leg and it's wandering around.
14:43Every single week, I have to put a deer down in one of these towns because people are feeding them.
14:50Because they're bringing them in.
14:51They have that food source.
14:56How's it going, Nathan?
14:58Not too bad.
14:58He said it looked like she was trying to jump the fence and go in behind the Andersons.
15:03Okay.
15:04I'm going to hike around, just walk around the alfalfa field and then go in behind the Andersons and see if I can scare her out.
15:10Did they say what kind of injury it looked like?
15:11Yeah, she had a broken leg and I guess it was swinging and possibly compound fracture.
15:17Okay.
15:18All right.
15:18Yep.
15:19Appreciate your help.
15:20Yep.
15:20I work with the local law enforcement closer than I do other game wardens because they're three hours away.
15:31They can assist me on stuff like this.
15:32I'm their backup.
15:33So this is our reporting party's house.
15:40So I'm actually going to stop and start hiking around.
15:44If it needs to be euthanized, then, you know, that's part of what we do.
15:57This human-wildlife interaction is not good for these deer.
16:01So people feed these deer, bring them into town and think they're helping them out.
16:06And then they try to jump a fence and get their leg caught and snap it in half, which is more than likely what happened here.
16:25So it looks like she's not over here.
16:26We're going to head over across the street.
16:27Yeah, he made it sound like she was leaving this field here and trying to cross this fence and couldn't get across it.
16:43So she could be back in here.
16:57So I got a deer right here.
17:03It looked like she was headed that way.
17:06It's without too much of a struggle.
17:11The deer, it ran away from me, which is a really good thing.
17:16Its health is at a level where it can avoid things that it doesn't like, as in me.
17:21So that's a really good sign.
17:23If it can get around this well, maybe it's not one we put down yet.
17:28Or, you know, maybe it happened really recently and it hasn't had the negative effects on its body condition yet.
17:36So that's kind of a tricky situation.
17:39Do you let that take effect on its body and waste away to a really sick animal?
17:46Or do you put it out of its misery while it's still in a relatively good body condition?
17:54I feel comfortable leaving this situation.
17:57I can keep track of it over the next week or so.
17:59But for right now, I'm fine with leaving this deer alone and seeing what it does.
18:16I'm going to continue to follow these tracks down and see if I can talk to any of these houses here
18:23and see if maybe they've seen anybody bringing those carcasses up here.
18:29You can kind of see where the gravel's been moved.
18:43And you can kind of see somewhat of a directionality of the move.
18:52See if these people will tell me if they've seen anything or not.
18:59How are we doing?
19:06Stay game, Morton.
19:07Did you happen to see a four-wheeler or side-by-side or anything like that last night dragging a cow up the road at all?
19:16Well, I thought I heard a bike.
19:18Guys go by here on four-wheelers.
19:20All the time, I'm sure.
19:22Yeah, it was dark.
19:23Do you know of anybody that has cows out over in here?
19:26Here they had some cows.
19:27I saw a couple of cows over here the other day.
19:31Like a red one and a dark brown one?
19:33Well, yeah, red, like a her fruit or something.
19:36Uh-huh.
19:36Yeah.
19:38Well, I certainly appreciate it.
19:40So, at least I know the deer come into this guy's yard.
19:49And then he said that some folks kind of across the draw from him had cows.
19:55Coming from over there, I guess I'll see where the drag marks take me.
20:00Now I'm following the drag marks down here.
20:06Maybe these folks can shed some light on your dead cows because it kind of looks like the drag marks right here, even.
20:18There's two four-wheelers.
20:20Even the four-wheeler has the same tire tracks, which could explain why that guy heard two of them.
20:25There we are.
20:33Pretty sure I got cow heads.
20:46Pretty sure I got cow heads.
20:51Really fresh, too.
20:55They definitely came from here.
20:58And it looks like a side-by-side parked right over here in the shed.
21:01It could be that these things potentially died of natural causes,
21:17and they just drug them out there to dispose of them and just cut the heads off.
21:20I don't know why.
21:21Or whether they, you know, were malnourished,
21:24all those different things could weigh in, and we could potentially have some sort of violation.
21:28Nobody was home.
21:36I don't know if that's just because they don't want to come to the door,
21:40but I'll take the information that I have, give that to the Department of Ag.
21:47And if they need my help, I can come down and help them do interviews on these folks
21:52and figure out what's going on with these cows.
21:53We're going to do a nasal swab.
22:16We're going to also do a tonsil swab.
22:18You may want to underline them.
22:20It's a good idea.
22:21We're capturing mountain goats.
22:23We're going to try to identify animals that may be carrying pathogens
22:27that are impacting the herd and the survival of the kids.
22:33So we need to get kids recruited to replace these aging,
22:38this aging population of mountain goats.
22:40But it's a gorgeous mountain.
22:42It's great, great mountain goat habitat.
22:46Nate, what are we going to put on board the animals?
22:50Just Draxon?
22:51Draxon and Vanamine.
22:53My name is Nate LaHue.
22:55We're doing several big game captures, and I'm providing the veterinary support for that.
22:59The disease of concern that we're looking for today is what we call mycoplasma ovale pneumoniae,
23:04or MOV for short, and that's the disease that causes these pneumonia outbreaks.
23:10Because they're aging out, because we can't bring in new animals,
23:14because they're not a native species, this is really our only opportunity to preserve the herd.
23:18So just a quick rundown of why we're here.
23:25The East Humboldts experienced a disease event back in 2009, 2010.
23:31The kids were dying a month or two after birth.
23:36So this population has slowly went from 160 and just kept on 120, 100, 80, 60,
23:44and now we're probably in the 40 range.
23:47We're sampling animals through the blood, through the nasal swab, and the tonsil swab
23:53to determine who has what pathogens.
23:56So we're hoping to turn this herd around.
23:59Mountain goats, they are definitely an incredibly unique animal.
24:19They're adapted to these high alpine environments,
24:22and so their ability to kind of survive and thrive in difficult terrain is pretty amazing.
24:31Capture crew up on the mountain is trying to get these animals and chase them for the minimum time possible.
24:37We don't like them chased any more than two minutes.
24:42They're running for the long of that, they're down, they're hobbled.
24:45There's going to be some constriction of blood flow, and all of that is going to increase stress
24:51and increase the chance that they're going to get what we call capture myopathy.
24:54There's a lot of different forms of capture myopathy,
25:08but a severe case can result in death.
25:10That's one of our biggest concerns.
25:12When they come into the base camp, what's important is the loading and unloading of the animals from the helicopter.
25:34Oh, man, that's awesome.
25:36We have five stations to accommodate up to five animals brought in, slung underneath the helicopter.
25:42We have a way station.
25:49We have a team of people that will be dedicated to each of those tables.
25:53This capture base camp is truly a base camp.
25:59So we put the blindfold on to help keep her calm,
26:04decrease the amount of sensory information that she's getting.
26:08Our main role in these captures is monitoring the health of the animal, taking biological samples.
26:17Got it.
26:18Release.
26:19He's a big boy.
26:21We're monitoring temperature, we're monitoring heart rate.
26:23If the temperature's high, we may put in a catheter, give fluids, get the animal cool.
26:29Obviously, if you have any wounds, any injuries, we would deal with those.
26:35We're monitoring the temperature.
26:36The biggest concern is if they get too hot.
26:39Capture myopathy.
26:40It's unfortunately fairly common in undulates from basically overheating and over muscle use.
26:46If they were too high, like over 104, we give them oxygen, maybe IV fluids, depending on how hot they are.
26:53Over 105.8 degrees Fahrenheit, cells start dying.
26:59We want to get them cool as fast as possible to limit the number of cells that are going to die.
27:04And that is going to increase their chances of recovering.
27:08101.9.
27:09Okay, that's a perfect temperature for her.
27:13So right now, I'm just trying to get some blood.
27:16It's a bit challenging to find these veins when they got their nice winter coats.
27:22You can see how they have these long guard hairs.
27:24And then underneath, all this really fine stuff, that undercoat, is what really keeps them warm.
27:32This first, I'm just going to check her for any injuries, all her legs.
27:37Lance here is going to find a little spot without much hair to see if we can get an ultrasound probe on her and see if she's pregnant.
27:46No wounds on the other side, right, guys?
27:48No blood.
27:49We got blood up here at the horns.
27:51We got a big hole of some sort.
28:09Potentially a juvenile.
28:12Oh, looks like you probably got a fish.
28:15I love that.
28:16That makes me happy.
28:17I love seeing people catch fish.
28:19My name is Zach Bowman.
28:23I'm a game warden from the state of Nevada.
28:25Been patrolling for about three years.
28:27I'm in Winnemucca right now.
28:28I grew up hunting and fishing, outdoor stuff, dirt bike riding, camping.
28:33And so, always wanted to be in law enforcement.
28:36And I figured this is kind of the best of both worlds.
28:38Nice.
28:39What do you got?
28:40Camp.
28:41Yeah, I was just locked up on shore right here.
28:44Oh, really?
28:44Yeah.
28:45So, you just caught it with your hands?
28:47Yeah, I was just swimming right up.
28:48It was laying on the side.
28:50Okay.
28:51Do me a favor.
28:51Go ahead and put it back in the water.
28:52Let's see.
28:53Do you want to take it home or are you not taking fish home?
28:56No.
28:56Okay.
28:58Ah, it doesn't look like he's doing very good.
29:01I think he's going to end up dying.
29:02How old are you?
29:04Uh, 13.
29:05Okay.
29:06Do you have your fishing license?
29:07Yes, sir.
29:07That's awesome.
29:10Brother and sister?
29:11Yes, sir.
29:11Awesome.
29:12Jacob, you got your junior license.
29:14Expires in May of this year, okay?
29:16Make sure you keep paying attention to that.
29:18We're coming up.
29:18We got about three more months.
29:19All right.
29:20Did you get to hunt at all last year?
29:22Yes.
29:22Yeah?
29:22What did you hunt for?
29:23A deer when I got it.
29:25You did?
29:25Yeah.
29:25What did you get?
29:26A doe.
29:27A doe?
29:27Yeah.
29:28Congratulations.
29:29Is that your first deer?
29:30Yes.
29:30Oh, dude.
29:31That's so cool.
29:32Heck yeah.
29:33You feel good about that?
29:34Yeah.
29:34Yeah?
29:35What did you kill it with?
29:36Uh, 270.
29:37270?
29:37How far?
29:39Roughly 100 yards.
29:40Okay.
29:41That's a good shot.
29:42Awesome.
29:43Okay.
29:43Have fun, guys.
29:45Don't worry about him.
29:47I'm going to come back this afternoon, and I'll take him out of the water, okay?
29:49All right.
29:52I love it.
29:53It makes me so happy.
29:55That's our future.
29:57That's why I'm doing this.
29:58I hope that my contact with them leaves an impact on them, you know, knowing that, hey,
30:05he cares about what I'm doing as an outdoorsman, so I definitely have a stake in this.
30:11So we're rolling into Chimney Reservoir, which is a body of water up in northern Nevada.
30:23Got a camp here with a gentleman walking around, so we'll go chat with him, see what's going on.
30:30Even if he's not fishing, it's nice to just introduce yourself.
30:34Maybe he saw something that he can't tell anyone else because maybe there's no cell service here, or he can't get out.
30:41So we're going to roll up and make contact right now.
30:47A few fishing poles doesn't look like any are in the water right now, but we'll go see how his luck is.
30:51I haven't checked a whole lot of people with luck here, so it's always exciting to see what's going on.
30:57Hi, pup.
30:57What are you doing?
30:59Hi, pups.
30:59Oh, look at you.
31:00How are you?
31:07Good, thanks.
31:08How are you?
31:08Good.
31:09How's the fishing?
31:10Terrible.
31:11Is it?
31:11No bites, nothing.
31:12How long have you been here?
31:13Two days.
31:14Two days?
31:15We fished early yesterday, but the wind was so bad.
31:18Was it?
31:18Oh, man.
31:19No luck, huh?
31:20No, not a thing.
31:22Bummer.
31:22Dang it.
31:22Who all is fishing?
31:23My wife and my grandson, my older grandson.
31:26Okay, you fishing too?
31:27Yes.
31:27Okay, cool.
31:28Well, I'll go ahead and check licenses then.
31:30Okay, let me grab them.
31:35Hi, guys.
31:35How are you?
31:36Good, how are you?
31:37Good.
31:37Are you having fun?
31:38Yeah.
31:38Good.
31:40Okay, awesome.
31:42All right, you're...
31:43That's my hunting fishing.
31:45Yes, it is.
31:45You just got it too, huh?
31:46Right before this trip.
31:48Of course, you're good for a year.
31:50There you go.
31:51Cool.
31:51Cool.
31:51Thanks, boss.
31:52That's mine and his also.
31:53Okay.
31:55You're good.
31:56You got about another month.
31:57Yeah.
31:57Well, I appreciate it, sir.
31:59Good luck to you.
32:00Good to see you.
32:06So, real cordial.
32:08Obviously, it doesn't seem to be a threat.
32:10But when you pull away from a camp, you don't know the interaction and, you know, what's
32:16going on inside that trailer right now.
32:17So, pulling away, you kind of want to keep them in your line of sight still.
32:21I'm watching in my mirror right now, because I want to make sure that no one's coming out,
32:25waving me down.
32:26Maybe he's got another question, or maybe he's coming out with a gun.
32:30You know?
32:31Always got to be cognizant of that kind of thing.
32:33It's like any other law enforcement job.
32:34You never know what's going to happen around the next corner.
32:36We've got blood up here at the horns.
32:54Just a little bit at the base.
32:56Small laceration.
32:57We can clean that up with a little bit of chlorhexidine.
33:00Okay.
33:01All right.
33:01So, we're radio marketing these mountain goats today.
33:04This will give us survival over time, movement data.
33:08These callers are going to track and send us points, and we can continue to develop a health
33:14profile for these individuals over time.
33:27Oh, Mike, look at his bottom lip.
33:32Looks like contagious ectima, or...
33:35Oh.
33:36Let's take a photo of that.
33:40Oh, yeah.
33:42Yeah, that's definitely it.
33:44C.E.
33:46We're going to have to warn people.
33:48Don't try and not touch the mouth.
33:50When you're seeing a rash on the mouth, it's a disease that's called sore mouth or ORF.
33:55It's a viral disease.
33:57It's actually a zoonotic disease, meaning that if you touch that without gloves, you can
34:02get it, and you'll get pustules and rash on your hands.
34:06Not a fun disease to have.
34:09Yeah, that's contagious ectima.
34:13So, don't scratch your nose with your gloves, and if you do see a sore, let somebody know.
34:20Just trying to ultrasound her.
34:27What we're doing is we're trying to see if she's pregnant, so we're just going to get
34:33her back in the sling, get her nice and situated in here, and they're going to take her back
34:40up on the mountain and let her go just where they found her.
34:43One, two, three.
34:46One, two, three.
35:16We had time to get an ultrasound in.
35:19Fortunately, not pregnant, but 11-year-old,
35:22it's kind of what we expect.
35:23Yeah, to be expected.
35:24Not a lot of productivity left at that age,
35:26but we're seeing, you know,
35:27them younger goats coming here too, so.
35:30Yeah, that was nice to see a 2-year-old Billy.
35:33Exactly.
35:34That's really nice to see.
35:35This is the future.
35:36Today, overall, was a success.
35:38We got all the samples we needed.
35:40Every animal went back on the mountain safely.
35:42They haven't been struggling.
35:43They haven't been hot.
35:44So that bodes really well for how they're going to do post-release.
35:48Got some good information, great samples.
35:52It'll be interesting to see how the tests come back.
35:55As we expect is the old age of this population
35:59are becoming unproductive,
36:01and so it reminds us of the urgency
36:04to get this population back on its feet
36:07with some younger animals.
36:14So Thacker is one of those reservoirs
36:27that's kind of tough to sneak and see what's going on.
36:31So I'll kind of glass right here, but see, like,
36:34I can't really try and kind of pull off the road,
36:36but there's not much that I can do.
36:39You know, I might be able to see someone
36:41on the dam of the reservoir.
36:44But, you know, of course, I've got to be watching my mirrors.
36:47And see, even from here, it's hard to tell
36:53if there's someone actually there.
36:55It looks like there's a car there.
37:16Got a car here.
37:18It looks like at least two people.
37:20So we'll check licenses, see if they're doing any good.
37:24It looks like he's reeling in.
37:36Oh, you do?
37:37Yeah.
37:38Hey, look at that.
37:41You got to make sure you guys got your licenses.
37:43Yeah.
37:44Not keeping too many.
37:45Yeah.
37:46Outstanding.
37:48Cool.
37:49Yep, you expired today,
37:50so make sure to run into town and get a new one.
37:53Yeah.
37:54Of course, don't need tickets for fish without a license, right?
37:57Right.
37:58Brian, if you want to bring those over to me, man,
38:00I'll go ahead and check them out here.
38:02I don't like walking on that.
38:03That's a little sketchy.
38:04It is scary.
38:05It is a little janky.
38:06I figure it's still got a few more walks on it, though.
38:13Beautiful, beautiful fish, though.
38:15Right.
38:16You mind if I take a picture of him?
38:17Yeah, go ahead, man.
38:18Yeah, go ahead, man.
38:19So who's caught?
38:20Who's caught what?
38:21He's caught all three.
38:22He's caught all three.
38:23You have?
38:24Ah, you're winning today, huh?
38:25Winning today.
38:26Yeah.
38:27Right on.
38:28Awesome, guys.
38:29Well, have fun today, and good luck to you, all right?
38:30Start catching fish, man.
38:31Okay?
38:32Fish hand on this one.
38:33Nice talking to you.
38:34Yeah, you too.
38:35All right.
38:36Yeah, I would shake his hand.
38:37That's all good.
38:38Awesome, guys.
38:41Have a nice day.
38:47Well, that's cool.
38:48Got to make contact with a couple more people today.
38:52Make a quick turn right here and see if I can find anybody.
38:56So we'll see what's going on.
39:09There's a big dead eagle right there.
39:12I just want to take a quick look at it.
39:16I got to give my bio just a call.
39:32Hey, Janet and Zach, if you could give me a call.
39:35Just found a dead eagle.
39:37I'm going to go ahead and pick it up and toss it in my truck.
39:39I just want to give you a heads up.
39:40Thanks, Spike.
39:41Oh.
39:54Of course, you can't shoot eagles, so just metal detecting to cover my bases because it's
39:57a federally protected bird.
40:00I think they tend to sit on the road and eat until they get full and then they don't fly
40:08up and just end up getting struck by a vehicle.
40:13It's pretty mangled, so that's probably what happened.
40:20So I'll take it to the Endow office in Winnemucca.
40:22We'll put it in the freezer and they'll x-ray it and see if there's like disease or anything.
40:27And then she'll determine where it goes.
40:33All right, we're done here.
40:42I love being in the outdoors.
40:43I do a lot of this on my own time.
40:45I want to keep it that way for generations in the future.
40:48It means a lot to me and I want to protect it the best that I can.
40:51I'll do it the best that I can.
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