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00:10I pulled up here with the truck and they're just laying there looking at me
00:13like it's another day and that's not typical deer behavior. Well because you
00:18don't have an AIS to cry can't let you go back out on the water so serious. Once
00:22the animals netted I'm getting out of the helicopter getting to the animal to
00:27where it's you know safe for the animal as well as us. Check fishing licenses real
00:32quick. California. We don't honor California. If you don't then I'm fishing without a license.
00:41Nevada. A land of extremes. From the strip to the summits. It's wild country. Home to more than 900
00:52species and a way of life worth protecting. Preserved for the people and the wildlife that call it home.
01:00One team stands guard. This is Nevada Wild.
01:06All right.
03:05Right on.
03:06Sounds good.
03:06Did you guys find your deer?
03:10Okay.
03:13Okay.
03:14Sounds good.
03:15My name is Matthew Jeffress.
03:17I'm a game biologist out of the eastern region for Nevada Department of Wildlife.
03:21Today, I'm working with the capture crew, Quicksilver Air.
03:23We work with them.
03:24We've been working with them for several years now on a lot of our big game capture work.
03:29We're going to be targeting Rocky Mountain elk, we're going to be targeting mule deer, and
03:33we're going to be targeting California bighorn sheep on the snowstorm mountains in western
03:37Elko County.
03:39He's out there working on that other deer.
03:40Oh, okay.
03:42They go out, they fly around, they're really good at what they're doing, locating wildlife.
03:47They're looking for bighorn sheep from known locations and also taking advantage of just
03:53a random chance of finding a bighorn sheep that may be moving from one area to another.
03:57And they're out catching animals, and now I'm just waiting for them to come back.
04:05With the bighorn sheep, it's a continuation of a disease project.
04:09We've monitored these sheep since 2011 when we had a summer die-off.
04:12There was contact between domestic sheep and bighorn sheep.
04:15We've maintained a good number of colors on these animals, and we're just looking at
04:19disease profiles and interactions among sub-herds.
04:54And we're just looking at disease.
04:59My name's Harley Cushman.
05:01I work for Quicksilver Air.
05:03Once the animal's netted, generally I'm getting out of the helicopter, getting to the animal,
05:10controlling it on the ground to where it's safe for the animal as well as us.
05:16And then at that point, we're untangling the animal out of the net, and we have some hobble
05:22straps that we take and tether the back and front legs together.
05:26So as they can't kick us while we're processing them.
05:30And then, you know, after they're hobbled up, we usually blindfold them.
05:35Typically, they have a collar, a tracking collar they want put on them, along with blood samples
05:40they want taking, ear tag, aging measurements on some.
05:45We try to get in there and get it done quick so they spend as little time as possible on
05:50the ground.
05:55Yeah, they were able to get all three rams, so we're definitely going to transition over
05:59to elk and grab a few more deer.
06:16My name's Perry Miller.
06:17I've been a game warden just a little over two years.
06:21I'm starting my third year right now.
06:22Still fairly new at it, but I enjoy every minute of it from the boats to especially hunting patrol
06:30during the wintertime.
06:31I mean, hunting, that's my bread and butter.
06:33It's what I grew up doing.
06:35I kind of always wanted to do this job.
06:40So, we just pulled in on the Willow Beach Road.
06:43This is the access road to Willow Beach in the Lake Mead National Recreation Area.
06:48As soon as we pull up and go around the corner, we'll be able to start seeing fishermen and everything
06:52like that, so hopefully everybody's playing by the rules today.
07:06Good morning, guys.
07:07Yay, mordons.
07:08Check licenses real quick.
07:10I've got two big ones up here this morning.
07:12Awesome.
07:13I need two, bud.
07:14One?
07:16Thank you very much.
07:18You bet.
07:19Yep.
07:20Let's see the fish real quick.
07:21Yeah.
07:24It's good to see some of the big ones are still in here.
07:26Yeah, I know.
07:29Yep, awesome.
07:30All right, you guys have a good morning.
07:39Hey, look.
07:41Two.
07:41Little guys, it looks like.
07:43Perfect taco size.
07:44Game word and check fishing licenses real quick.
07:48Thank you very much.
07:51How far north are you from?
07:53Calgary.
07:53Calgary?
07:54Yeah.
07:54I figured.
07:55The accent and your what waiting.
07:57So this is summer water to you.
07:59Oh, yeah.
08:00This is bathtub.
08:00Yep.
08:01Awesome.
08:01All right, you have a good day, sir.
08:08Any luck this morning?
08:10Nothing yet?
08:12Thank you very much.
08:14Yep, you have a good morning.
08:17Check fishing license real quick.
08:18I don't have one.
08:19You don't have one?
08:20No.
08:29We hit our target on California bighorn sheep.
08:35We were able to get our deer collared.
08:39So now the crew's moving over east of where we were this morning, about 15 miles east, still
08:43part of the snowstorm mountains, and going for elk.
08:48We have a problem with just random spring, summer elk mortality, both sexes, bulls and cows.
08:54It's a pretty high mortality rate.
08:56Every year since 2015, we've had anywhere between 20 and 50 percent mortality on our collared cows.
09:03So it's more than just a random chance at this point, and we've really been putting everything into figuring out
09:09what's actually affecting these elk and the causal agent.
09:20Elk, they're big critters.
09:22They got big, long necks, big heads.
09:24That net gunner, you know, he has a split second.
09:27We usually try to put the net on them when they're turning.
09:30You know, you put that net on them when they're turning, and there's a lot better chance of their legs
09:35get tangled up in the net.
09:37And then as they're turning, they'll lay down right on their side.
09:42Snow is ideal for all animals, you know.
09:45Something to cushion them when they fall.
09:46They're not running as fast.
09:49You know, our goal is really to do this as safe for the animal, causing as little as harm as
09:55we can.
10:00The goal is, you know, the animals and the people walk away at the end of the day, and as
10:06well as gain valuable information that Endow can study and hopefully improve, you know, the habitat for all the animals.
10:16Broker, you pull.
10:43Let's get this over with right now, huh?
10:45Let's get this over with right now, huh?
11:04Then I've got to lube that deal up to go down her throat.
11:07So the bolus, that big magnet-looking device put down the elk's throat, sits in their rumen, and then that
11:16communicates with the caller.
11:17And if the elk dies and stops moving for just a few minutes, we'll get communication from that caller to
11:24a satellite and then directly to our cell phones and texts and then email as well.
11:29And then every spring we have a team of biologists ready to go out, so we have a pretty quick
11:35response time, anywhere from three to four hours on getting on these elk and collecting fresh samples and really trying
11:42to get at the bottom of what's going on.
11:47And then they'll collect a suite of samples, so blood sample.
11:52We can look at trace minerals and any kind of pathogens that the animals have been exposed to, and then
11:57we'll be collecting nasal swabs or pharyngeal swabs on some, and then they'll get ear tags in their ears so
12:04we can identify them from a distance, from the ground, and from the air when we're doing aerial surveys.
12:09And then lastly, they'll get the radio collar attached to the animal's neck, and then they're released as quick as
12:17possible at the same place where they're captured so they're not moved away from their home range, and they know
12:21where they're at, and then they're off to doing what they're doing, and we get to learn more about each
12:27of the species.
12:54Check fishing license real quick.
12:55I don't have one.
12:56You don't have one?
12:57No.
12:57Okay.
12:58Do you have a driver's license?
13:00Yeah, I do.
13:02All right.
13:03Cool.
13:04Send it out for me right here.
13:06Fishing contact in Willow Beach, 2729, and a Calcumy check on a mail out of Nevada.
13:12The gentleman's fishing.
13:13He has a line in the water.
13:14Said he doesn't have a fishing license.
13:16So up front with me, but I want to make sure all the stuff that's going on with him first
13:21before I go any farther into it.
13:243409, Reno and Wilson.
13:26Through all systems with a revoked class C, showing negative and Calcumy negative license of species.
13:3510-4, 10-6.
13:38He has a citation, and then we're also going to have a discussion.
13:41His driver's license is revoked.
13:43So I'm going to want to figure out how he got down here.
13:49Gabriel, come up here.
13:52Okay.
13:53So you are receiving a citation for not having a license, Gary.
13:55Do you know you need one?
13:57Yeah, I did know.
13:57Okay.
13:58So the other question I have, how did you get down here?
14:04Did you drive it?
14:05No, I didn't drive it.
14:05You didn't drive?
14:06Okay.
14:06You know your license is suspended, right?
14:08I know that.
14:08Okay.
14:08All right.
14:09Just making sure you're not driving.
14:11Right here's the violation of fishing without having a license, okay?
14:13That's what it comes out to.
14:14Yeah.
14:16I need your signature there.
14:17Just promise to take care of it.
14:18It's not an admission and guilt.
14:19If I bought the gear pass, would it drop the fine or no?
14:22I can't speak for the judge.
14:24A lot of people that get these licenses, they do buy it and then go to the court with that.
14:30So there's your copy, sir.
14:31And your driver's license back.
14:33All right.
14:33Any questions?
14:34Nope.
14:34That's it.
14:34All right.
14:34You're free to go, sir.
14:36He straight up told me he didn't have a license and without that license, he's not paying to
14:41protect the resource.
14:42So he decided not to buy it.
14:45So he took a chance and he got caught today.
14:48So that's how it goes.
14:51It's kind of interesting the way that Lake Mead, Lake Mojave and the Colorado River work.
14:56We have shared jurisdiction with Arizona on it.
14:59So Arizona can enforce fishing laws on the Nevada side.
15:02We can enforce fishing laws on the Arizona side.
15:05That's definitely a unique patrol area that we have where anybody, they have an Arizona license,
15:10they can fish on either side of the shore.
15:12They have a Nevada license, they can fish on any side of the shore.
15:18Morning, guys.
15:19Game Warden.
15:20Check fishing licenses real quick.
15:22Bought it online yesterday.
15:24Can I show you the email or confirmation?
15:26Yep.
15:26California.
15:27The guy said you guys honor California.
15:29We don't honor California.
15:31You don't?
15:32No.
15:32Not here.
15:33Then I'm fishing without a license.
15:57Two days ago, we rented the boat.
16:02They said you can go online, renew your California license, or get a Nevada or Arizona license.
16:09No.
16:09You can Arizona or Nevada is good, not California.
16:12There's no California shoreline on Lake Mead or Lake Mojave.
16:16What, you guys got your IDs on you?
16:17Yeah.
16:21Fishing contact with a beach, 227-29, and Cal Camino checks on two males out of California.
16:29So they don't have Nevada or Arizona fishing licenses.
16:34They were told by the marina guys that their California fishing license would be good, which
16:40is not the case.
16:4124-0-9, both subject for all systems, both valid California DL, both negative Cal Camino.
16:4810-4, 10-6.
16:51All right, guys.
16:52You said you renewed your California ones, right?
16:54Yeah.
16:54This is from two days ago when I just renewed it.
16:58Okay.
17:00And then yours is the same?
17:01Yeah.
17:02Why would this guy tell us?
17:04I don't know.
17:05The marina did change ownership before.
17:07They used to sell Arizona licenses down here.
17:10They used to.
17:11Hey, guys.
17:11Hang out at my tailgate for me.
17:13Okay.
17:15All right, guys.
17:16So here's what's happening.
17:19You are getting citations for fishing without the licenses, okay?
17:22Go fishing somewhere, you got to know the regulations.
17:24I know they...
17:25You got to be able to depend on the people that run the marina when you're a stranger in town.
17:29Right.
17:29But they're not the ones fishing.
17:31Ultimately, responsible, it's you, correct?
17:33Yeah.
17:33Okay.
17:34Yeah.
17:34I'm not arguing with you.
17:36I understand where you're coming from.
17:37Yep.
17:44The purpose of that was I wanted to see if you were lying to me or not.
17:49So it's going to be the same for both of you except the upper portion, okay?
17:52Down in the middle is going to be your violation, okay?
17:54I'm going to need your signatures.
17:56It's not an admission of guilt to promise to contact the court.
17:58Maybe you could put on there that they claim they were misinformed by the marina
18:02so that if we decide to claim this in court, we can do that.
18:06I'll add that on there for you.
18:07We had California licenses.
18:09There's your guys' licenses back.
18:14All right.
18:14There's your guys' copies.
18:15Do you have any questions for me?
18:16Yeah.
18:17When you started to hand our licenses back to them,
18:20thinking about just letting them go as a warning.
18:22I was never handing your licenses back to you when I was looking at your phones.
18:25It seemed like you were handing them back to me.
18:27No.
18:28All right.
18:29All right.
18:30Okay.
18:30I want to go over and talk to the people in the marina
18:32and tell them to quit drumming up business for you guys
18:35by giving bad information.
18:38Because I'm going to go space down.
18:40Okay.
18:40You didn't say something.
18:41I don't want any problems down there.
18:43No, no, no.
18:43You're not going to have any problems.
18:45Right.
18:45We just missed it for.
18:47Because they're giving lots of people bad information.
18:49Yeah.
18:50They're giving bad information in a guest.
18:53Yep.
18:53No, I understand.
18:54But like I said, too, it's on you guys, ultimately.
18:56Oh, I'm not arguing.
18:57I'm not arguing with you.
18:59Okay.
18:59No, I understand.
19:01Have a safe game.
19:03You too, sir.
19:08That was an interesting one.
19:10Usually I get that quite a bit.
19:12People asking if a California license is good.
19:15That was the most kickback I've ever had from people, though.
19:33I've got some elk meat from a case that we're going to take down to the processor that we
19:36usually take all of our meat to here at Elko.
19:40It came from a case from back in November this year.
19:44Two 40-year-old individuals ended up killing a bull elk for their 82-year-old dad.
19:49It was on their 82-year-old dad's elk tag.
19:51So neither of those guys had tags for themselves.
19:54So it ended up being an unlawful harvest of a big-game mammal without a valid tag, which
20:00is a felony in the state of Nevada.
20:02So we'll take this meat down to the processor.
20:04We'll get it processed.
20:05And then once we get a conviction on the case, we'll take that meat and we'll donate it to
20:10the families in need.
20:11Or they will go to feed the homeless so the meat doesn't get wasted.
20:16And we're going to get all the meat that are in these bags, pull it inside, and once it
20:21thaws out, then they'll be able to get everything processed for us.
20:26Everyone else, you want me to cut this tag off of that?
20:29Yeah.
20:30Alex, if you want that, you can take that thing.
20:34Like I say, it's been in the freezer, so it's all still pretty frozen.
20:38So we'll get what we can out of it, Alex.
20:42I appreciate it.
20:44Have a good one.
20:49In a case like this, it's very important to try to make sure that none of that meat gets
20:56wasted.
20:56It's important that animal gets used the way that it's supposed to.
21:04This is Nick.
21:06How's it going?
21:07Not too bad.
21:07How are you?
21:08Doing good.
21:09Doing good.
21:09Hey, I got a report on a person feeding deer.
21:13Oh, really?
21:14Where at?
21:16Spring Valley Parkway.
21:17Spring Valley Parkway.
21:19We'll head out to Spring Creek and run around and talk to some people that are feeding deer.
21:25Okay, buddy.
21:26All right, yep, not a problem.
21:27Okay.
21:27Bye.
21:28Bye.
21:29In the state of Nevada, it's illegal to feed deer.
21:32It congregates deer, brings them within closer contact with each other.
21:35So disease transmission between animals increases, brings predators down in.
21:40You know, the lions, coyotes, things like that will follow the deer around and it just kind
21:46creates more of a public safety problem.
21:48By people feeding them, these animals just get used to humans.
21:52They get habituated to humans and human activity and coming in and around people's houses and
21:58things like that.
21:59And it creates more of a problem for the deer and for the people.
22:04If people would just leave them alone, let them be wild, those deer would kind of move
22:08through the area.
22:09And the people that are doing the stuff specifically to feed wildlife, because they think they're
22:14helping, those are the ones that we want to curb the problem.
22:21They were feeding deer in the past.
22:25I don't know if they're feeding deer anymore or not, but these guys had little grain buckets
22:31that they'd fill up and they would take out there and strategically put them out there in
22:36the yard underneath the trees for the deer.
22:40I dig there.
22:41I can see them.
22:43There's a whole bunch of them in that backyard.
22:48There's a whole bunch of them laying in the front yard, too.
22:54You can kind of see the hay that's out here on the ground.
22:57And there's hay out here.
23:01I think I'm going to go find out what it is that they're doing with the hay, if they're
23:04actually feeding their horses or how it is that they're dropping hay so strategically,
23:10considering their horses are in some stalls on that side of the barn.
23:17You can see a bunch of the hay kicked out right out here and clear out the driveway, some back
23:23over there, some up there by the trees.
23:26And I mean, you can see where the hay is all behind there.
23:29And I mean, if they were just coming out and going down alongside the barn to feed the horses
23:34or coming out to go feed the horse that's back behind and they were dropping hay right there.
23:39I'm not going to say that that's intentionally feeding deer, but when it's kicked out in all
23:45these spots out here, you can definitely tell that, you know, he's kicking hay out for the
23:50deer.
23:55I mean, it goes right back into where the horses are at, so.
24:13How are you?
24:16Nick Brunson.
24:17Hi, Nick.
24:18I wanted to come by.
24:19I wanted to find out the hay that you guys have down out over there.
24:23Are you guys setting that out for the deer?
24:26Well, we sweep up the barn and throw it out there.
24:29Why is there a problem?
24:51Yeah, try not to.
24:53Why is it?
24:54It's just it'd fall under an intentional feeding of big aim, and that's a violation of the law.
25:00Really?
25:01Yeah.
25:01If you guys are feeding your horses and some of it ends up dropping out as you're going
25:06to throw it to the horses, that's a different story.
25:08Yeah, okay.
25:09But try not to intentionally put hay out for them.
25:13Okay, with that in mind, are there territories or places where this is against the law and
25:20places that aren't?
25:21It pretty much is.
25:22I've got a sheet that I can show you all the stuff where it says the specifics on it.
25:29I can show you what this is.
25:31I mean, this is an official written warning for feeding wildlife.
25:35Okay.
25:36But basically it tells you, you know, a person shall not intentionally feed big game mammals.
25:41It doesn't include incidental or unintentional feeding, like I say, but when you're sweeping
25:46the stuff out into a little spot out there for the deer, then that becomes intentional.
25:52Well, when we put it out front, we know the horses aren't going to get it unless they go
25:56out front.
25:57Right.
25:57They don't do that all the time.
25:58So the deer will pick up that hay that swept off the floors and stuff.
26:04Right.
26:04Okay.
26:05Basically, the biggest reasons feeding wildlife is prohibited.
26:08It acclimates the animals to the humans.
26:11It customs the animals to roadways so, you know, they could potentially get hit by vehicle,
26:15you know, endangering people and themselves.
26:17Foraging habits are reduced and disease transmission between animals can actually be increased.
26:23Attracting predators, you know, with the deer increasingly coming into a certain food source,
26:29it could attract predators to come into that same area.
26:33So, you know, it would in turn affect your horses, you, your wife, little dogs, cats, anything
26:41like that.
26:42But we've seen some instances like out here in Lamoille, we had an instance where some people
26:49had been feeding deer in the past.
26:51They were no longer feeding deer, but they were putting corn out for the turkeys that
26:55were out there.
26:56The deer were coming in inadvertently in the corn, but it was also bringing lions in.
27:02And a lot of the neighbors were starting to see lions, you know, up in their hay barns
27:06and things like that.
27:07And the kids are going out to throw hay to the horses and they've got a lion 10 feet away
27:12from them up in, you know, and it's like, that's, that's scary.
27:16You know, sooner or later, we're going to end up getting an attack from, you know, from
27:20that.
27:20But if I could, Mark, I'll just have you sign and date both of these worms down here.
27:26Okay.
27:27So am I admitting?
27:28You're just admitting to getting the official written warning from me.
27:32Okay.
27:33Well, I appreciate it, Mark.
27:34Thanks, Nick.
27:35Yep.
27:48There she's just laying up against the fence, kind of staying out of the wind, I guess.
27:53So I just had given him a warning for, for kicking the hay out on the, on the driveway,
28:01told him not to do that anymore.
28:03If, you know, some of the hay falls out when he goes to feed his horse, that's different.
28:07He's not intentionally feeding the deer at that time.
28:10And he took it really well.
28:13He understood the reasons behind why it is that we don't want people feeding wildlife.
28:17And he understands all that stuff.
28:33We're coming up on South Park Reservoir, one of our most popular local recreation areas
28:38for fishing and boating.
28:40This time of year, our fish are starting to run like a salmon spawn, kind of.
28:47They run up the river right here, like our brown trout will come up the river and attempt
28:52to spawn.
28:52Some of our rainbows will still come up in here and spawn when they do.
28:57A lot of the guys who are particularly fond of fly fishing like to come to this specific
29:03spot because they can catch a lot of fish and they can catch a lot of big fish.
29:13I'm Jason Jackson.
29:15I'm a game warden.
29:15I've been a game warden in the state of Nevada for 16 years.
29:20I patrol in the northeastern corner of Elko County, outside of Elko, Nevada.
29:27I worked in mining for about nine years.
29:30Mining is very environmentally based.
29:32And I've always been a hunter and involved in fishing and outdoor stuff my entire life.
29:37But seeing the mining side of it, when the mine I worked for started to become in its final
29:44stage, I decided to pursue a different career.
29:47As a game warden, you don't have to spend as much time behind a desk.
29:51And you get the opportunity to spend more time in the field, more time in our office, which
29:56is a four-wheel drive, and it's exciting because you never know what's going to be around the
30:01next corner.
30:05I'm watching two guys fish right now.
30:07I just want to make sure that I can see them both fishing.
30:12One guy just appears to be taking pictures of stuff.
30:15If you're on the riverside, it's required that you have a single barbless hook.
30:20People who fish with a spinner, say for instance, have to cut off two of the three hooks that
30:25are on those spinners and then pinch the barb down to make it legal.
30:29The restrictions we have on the riverside are because that is a spawning area, a spawning
30:33zone.
30:34Having a good day?
30:39I think I'd have to jump in like I did.
30:43Jump in just to catch a little old fish, or a little old fish.
30:46I'll show you a picture.
30:47This one?
30:48I just saw the one you released, yeah.
30:51Nice fish, huh?
30:53Well, since you're taking a break, it's just a quick check your fishing license.
30:56What kind of fly are you using?
30:58It's like a streamer.
31:00It's like a white streamer.
31:01It's barbless.
31:02Okay.
31:04That picture did it done justice.
31:06Right?
31:07Are you fishing with this guy around the corner, or is he not?
31:09I'm not with him.
31:11I know he's fly fishing up there, but I met him up there in that Tacoma.
31:15Right on.
31:16Thanks, man.
31:16Appreciate it.
31:17Good luck.
31:18In this particular stop, he's doing everything right.
31:25How you doing?
31:26Not too bad.
31:26How are you?
31:28It's still pretty wild.
31:30It just doesn't get old, does it?
31:32No, it really doesn't.
31:34It's my third one.
31:35I've been here for a ton of-
31:37That's beautiful.
31:38Right on.
31:39All right, what do you want to see?
31:40Okay, just check your fishing license.
31:42Make sure you've got a current and valid fishing license with you, and check to make sure
31:46you've got a single barbless on there.
31:50Outstanding.
31:51What's the biggest one you caught today so far?
31:54This one?
31:55Right on.
31:55Not measuring them, not weighing them, just give them a kiss and kick them loose, huh?
32:00I'm not even kissing them.
32:01Yeah?
32:02The fish that we're seeing in here are tremendous.
32:04Size-wise, 18 to 24 is pretty average of this little stretch right through here.
32:11Well, I'll let you get back to catching, Jeff.
32:13Hey, thanks for doing such a great job.
32:16Appreciate it.
32:17For me, and checking people who are doing the right thing the right way is just as exhilarating,
32:24I guess, than it would be to issue a citation all day long.
32:28To see these guys appreciate, number one, what we're doing as a wildlife agency, and number
32:32two, appreciate what I do as a profession and respect that makes my day.
32:38Those are not the people that I get to speak with or talk to every single day, and it just
32:43makes my job a lot easier when I deal with people like I just dealt with.
33:00In patrolling out here at South Fork Reservoir on the state park, our enforcement duties include
33:05inspection of vessels to make sure that they don't have anything that could be potentially
33:10detrimental to the environment or this reservoir specifically.
33:13Stay game, Marty.
33:14Can I talk to you guys for a second?
33:18How are you guys doing today?
33:19I'm losing.
33:20Pretty good.
33:21Do you mind putting on the shore?
33:23Yeah.
33:23Real quick, please.
33:25I just want to check and make sure you have your life jacket, okay?
33:28One there and one there.
33:30Outstanding.
33:31So you're not required to register this vessel because it does not have a motor on it, okay?
33:36However, I usually do the Macy's species stickers.
33:40Correct.
33:41And I don't see one on here at this time?
33:42Yeah, I usually buy, I think it's seven of them.
33:47Do they have a Gregor?
33:48This one.
33:49Son's got another.
33:50You know about the law then?
33:51More jet skis, yeah.
33:52Okay.
33:54When's the last time this was registered, this one?
33:57I see like a 1981 sticker on there.
34:02That's probably the last time my dad had an electric motor used out the marshes sometimes.
34:07Okay.
34:08He never used the electric motor on it, so I...
34:10You never got it registered again.
34:12Okay.
34:12So for you to put it on the water, you should have had an aquatic invasive species sticker
34:17for it?
34:18Yeah, and...
34:19Did you happen to purchase one for this year?
34:21I haven't this year.
34:22I usually do them when I do the jet ski licenses.
34:25All together and online.
34:27Okay.
34:27Do we happen to have a driver's license with you today?
34:29Yeah.
34:30Let me go ahead.
34:31I'm here.
34:32Okay.
34:32The AIS sticker, the majority of vessels are required to have, is called our aquatic invasive
34:37species sticker.
34:39And basically, we have had over the years invasive species, such as a quagga mussel, invade a lot
34:46of bordering and surrounding states, as well as the southern portion of our state.
34:49So we have inspections, so we can look for these types of invasive species.
34:54Just hang tight for me one second, okay, Dolo?
34:56Let's go.
35:22Let's go.
35:25So our aquatic invasive species sticker that we have is designed to protect our waterways,
35:31and it's been since 1981 since he has.
35:34First things first, I'm going to give you a driver's license and your fishing license
35:37back to you.
35:39The aquatic invasive species sticker, you obviously knew about it because you told me you have
35:43five vessels, so I probably would have just...
35:45Six or seven.
35:45Six or seven, okay.
35:47They're getting too expensive, too.
35:49They are.
35:50They're starting to go up a little bit, but they're important to have, right?
35:53There's obviously a reason that we have them, so there's a couple different violations,
35:59fail to purchase or having an expired one or never buying one at all, right?
36:04So I am citing you for fail to purchase a current AIS sticker.
36:09The minimum bale set by the court is $50 plus 65 administration assessor fee for $115.
36:15Are you serious?
36:16I am.
36:16Holy crap.
36:17It's pretty important that we...
36:20Understandably, this couldn't hold a lot of water, but the potential is always there,
36:23right?
36:23So that's why we have them.
36:25We don't have our inspection station open yet, but I gave you until the 6th of May to
36:29take care of the citations.
36:30We need more stuff down at the bottom here.
36:33Right?
36:35Well, because you don't have an AIS sticker, I can't let you go back out on the water.
36:38Are you serious?
36:41Can I get one online?
36:43But, uh, yes, you can.
36:44Because I thought about that on the way out here.
36:46You can, as long as you have physical proof that you have one and you're waiting on the
36:49paperwork.
36:51Well, sir, I'm going to let you get back to fishing.
36:53Thanks for your time.
36:54Good luck to you, huh?
36:55If you're out here...
36:56I'm going to hop in and go fishing with you.
37:05So today, as far as this time of year goes, it's probably a typical day, maybe a little
37:12bit warmer than most days this time of year.
37:15Everybody's itching to go do something right now this time of year because of the fact
37:19that it's getting nice and it's 53 degrees.
37:22So, uh, it's pretty nice to have a sunshine and enjoyable day that we had today.
37:45There's some deer in somebody's yard right over here we're going to go look at.
37:49It's just laying in the yard.
37:50And you can see this, a buck and a doe right over here.
37:55I don't see any physical abnormalities.
37:58It would cause me to think that that deer is injured and can't get up.
38:02So you can tell that they're really pretty domesticated to people and that goes hand in
38:08hand with the feeding of them.
38:09I pulled up here with the truck and they're just laying there looking at me like, you know,
38:13it's another day.
38:14And that's not typical deer behavior.
38:19Hey, how's it going, Audrey?
38:20Hey, so I've got a possible mountain lion sighting in the Sundance Drive area.
38:26He said it was about 150 yards from his back deck.
38:30Okay.
38:31I'll head that way here shortly.
38:33Awesome.
38:34Thanks, Vic.
38:35Yep, thank you.
38:36All right.
38:37Bye-bye.
38:38And this is exactly the type of thing that we're dealing with here with the feeding of wildlife.
38:42The lions are going to follow the deer and the deer are coming in because people were out
38:46here feeding them.
38:50It's scary because you've got little kids, you know, that are out at bus stops and we
38:54don't want to have to deal with a mountain lion attacking a kid at a bus stop.
38:59In the state of Nevada, it's illegal to feed deer.
39:01It congregates deer, brings them within closer contact with each other.
39:05So disease transmission between animals increases, brings predators down in.
39:10You know, the lions, coyotes, things like that will follow the deer around and it just kind
39:15of creates more of a public safety problem.
39:19It's in an area that's pretty close to where I've had calls in the past for deer being fed.
39:26It's a likely place for a lion to be walking in this more natural stuff back here, but how
39:34habituated some of these, some of these things can be.
39:37They could be, you know, they could be walking right down the middle of, you know, where some
39:41of these apartments are.
39:49You can see all the snow that's on top of all these ones and that one was turned up and
39:54there wasn't any snow on top of it.
39:56So it's almost like something had brushed down through here, but I'm not seeing any tracks.
40:00It could have been through here around the time that it was snowing and all those tracks
40:06are going to be covered up now.
40:08Young juvenile that may have just got weaned off of the mom, they're going to have a track
40:12that's about that big, you know.
40:13They're not going to be super big like, you know, a big com would be, an older cat.
40:20Could be anywhere in this stuff.
40:22Being this close to apartment complex, the gym, all these houses back over here, I mean,
40:27that's a huge public safety issue, you know, and it'd be nice to find this lion.
40:40A couple of spots here where it looks like it could be a track, something going underneath
40:44that fence, and then there's a few old tracks out here on that road that I can see, but
40:49none of them that really look like a lion track.
40:52Lion tracks are really circular.
40:54A lot of times they walk more in a straight line.
40:57Coyotes and dogs will do that somewhat, but they'll walk a little bit more offset.
41:00The easiest way to tell a lion track is you won't find any claw marks inside the track
41:06when you're looking at it.
41:07I don't think that it's still here if it did come through, but if we get more calls on
41:13it here in the near future, then we know that we've got a problem and it's something that
41:18we're going to have to deal with pretty rapidly.
41:20We'll definitely keep this one on the radar and try to get that lion out of here.
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