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00:10How in the world would they bring those things out here and just dump them?
00:14We're catching mountain goats.
00:16Identify animals that may be carrying pathogens, impacting the herd.
00:20I'm seeing two hunters have a set of decoys up in the water.
00:24They're out of game, Morton. How you guys doing today?
00:26When you pull away from a camp, you don't know if he's coming out with a gun.
00:32We want to get them cool as fast as possible to limit the number of cells that are going to
00:36die.
00:37I don't know why they would cut the heads off and just leave the rest of them out here.
00:41It's just beyond me.
00:45Nevada, a land of extremes.
00:49From the strip to the summits, it's wild country.
00:52Home to more than 900 species and a way of life worth protecting.
00:59Preserved for the people and the wildlife that call it home.
01:03One team stands guard.
01:06This is Nevada Wild.
01:26This hunter is hunting this lower section.
01:28So what I'm going to do is go kind of hide in the brush down there and just spend some
01:35time watching them.
01:36A few more birds that are going to be able to harvest and see what I come up with.
01:42My name is John Anderson.
01:43I'm a game Morton with the Nevada Department of Wildlife.
01:45I have two wildlife management areas in Lincoln County that have a lot of duck hunting.
01:51They hunt geese, Canadian geese, snow geese.
01:55I'm seeing two hunters that are, they have a set of decoys up in the water.
02:01And then they're hunting from a blind that's up on shore.
02:04So I'm going to see how close we can get without getting exposed and maintaining kind of a covert presence.
02:15Waterfowl hunting is one of the most regulated activities you can participate in.
02:20This is about as close as I want to get.
02:23Be able to see everything from right here.
02:25We say when you can do it.
02:27There's different species that you can take different numbers of ducks.
02:32There's different types of weapons you can and can't use.
02:35Different shot you can and can't use.
02:38And I as a game warden really have to understand those laws as well because they're not simple.
02:44So I've been watching them here for a little while.
02:47Not much action this morning.
02:48Not much birds flying around.
02:50I'm just going to go over and make contact with them.
02:56So I couldn't tell from up there, but they actually are on the island.
03:01So I'm going to have to throw my waders on to go out to talk to them.
03:21So we've got some birds flying around now.
03:44How are you guys doing today?
03:46Hey, good.
03:47Nevada game warden.
03:48I'm just going to come and talk to you guys real quick, okay?
04:04Out here is usually really good fishing.
04:07You'll see guys usually catch three to five pound trout out here.
04:1225, 26, 27 inches long.
04:15So, I mean, really, really good trout fishing.
04:18I take a walk down here and check and see if this guy's fishing.
04:31Just randomly parked off to the side of the road and nobody down here fishing, I guess.
04:36It'd be a good spot to be fishing.
04:41This is Nick?
04:42Nick, it's Nat.
04:43Hey, what's happening?
04:44Danny Alexander of South Fork.
04:47He was walking a dog.
04:48He followed some ATV tracks that cut through a field.
04:50And he says that he saw two elk with their heads cut off.
04:54And I said, like, are they fresh?
04:56He says, yeah, they're fresh.
04:58Like, we're talking super fresh.
04:59So.
05:00Right, yeah, no, I'm out here at South Fork right now, Nat.
05:03So, yeah, if you wouldn't mind texting it to me.
05:06All right.
05:07She was saying that the caller said that it sounds like there's two elk with their heads cut off.
05:12So I got the address.
05:14I'm just going to head over there now and meet up with this guy and find out where these carcasses
05:19are at.
05:24Yeah, hello.
05:25Hello, is this Danny?
05:27Yeah, this is Danny.
05:28I'm calling about the carcasses that you found.
05:31Would you mind if I came over to your house and talk to you about that?
05:34I'll take you over there and show you where it's at.
05:37Okay.
05:37That sounds good, Danny.
05:38I appreciate it.
05:40And I'll see you there here in a few.
05:50Nevada game, Lord, and I'm just going to come and talk to you guys real quick, okay?
05:54I saw you got one already.
05:56Yeah, that's the first one I got to shoot at today and I got it.
05:59Nice.
06:00Where are you guys from?
06:01Vegas.
06:02Yeah.
06:03Cool.
06:03Just up for the day?
06:04Yeah.
06:05So if a bird does start coming in while I'm talking to you guys, just let me know that you're
06:09going to shoot before you shoot, okay?
06:11Okay, cool.
06:11And then I'll get down and you guys can keep hunting.
06:13That's super cool.
06:15See, I'll just see you guys' licenses and then I'll check your guns.
06:18Yes, sir.
06:19Do you know what kind of bird you got there?
06:22Possibly a scott?
06:23Yeah.
06:24Yep, it's a scott.
06:25This is both of our first seasons, duck hunting, really hunting in general.
06:29Cool.
06:30Been enjoying it, man.
06:31Yeah, it's a good way to get out and enjoy the natural world, you know?
06:36Oh, yeah, absolutely.
06:38And then can I see the ammo you guys are using and your shotguns?
06:41Yes, sir.
06:42Okay.
06:44Can I see your shotgun, sir?
06:46Is it plugged?
06:47It is, yes.
06:48Okay.
06:48A lot of shotguns can hold three, four, five, six, seven.
06:53So that plug keeps it so they can only have three, which gives the ducks a fighting chance
06:59as they're flying away.
07:01So there's two in the magazine and none in the chamber.
07:04Correct.
07:04If they only have three shots, they have a really hard time taking an over limit if they haven't properly
07:11identified that group of ducks that's flying in.
07:14Cool.
07:15All three of these shotguns are plugged correctly and you guys got everything.
07:19You got one bird.
07:20The morning's young.
07:21The morning's young.
07:22There's a duck coming.
07:24Oh, here we go.
07:25You're going to call him in.
07:30Yeah, it's probably not going to help that I'm here right now.
07:33No worries.
07:34Thanks for being cooperative.
07:35You guys are the kind of guys I love checking in the field.
07:38Man, thank you.
07:43It's always refreshing when you make contact with a group of hunters.
07:47They got their plug shotguns.
07:49They got their licenses, their stamps, and they're really cordial.
07:53That's always a great experience to check a group of hunters like that.
07:58So we're going to head down to Nesbitt.
08:02From what it sounded like, there was a lot more shooting going on down there.
08:09Hello, it's Anderson.
08:10This is Tyler Eaton.
08:11How you doing?
08:12Tyler, what's going on?
08:13Well, up there behind my place, there's a door with a front leg completely useless.
08:20Swinging like a compound fracture?
08:23It's flopping around.
08:24Okay.
08:26Okay, well, I'm down in Key Pitten right now.
08:29Before I get there, could you try to find her and determine her health situation, and we'll go from there.
08:35All right, sounds good.
08:36Thanks, Tyler.
08:37This is one of my neighbors.
08:40Sounds like she's struggling pretty good in the town of Panaka.
08:43She's got a broken leg and isn't getting around very well.
08:46So go see what's going on with that.
08:49We got about an hour up there.
08:58Well, I'm going to meet up with the reporting party out here in South Fork.
09:02I'm going to talk to him to find out where these carcasses are at.
09:19How are we doing?
09:20It's Nick Brunson.
09:22Okay.
09:25Go out here.
09:26You can probably take this over there to the edge of the sagebrush, and then we can just walk it
09:30if you want.
09:31Okay.
09:36Yeah, I saw this this morning, and I said, I've got to call you guys because it's relatively fresh.
09:41Right.
09:42Those ATV tracks went there a couple of days ago.
09:45That's why when I saw them today, I thought the guy was out there fooling around.
09:49Right.
09:49And until we got a little bit deeper in the sagebrush, and I thought, that's kind of strange.
09:54You can see where they've...
09:55Yeah, you can see where it looks like they drug something.
09:58Yeah.
09:59Out through there.
10:00I'm guessing that's what the birds are flying for.
10:03Yeah, probably yes.
10:15Boy, they definitely were dragging something.
10:18Looks like they made a couple of different little loops out here.
10:22If somebody did kill these elk and just cut the heads off and leave the rest of them out there,
10:27I mean, that's a pretty big thing.
10:28I mean, you could go all the way up to felony unlawful harvest of a big game animal.
10:36You're absolutely right.
10:39There they be.
10:41Why in the world would they bring those things out here and just dump them?
10:56You're absolutely right.
10:59There they be.
11:02Why in the world would they bring those things out here and just dump them?
11:07It looks like cattle.
11:08Like cow cows.
11:09Cow cows.
11:10Moo cows.
11:11Yeah.
11:11These elk, they're regular livestock cows.
11:14They're some of these cows decapitated and just left sitting out here.
11:19I don't know why they would cut the heads off and just leave the rest of them out here.
11:22Yeah.
11:24It's just beyond me.
11:26Do you know anybody from right out here in Lucky Nugget that has?
11:30That has cows?
11:31A guy by over there, Mike, runs them, but they're over in Lee.
11:37Right.
11:38If I told Mike about this, he'd probably go ballistic.
11:41Uh, yeah.
11:43I think most of the cattle ranchers probably would.
11:46I don't know if this was the landowner.
11:48Maybe these cows died of natural causes and they just brought them out here to get rid of them.
11:53Or this could be somebody shooting somebody's livestock and bringing them out here and cutting the heads off.
11:59It's a violation of the state.
12:00There's a pasture down here.
12:03Uh-huh.
12:03Uh, it's, uh, 640 acres.
12:06It's all fenced off.
12:07Mike uses that in the, in the summer.
12:10In the summertime to run cows?
12:11But he doesn't use it now.
12:12Right.
12:13There's nothing on it now.
12:14I'm wondering if these are ones that people had had any of the houses or anything like that around here.
12:20It'd have to be something relatively close to drag them all the way out this way.
12:24What it looks like to me is somebody's, somebody's livestock and they just decided to decapitate them and bring them
12:30out.
12:30So, you would figure that they would, if they were going to be killing them, that they'd be butchering them.
12:37You would think so, unless they got some kind of...
12:40Right, unless they got sick of some sort.
12:43That one looks like it could have been.
12:44That one, yeah, that one definitely looks like it could have been.
12:47But, I mean, you can even see that, you know, the hooves, how, how long those things are.
12:53They definitely didn't spend a whole lot of time, um, out in the wide open.
12:59Because they would have wore those things down.
13:01That one's toes definitely are long.
13:04One of these cows is very malnourished.
13:06If they're not feeding these animals, that's a complete violation of the law.
13:11That's animal cruelty.
13:12Unless, like you say, unless they were, had some sort of disease and they just ended up dying.
13:19But why would they cut the heads off?
13:21Yeah.
13:23Maybe, maybe yard ornaments?
13:25I don't know.
13:27Well, I'll give you a ride back over to your house and then I'll come back over this way and...
13:31Actually, if you just want to get to work, it won't hurt me to walk.
13:34Are you sure?
13:35I walk that far every day.
13:37I certainly appreciate it.
13:38You bet.
13:41Pretty disturbing.
13:42Doesn't matter if it's wildlife or livestock.
13:46With this being livestock, it's not so much a Department of Wildlife matter.
13:51It's going to be more of a Department of Agriculture thing.
13:54I'm going to collect everything that I can off of these animals.
13:57Follow some of the evidence.
13:58See if it can lead me to where, potentially, these animals came from.
14:01To be able to give the Department of Ag so that they can further their investigation.
14:06I mean, to me, it looks like it was potentially two roping steers.
14:09I can tell that they're males.
14:10May have horns.
14:12And that's why they cut the heads off.
14:14I mean, you can't even see any brands on any of them.
14:17It's one of the first things that I would be looking for is a brand.
14:25When I was coming up here on that street, it almost looked like there was drag marks on that road.
14:30I don't know.
14:30To me, like I say, it's pretty disturbing.
14:32It'd be nice to find out the reason why.
14:43I just got a deer.
14:44It's got a broken leg and it's wandering around.
14:48Every single week, I have to put a deer down in one of these towns because people are feeding them.
14:55Because they're bringing them in.
14:56They have that food source.
15:01How's it going, Nathan?
15:02Not too bad.
15:03He said it looked like she was trying to jump the fence and go in behind the Andersons.
15:08Okay.
15:09I'm going to hike around, just walk around the alfalfa field and then go in behind the Andersons and see
15:13if I can scare her out.
15:15Did they say what kind of injury it looked like?
15:16Yeah, she had a broken leg and I guess it was swinging and possibly compound fracture.
15:22Okay.
15:23All right.
15:23Yep.
15:24Appreciate your help.
15:25Yep.
15:30I work with the local law enforcement closer than I do other game wardens because they're three hours away.
15:35They can assist me on stuff like this.
15:37I'm their backup.
15:42So this is our reporting party's house.
15:46So I'm actually going to stop and start hiking around.
15:58If it needs to be euthanized, then, you know, that's part of what we do.
16:02This human-wildlife interaction is not good for these deer.
16:07So people feed these deer, bring them into town and think they're helping them out.
16:11And then they try to jump a fence and get their leg caught and snap it in half, which is
16:15more than likely what happened here.
16:30So it looks like she's not over here.
16:31We're going to head over across the street.
16:37Yeah, he made it sound like she was leaving this field here and trying to cross this fence and couldn't
16:45get across it.
16:48So she could be back in here.
17:05So I got a deer right here.
17:08It looked like she was headed that way.
17:11It's without too much of a struggle.
17:16The deer, it ran away from me, which is a really good thing.
17:21Its health is at a level where it can avoid things that it doesn't like, as in me.
17:26So that's a really good sign.
17:28If it can get around this well, maybe it's not one we put down yet.
17:34Or, you know, maybe it happened really recently and it hasn't had the negative effects on its body condition yet.
17:42So that's kind of a tricky situation.
17:44Do you let that take effect on its body and waste away to a really sick animal?
17:51Or do you put it out of its misery while it's still in a relatively good body condition?
17:59I feel comfortable leaving this situation.
18:01I can keep track of it over the next week or so.
18:04But for right now, I'm fine with leaving this deer alone and seeing what it does.
18:21I'm going to continue to follow these tracks down and see if I can talk to any of these houses
18:27here
18:28and see if maybe they've seen anybody bringing those carcasses up here.
18:43You can kind of see where the gravel's been moved.
18:48And you can kind of see somewhat of a directionality of the move.
18:57See if these people will tell me if they've seen anything or not.
19:10How are we doing?
19:11Stay game, Morton.
19:12Did you happen to see a four-wheeler or side-by-side or anything like that last night dragging a
19:18cow up the road at all?
19:20Uh, well, I thought I heard a bike.
19:23Guys go by here on four-wheelers.
19:25All the time, I'm sure.
19:27Yeah, it was dark.
19:28Do you know of anybody that has cows out over in here?
19:31I hear they had some cows.
19:32I saw a couple of cows over here the other day.
19:35Like a red one and a dark brown one?
19:38Well, yeah, red, like a her fruit or something.
19:41Uh-huh.
19:41Yeah.
19:43Well, I certainly appreciate it.
19:50So at least I know the deer come into this guy's yard.
19:53And then he said that some folks kind of across the draw from him had cows.
20:00Coming from over there, I guess I'll see where the drag marks take me.
20:08Now I'm following the drag marks down to here.
20:11Maybe these folks can shed some light on your dead cows because it kind of looks like the drag marks
20:18are right, right here even.
20:23There's two four-wheelers.
20:25Even the four-wheeler has the same tire tracks, which could explain why that guy heard two of them.
20:33There we are.
20:39There we are.
21:04There's like a side-by-side parked right over here in the shed.
21:17It could be that these things potentially die to natural causes, and they just drug them out there to dispose
21:23of them and just cut the heads off.
21:25I don't know why.
21:26Or whether they, you know, were malnourished, all those different things could weigh in, and we could potentially have some
21:33sort of violation.
21:39Nobody was home.
21:41I don't know if that's just because they don't want to come to the door, but I'll take the information
21:48that I have, give that to the Department of Ag.
21:52And if they need my help, I can come down and help them do interviews on these folks and figure
21:57out what's going on with these cows.
22:18We're going to do a nasal swab.
22:26We're going to try to identify animals that may be carrying pathogens that are impacting the herd and survival of
22:37the kids.
22:37So we need to get kids recruited to replace these aging, aging population of mountain goats.
22:45But it's a gorgeous mountain.
22:47It's great, great mountain goat habitat.
22:51Nate?
22:52What are we going to put on board for the animals?
22:55Just Draxin?
22:56Draxin and Vanamine.
22:58My name is Nate LaHue.
23:00We're doing several big game captures, and I'm providing the veterinary support for that.
23:04The disease of concern that we're looking for today is what we call mycoplasma ovale pneumoniae, or MOV for short.
23:10And that's the disease that causes these pneumonia outbreaks.
23:15Because they're aging out, because we can't bring in new animals, because they're not a native species, this is really
23:21our only opportunity to preserve the herd.
23:26So just a quick rundown of why we're here.
23:30The East Humboldts experienced a disease event back in 2009, 2010.
23:35And the kids were dying a month or two after birth.
23:40So this population has slowly went from 160 and just kept on 120, 100, 80, 60.
23:49And now we're probably in the 40 range.
23:52We're sampling animals through the blood, through the nasal swab and the tonsil swab to determine who has what pathogens.
24:01So we're hoping to turn this herd around.
24:19The mountain goats, they are definitely an incredibly unique animal.
24:23They're adapted to these high alpine environments.
24:27And so their ability to kind of survive and thrive in difficult terrain is pretty amazing.
24:36Capture crew up on the mountain is trying to get these animals and chase them for the minimum time possible.
24:45We don't like them chased any more than two minutes.
24:48They're running for long of that.
24:49They're down.
24:49They're hobbled.
24:51There's going to be some constriction of blood flow.
24:53And all of that is going to increase stress and increase the chance that they're going to get what we
24:58call capture myopathy.
25:09There's a lot of different forms of capture myopathy, but a severe case can result in death.
25:15That's one of our biggest concerns.
25:30When they come into the base camp, what's important is the loading and unloading of the animals from the helicopter.
25:39Oh, man, that's awesome.
25:41We have five stations to accommodate up to five animals brought in, slung underneath the helicopter.
25:47We have a way station.
25:54We have a team of people that will be dedicated to each of those tables.
25:58This capture base camp is truly a base camp.
26:04So, we put the blindfold on to help keep her calm, decrease the amount of sensory information that she's getting.
26:13Our main role in these captures is monitoring the health of the animal, taking biological samples.
26:21Got it.
26:23Release.
26:24He's a big boy.
26:26We're monitoring temperature.
26:27We're monitoring heart weight.
26:28If the temperature's high, we may put in a catheter, give fluids, get the animal cool.
26:34Obviously, if you have any wounds, any injuries, we would deal with those.
26:39We're monitoring the temperature.
26:41The biggest concern is if they get too hot.
26:44Capture myopathy.
26:45It's, unfortunately, fairly common in undulates from basically overheating and over muscle use.
26:51If they were too high, like over 104, we give them oxygen, maybe IV fluids, depending on how hot they
26:57are.
26:58Over 105.8 degrees Fahrenheit, cells start dying.
27:03We want to get them cool as fast as possible to limit the number of cells that are going to
27:08die.
27:09And that is going to increase their chances of recovering.
27:13101.9.
27:14Okay, that's a perfect temperature for her.
27:18So, right now, I'm just trying to get some blood.
27:21It's a bit challenging to find these veins when they got their nice winter coats.
27:27You can see how they have these long guard hairs.
27:30And then underneath, all this really fine stuff, that undercoat, is what really keeps them warm.
27:37This first, I'm just going to check her for any injuries, all her legs.
27:43Lance here is going to find a little spot without much hair to see if we can get an ultrasound
27:48probe on her and see if she's pregnant.
27:51No wounds on the other side, right, guys?
27:53No blood.
27:54We got blood up here at the horns.
28:11We got a big hole of some sort, potentially a juvenile.
28:17Oh, looks like you probably got a fish.
28:20I love that.
28:21That makes me happy.
28:22I love seeing people catch fish.
28:27My name is Zach Bowman.
28:28I'm a game warden for the state of Nevada.
28:30Been patrolling for about three years.
28:31I'm in Winnemucca right now.
28:33I grew up hunting and fishing and outdoor stuff, dirt bike riding, camping.
28:38And so, I always wanted to be in law enforcement.
28:41And I figured this is kind of the best of both worlds.
28:43The highs.
28:44What do you got?
28:45Hands.
28:46Yeah, I was just locked up on shore right here.
28:48Oh, really?
28:49Yeah.
28:50So, you just caught it with your hands?
28:51Yeah, I was just rolling right up.
28:53I was laying on the side.
28:55Okay.
28:55Do me a favor.
28:56Go ahead and put it back in the water.
28:57Let's see.
28:58Do you want to take it home or are you not taking fish home?
29:01No, we're just catching the reef.
29:03Ah, it doesn't look like he's doing very good.
29:05I think he's going to end up dying.
29:08How old are you?
29:09Uh, 13.
29:10Okay, do you have your fishing license?
29:12Yes, sir.
29:12That's awesome.
29:14Brother and sister?
29:15Yes, sir.
29:16Awesome.
29:17Jacob, you got your junior license.
29:19Expires in May of this year, okay?
29:21Make sure you keep paying attention to that.
29:22Yeah, we're coming up.
29:23We got about three more months.
29:24All right.
29:25Did you get to hunt at all last year?
29:27Yes.
29:27Yeah?
29:27What did you hunt for?
29:28A deer when I got it.
29:29You did?
29:30Yeah.
29:30What did you get?
29:31A doe.
29:32A doe?
29:32Yeah.
29:33Congratulations.
29:34Is that your first deer?
29:35Yes.
29:35Oh, dude.
29:36That's so cool.
29:37Heck yeah.
29:38You feel good about that?
29:39Yeah.
29:39Yeah?
29:40What did you kill it with?
29:41270.
29:42270?
29:42How far?
29:44Roughly 100 yards.
29:45Okay.
29:46That's a good shot.
29:47Awesome.
29:47Okay.
29:48Have fun, guys.
29:50Don't worry about him.
29:51I'm going to come back this afternoon, and I'll take him out of the water, okay?
29:54All right.
29:57I love it.
29:58It makes me so happy.
30:00That's our future.
30:02That's why I'm doing this.
30:04I hope that my contact with them leaves an impact on them, you know, knowing that, hey,
30:10he cares about what I'm doing as an outdoorsman, so I definitely have a stake in this.
30:20So we're rolling into Jiminy Reservoir, which is a body of water up in northern Nevada.
30:31We've got a camp here with a gentleman walking around, so we'll go chat with him, see what's
30:35going on.
30:35Even if he's not fishing, it's nice to just introduce yourself.
30:39Maybe he saw something that he can't tell anyone else because maybe there's no cell service
30:44here or he can't get out, so we're going to roll up and make contact right now.
30:52A few fishing poles doesn't look like any are in the water right now, but we'll go see
30:55how his luck is.
30:56Yes, I haven't checked a whole lot of people with luck here, so it's always exciting to
31:00see what's going on.
31:02Hi, pup.
31:02What are you doing?
31:03Hi, pups.
31:04Oh, look at you.
31:11How are you?
31:12Good, Hank.
31:13How are you?
31:13Good.
31:14How's the fishing?
31:15Terrible.
31:16Is it?
31:16No bites, nothing.
31:17How long have you been here?
31:18Two days.
31:19Two days?
31:20We fished early yesterday, but the wind was so bad.
31:22Was it?
31:23Oh, man.
31:24No luck, huh?
31:25No, not a thing.
31:26Bummer.
31:27Dang it.
31:27Who all is fishing?
31:28My wife and my grandson, my older grandson.
31:31Okay, you fishing too?
31:32Yes.
31:32Okay, cool.
31:33Well, I'll go ahead and check licenses then.
31:35Okay.
31:36Let me grab one.
31:40Hi, guys.
31:40How are you?
31:41Good.
31:41How are you?
31:42Good.
31:42Are you having fun?
31:43Yeah.
31:43Good.
31:44Okay.
31:45Awesome.
31:47All right.
31:48You're...
31:48That's my hunting fishing life.
31:50Yes, it is.
31:50You just got it too, huh?
31:51Right before this trip.
31:53Of course, you're good for a year.
31:55There you go.
31:56Cool.
31:56Cool.
31:56Thanks, boss.
31:57That's mine and his also.
31:58Okay.
32:00You're good.
32:01You got about another month.
32:02Yeah.
32:02Well, I appreciate it, sir.
32:04Good luck to you.
32:05Good to see you.
32:11So, real cordial.
32:12Obviously, it doesn't seem to be a threat.
32:15But when you pull away from a camp, you don't know the interaction and, you know, what's
32:21going on inside that trailer right now.
32:22So, pulling away, you kind of want to keep them in your line of sight still.
32:26I'm watching in my mirror right now because I want to make sure that no one's coming out,
32:30waving me down.
32:30Maybe he's got another question or maybe he's coming out with a gun, you know.
32:36Always got to be cognizant of that kind of thing.
32:37It's like any other law enforcement job.
32:39You never know what's going to happen around the next corner.
32:56We got blood up here at the horns.
32:59Just a little bit at the base.
33:00Small laceration.
33:02I don't know.
33:03We can clean that up with a little bit of chlorhexidine.
33:05Okay.
33:06All right.
33:06So, we're radio marketing these mountain goats today.
33:09This will give us survival over time movement data.
33:13These callers are going to track and send us points.
33:16And we can continue to develop a health profile for these individuals over time.
33:34Mike, look at his bottom lip.
33:37Looks like contagious ectima or...
33:39Oh, let's take a photo of that.
33:45Oh, yeah.
33:47Yeah, that's definitely it.
33:49CE.
33:51We're going to have to warn people.
33:53Don't try not to touch the mouth.
33:55When you're seeing a rash on the mouth, it's a disease that's called sore mouth or ORF.
34:00It's a viral disease.
34:02It's actually a zoonotic disease, meaning that if you touch that without gloves, you can get it and you'll get
34:08pustules and rash on your hands.
34:11It's not a fun disease to have.
34:14Yeah, that's contagious ectima.
34:19So, don't scratch your nose with your claws.
34:22And if you do see a sore, let somebody know.
34:27Just trying to ultrasound her.
34:32What we're doing is we're trying to see if she's pregnant.
34:37So, we're just going to get her back in the sling, get her nice and situated in here, and they're
34:45going to take her back up on the mountain and let her go just where they found her.
34:50One, two.
35:21We had time to get an ultrasound in.
35:24Fortunately, not pregnant, but 11-year-old, it's kind of what we expect.
35:30Not a lot of productivity left at that age, but we're seeing, you know, them younger goats coming here too.
35:36Yeah, that was nice to see a two-year-old Billy.
35:38Exactly.
35:39That's really nice to see.
35:40This is the future.
35:41Today, overall, was a success.
35:43We got all the samples we needed.
35:45Every animal went back on the mountain safely.
35:47They haven't been struggling.
35:48They haven't been hot.
35:50So, that bodes really well for how they're going to do post-release.
35:54Got some good information, great samples.
35:57It'll be interesting to see how the tests come back.
36:00As we expect, as the old age of this population are becoming unproductive, and so it reminds us of the
36:08urgency to get this population back on its feet with some younger animals.
36:30So, Thacker is one of those reservoirs that's kind of tough to sneak and see what's going on.
36:36So, I'll kind of glass right here, but see, like I can't really, I can kind of pull off the
36:41road, but there's not much that I can do.
36:45You know, I might be able to see someone on the dam of the reservoir.
36:50But, you know, of course, I've got to be watching my mirrors and see even from here.
36:57It's hard to tell if there's someone actually there.
37:01Oh, yeah, it looks like there's a car there.
37:20Got a car here.
37:23It looks like at least two people.
37:26So, we'll check licenses, see if they're doing any good.
37:31It's like he's reeling in.
37:38Yeah, just one second, we got one reeling in, bud.
37:41Oh, you do?
37:42Yeah.
37:42What do you, hey, look at that.
37:46You got to make sure you guys got your licenses.
37:48Yeah.
37:49Not keeping too many.
37:50Yeah.
37:51Here's mine.
37:52Outstanding.
37:53Cool.
37:54Yep, you expire today, so make sure to run into town and get a new one.
37:59Yeah.
37:59Of course, you don't need little tickets for fish without a license, right?
38:02Right.
38:03Brian, if you want to bring those over to me, man, I'll go ahead and check them out here.
38:07I don't like walking on that.
38:08That's a little sketchy.
38:09It is scary.
38:10It is a little shaky.
38:12I figure it's still got a few more walks on it, though.
38:19Beautiful, beautiful fish, though.
38:20Right.
38:21You mind if I take a picture of them?
38:23Hey, yeah, go ahead, man.
38:24So who's caught?
38:25Who's caught what?
38:26He's caught all three.
38:27You have?
38:27I caught all three.
38:28Ah, you're winning today, huh?
38:30He's winning today.
38:31Yeah.
38:31Right on.
38:32Awesome, guys.
38:33Well, have fun today, and good luck to you, all right?
38:35Start catching fish, man, okay?
38:36Nice hand on this one.
38:37Nice talking to you.
38:38All right, yeah, you too.
38:39Thank you, guys.
38:40All right.
38:40Yeah, I would shake his hand.
38:42That's all good.
38:43Awesome, guys.
38:43I appreciate it.
38:45Have a nice day.
38:51Well, that's cool.
38:53We've got to make contact with a couple more people today.
38:57Make a quick turn right here and see if I can find anybody.
39:01So we'll see what's going on.
39:14There's a big, dead eagle right there.
39:17I just want to take a quick look at it.
39:21I've got to give my vial just a call.
39:37Hey, Janet and Zach, if you could give me a call.
39:40Just found a dead eagle.
39:42And I'm going to go ahead and pick it up and toss it in my truck.
39:44Just want to give you a heads up.
39:46Thanks, Spike.
39:58Of course, you can't shoot eagles, so just metal detecting to cover my bases,
40:02because it's a federally protected bird.
40:08I think they tend to sit on the road and eat until they get full,
40:12and they don't fly up and just end up getting struck by a vehicle.
40:19It's pretty mangled, so that's probably what happened.
40:24So I'll take it to the endow office in Winnemucca.
40:27We'll put it in the freezer, and they'll x-ray it, see if there's, like, disease or anything,
40:32and then she'll determine where it goes.
40:38All right, we're done here.
40:46I love being in the outdoors.
40:48I do a lot of this on my own time.
40:50I want to keep it that way for generations in the future.
40:53It means a lot to me, and I want to protect it the best that I can.
40:57It means a lot to me, and I want to protect it the best that I can.
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