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00:12When violators violate the law, they will slip.
00:15And when they slip, I'm going to be there to catch them.
00:18When she's up, she couldn't get mad.
00:19So I want everybody that way.
00:22If I'm able to find this carcass and match up this photo,
00:26the guy's going to be red-handed.
00:28Hello, John. This is Nick Brunson, Game Warden with Ladder, Department of Wildlife.
00:31How are you?
00:32Good. Yeah, it's still way in there.
00:35So you've been here since 4 o'clock this morning?
00:38Yeah, and I was passed out.
00:40This is all a sign for me of a pyramid that you kind of don't know where you're at,
00:43don't know what direction you're going.
00:51Nevada, a land of extremes.
00:54From the Strip to the summits,
00:57it's wild country.
00:59Home to more than 900 species
01:02and a way of life worth protecting.
01:04Preserved for the people and the wildlife that call it home.
01:09One team stands guard.
01:12This is Nevada Wild.
01:36I'm Carrie Kuebner.
01:38I am a game biologist for Nevada Department of Wildlife.
01:43I've been in the position now for 22 years.
01:48I was the first female game biologist ever hired in the state of Nevada.
01:55So these are the moose collars that we're hoping to deploy out there.
01:59We're going to try and get these moose collars on a couple of cow moose that we have located.
02:07These collars just go around the neck of the animal.
02:10This is kind of where you've got the battery and satellite.
02:13It stores all the GPS there.
02:15And just as a perspective, I have one of our deer collars sitting right here.
02:20And this is what we typically put on a mule deer.
02:24And here's our moose collars.
02:25You can tell it's a lot bigger animal we're dealing with here.
02:29So they should fit our girls quite nicely.
02:38We'll need maybe just throwing a little long range and abanamine in here.
02:44So today we've got our veterinarian, Nate LaHue, out with us to help monitor the overall health of the moose.
02:50Because I'm going to bring two, and they have two of each.
02:53But I'm going to bring all the drugs in case you decide to go a fifth on the mountain.
02:56We only have a very small population of moose in Nevada.
02:59We don't have any collars on them.
03:02And so by getting some collars on this, this will give us a lot of information about where these moose
03:06are going,
03:07what kind of habitat they're using,
03:09and just start to give us a picture of what moose in Nevada are doing.
03:16In many states across the country, moose are in decline.
03:19We want to evaluate the health of moose here in Nevada so we can see, do we have issues to
03:24be concerned about?
03:25We know whenever we capture animals that the potential is there to lose animals.
03:30And you have to outweigh that risk versus the benefits of the population.
03:36And so with the moose, because it's an iconic species, because there's a lot of public perception around it,
03:41and because our population is very small, the pressures are to really not lose any moose.
03:47These do look like moose tracks, because you can just tell when you come on them,
03:50because they just stay right in the bottom of this eat and willows.
03:55It wants to track further down the creek.
03:58Yeah, I don't see any brush tracks up here.
04:11Would it be very easy for somebody to come out here with a spotlight at 2 a.m.
04:17and shoot an elk and throw it in the back of the truck and drive home?
04:22I think it's happening, and people are under the mentality of shoot, shovel, and shut up,
04:28because it's the Wild Wild West.
04:30There's only one of me for 8,000 square miles.
04:33They know it.
04:34When violators violate the law, they will slip.
04:37And when they slip, I'm going to be there to catch them.
04:43My name is Ben Turner.
04:44I've been a game warden with Nevada Department of Wildlife for approximately two years.
04:51My responsibilities are covering roughly 8,000 square miles of patrol area as a solo warden.
04:58My closest backup is two hours at best.
05:03I received a tip in the Ely that a hunter was out here hunting for his cow elk,
05:13and during that season, there's a prescribed area that you have to be north of White Pine County, Road 35.
05:20And allegedly, he was hunting and harvested his elk south of that prescribed area.
05:27I have pictures that he took of himself with the elk in the location that it was killed at.
05:35So we're just trying to find that carcass so we can confirm where he did kill and harvest that animal.
05:43Finding needles in a haystack out here in the middle of nowhere is damn near impossible.
05:48These are the pictures that I have to match up the area with.
05:54And if I'm able to get in this exact location, there should be a carcass of this elk.
06:00We might get lucky and be able to pull a bullet off of something if the magpies, coyotes, and those
06:06kind of things haven't picked them apart.
06:07If I'm able to find this carcass and match up this photo, the guy's going to be red-handed at
06:14that point.
06:15If we find it remotely close, he's going to be 10, 15 miles away from that boundary line.
06:22So he is impacting a herd that's not a herd that we're trying to impact.
06:26That peak straight ahead is that peak right there.
06:31So we're parked somewhere down here, so the elk carcass should be straight up that draw.
06:38I'm grabbing a more portable metal detector, one that's not as big as a normal one that you would see
06:45a beachcomber with,
06:46so that I can check the carcass for bullet fragments.
06:54So this looks consistent with an ATV track.
06:58You can see the way that the brush is kind of beat down from the tires.
07:02I can almost guarantee you that if we follow this track up, it's going to take us right to that
07:06elk.
07:10Hopefully all they did was just debone the animal and all the bones and everything will still be out there.
07:15Unfortunately, they won't be bleached white.
07:17They're going to be old hamburger color.
07:19And it's going to be really difficult to pick it out in between the wintertime sagebrush and all this grass.
07:27It's just got to keep going.
07:29Can't just give up because it gets hard.
07:35That slope right there is consistent with this slope.
07:39And then you have that dead tree right there.
07:42Pretty consistent with that dead tree.
07:46I think we're pretty close to it.
07:54Yep, that's a cow elk.
07:56You can see the hide.
07:59Looks like they took all the bones and everything off the hill,
08:02so all we're going to have to dig through is a hide and maybe some guts.
08:31We are after just cow moose today because we only have callers.
08:36that fit a cow moose.
08:38We're going to make sure that the environment is safe
08:41and it's okay to take the shot of either the net gun or the dart gun.
08:45All right, here we go.
08:53Who's on a cow with a climp?
08:56Good, there's a moose whisperer.
08:59Just let us know if it looks like you can work her at all.
09:03Nothing, we're going to show off here from the one at all.
09:06It's tough.
09:07You've got to get the animals in safe places.
09:09These animals like to be in the trees and they can't get close enough to get the dart on them
09:15if they're going to be in the tall trees.
09:21Okay, we just hit her.
09:25Bounce.
09:26Bounce down.
09:27I actually couldn't see it real clearly, but it was a reasonable shot.
09:31Okay.
09:32I can't really see any signs.
09:34I don't know if you can start anything.
09:36I feel kind of trotting along.
09:38Yeah, I'm thinking it's really fine if I hit her again.
09:43Yeah, it's your discretion, but if you need to hit her again, we're good with that.
09:48Yeah, I think we will.
09:49Still move.
09:50It's pretty accurate.
09:51The particular dart we are using doesn't appear to be giving the full amount of medication to the moose.
09:58They appear to be bouncing out.
10:00Chances are it hasn't gotten a full dose, bouncing off her hide before they get the full injection in her.
10:11Okay, we just hit her again.
10:13Another bounce out, but yeah, got her in the back end there.
10:17So hopefully it's a goodie.
10:19Set for it, thank you.
10:22Still moving pretty quickly through the thicker sage down there.
10:26They've been hit twice now.
10:28So with the amount of adrenaline they got going, it's probably going to run for a little bit.
10:32In order to determine how often to dart and how much medication and that, it really takes all of us.
10:38We're relying a lot on the capture crew and their past experience.
10:43Once you've darted an animal, you have a responsibility to follow through with that
10:47because you wouldn't want anything bad to happen to her.
10:52Yeah, we're kind of wondering if we're losing some of the strut, you know, with these darts, because they're all
10:56bouncing out.
10:57That one's faded longer than the others, but I wonder if they're not getting a full dose here.
11:02Yeah, we're at 11 minutes from the second dart and 24 for the first.
11:10She's been moving through a lot of snow.
11:11She's been moving for over half an hour now.
11:14And so when their body temperature gets up and they're nervous and they're running and they're stressed, they're really at
11:21risk for capture myopathy.
11:23Our biggest concern with stress in these animals is what we call capture myopathy.
11:28What happens is these animals become very hot.
11:31They are running very hard and they get inadequate oxygenation to their muscles.
11:38And the muscles kind of cook themselves.
11:39And so there's a lot of different forms of capture myopathy and anywhere from where they can die suddenly to
11:46whether they can rupture a muscle, you know, several days after they're released.
11:50But all comes down to exertion and stress.
11:53So a severe case can result in death.
11:55And so that's one of our biggest concerns.
11:58I mean, part of me is thinking about just saying, forgetting her and she's already been stressed moving enough.
12:20My fear is if she's going to go down somewhere where we don't have eyes on her, we leave.
12:26Yeah, exactly.
12:27I don't see that.
12:29So the concern is always, how much drug do they get?
12:32How much more should I give?
12:33And you really do not want to leave a partially drugged animal in the landscape.
12:39Yeah, Jonathan, we were just discussing it might be worth getting another 3cc dart ready.
12:45We may have to hit her again here a little bit.
12:48We're thinking 3 and just get her down.
12:51Doing one more 3cc and trying to get her down.
12:54I think we need to do something.
12:56It's taking a long time now.
13:00You know, the nightmare scenario there is we get a partial dose, we don't get the animal down,
13:05and then an hour later, it goes down when nobody's around and dies.
13:10Okay, you guys can go ahead.
13:14We don't know how much drug that particular moose has received,
13:19even though we've put a couple of darts in it.
13:22But chances are it hasn't gotten a full dose.
13:24We need to stay with this particular moose.
13:31Can I wake up at her again?
13:41Yep, that's a cow elk.
13:44You can see the hide and maybe some guts.
13:51That's clear as day, that exact same picture.
13:54Same slope, same slope.
13:57Yep, you got the kill site right there, and then the animal rolled all the way down to there.
14:02So you see how the dirt is an unnatural color from everything else around.
14:08It's kind of dark and looks like there's some hair matter in there.
14:11My guess is during their gutting process and cleaning process, coyotes feeding on it and everything like that.
14:17It rolled, and that's where it ended up laying, but that's our evidence site, and that is our second evidence
14:25site.
14:28Right now, I'm going to pull my GPS out so I can document the location of this picture of this
14:35kill site.
14:36Me being from the area, I know that his area that he was supposed to be hunting is 30 miles
14:41that way,
14:43and it's a completely different herd from what is over here,
14:48and the target of that hunt is to thin down the number out of that herd that's north
14:54and not hit this herd that's south, because this herd is a very sensitive herd.
15:00There's not as many elk, but I'm going to document everything that I possibly can.
15:06Any more evidence just helps solidify the case so that when it gets brought to the DA,
15:10he has no issues pursuing it.
15:14I like to take as many pictures as I possibly can,
15:18because SD cards are cheap, and evidence is priceless.
15:22All it takes is that one picture to solidify the case.
15:30I'm going to take as much hair as evidence as I possibly can,
15:33because if I have to, I can compare the elk that would be in his freezer to this hair.
15:38We can always send this off to the lab.
15:40We can get a DNA analysis comparison.
15:46Next step is I'm going to start looking for a bullet or bullet fragments,
15:52because if we can find brass, we can tie it to the gun he used.
15:59It would be really nice to get an intact bullet,
16:02but with the way that this hunter pulled all the bones off the hill,
16:07he pulled all the meat off the hill,
16:09I don't have high hopes that I'm going to find a bullet.
16:13Shot in the dark, but even a blind squirrel finds a nut from time to time.
16:20Last things last, let's check the hide.
16:28That hole is consistent with a bullet hole right here.
16:57That hole is consistent with a bullet hole right here.
17:07I'm getting a small sound, but I don't know if it's getting interference from something else,
17:13because it's not in a spot where a bullet would be,
17:16but I'm getting a consistent ping in this area.
17:25It's not coming off the ground, but I mean, this thing, it can pick up metal pretty good.
17:38I'm just not getting that really strong hit.
17:42There's nowhere in this hide, though, that a bullet could be lodged.
17:46It is so thin.
17:48The guy did a really good job cutting it away from the animal.
17:55Now that it's been out in the sun for two weeks, it's pretty petrified.
18:03I'm just trying to cut back some hair so I can get a little bit more exposure to the hide,
18:10see if there's something lodged in there or not.
18:16Elk hair, man.
18:17It is thick.
18:18There's a reason they make flies out of it for fly fishing.
18:24It looks like we have some blood in here, but there's typically a lot more of a hole if a
18:33bullet did enter here.
18:36Yeah, there might be the smallest piece of bullet in there,
18:42but even if there is, there's not enough evidence off of a small bullet like that to be able to
18:48tie it to a weapon.
18:50I'm going to go ahead and clean my knife off so I don't put it away dirty, right?
18:54Pack up.
18:56I'm glad we finally found it.
19:13They've just used three darts.
19:15I have no idea what that's going to do.
19:19It looks like she's almost ready to lay down.
19:22May have just gone down.
19:24I'm not sure.
19:25She might have just gone down.
19:28Okay.
19:29Yeah, it looks like she's slowing.
19:32I'm sorry, this guy's been running for quite a while.
19:34It took her three darts to go all the way down.
19:36She's probably hot.
19:38She's had a lot of muscle stress.
19:40We just want to get some oxygen in into her,
19:42and we want to do the minimum we can,
19:44then get out and let her get reversed and help her recover.
19:46Come on.
19:49Come on, now.
20:00Come on.
20:03Come on.
20:03Sorry, Maggie.
20:04You used to get a heart rate.
20:08Her heart rate's 48.
20:11What was that, Tim?
20:12103.
20:13I heard that.
20:16Looks good.
20:22From the blood, we can learn a lot of different things.
20:25We'll learn about trace minerals and what's in their system
20:28to see the overall health of the animal.
20:32She's still at 48 heart rate, and she's not lactating,
20:36which isn't surprising because you didn't see a calf.
20:39How come you don't have a baby?
20:42She's like, boys, you're hard to find out.
20:45Slim Pickens.
20:47What was that second temp?
20:50It was 104.
20:52She's getting a little hotter.
20:54Let's get her reversed here as soon as we can.
20:56Fish.
20:58I got the reversals ready.
21:00Just when she's up, she couldn't get mad, so I want everybody that way
21:07because she's going to probably get up pretty quick.
21:12And a Pamazala's in.
21:17Oh, good.
21:18She's picking up her head.
21:19Good girl.
21:20Oh, there she is.
21:21Oh, as soon as I turned it off, she got up.
21:26Yeah, that's great.
21:27That was nice reversal.
21:29Good job, guys.
21:31This, hands down, was probably the most exciting days of my career.
21:34Good girl.
21:36We weren't even sure we were going to be able to find any today, so to have it all come
21:39together
21:39and go as successfully as it did, it was just a really awesome project.
21:44It's going to definitely be one of the days I remember as a highlight of my career.
21:50Not as hot as I thought she might be, so that was really nice to see.
21:55She had to get up to 104, but that was the max, and so...
21:58You know, putting your tags in and stuff, she was relatively calm.
22:01Yeah, and I think we can expect her all not going to be that calm.
22:05Uh-huh.
22:05But, uh, yeah, it was really nice to see.
22:07Picked a good one.
22:08Very nice.
22:22We're going to head out into Unit 222.
22:25We've got some cow elk hunts going on up there.
22:27Going to kind of try to contact some people and just kind of see what we get into today.
22:36What's going on at 1-5-30?
22:38Hey, it's John Anderson.
22:39How are you?
22:41Hey, good.
22:42I'm kind of up in the 1-50 area.
22:45I didn't catch what was going on.
22:46Do you need me to respond to anything?
22:51Thanks, Mike.
22:53So, in scanning Lincoln County Sheriff's Department's channels, I overheard a call.
22:59It's relatively close to where we're at.
23:02Uh, vehicle accident, unknown injuries.
23:06I'm going to try to get there as quick as I can and see what we got.
23:09I think I can get there before a lot of other first responders, and I can determine what's
23:14going on and whether additional resources are going to be needed.
23:22We have a lot of elk that cross right in that area, so it's very possible it's a collision with
23:30an elk.
23:30I actually hit a deer right there in this patrol vehicle, uh, four years ago.
23:39Sounds like medical just arrived on scene.
23:42I mean...
23:42I mean...
23:43I mean...
23:44I mean...
24:13How's it going?
24:14How are you doing?
24:15She won't get me.
24:16Yeah, I know she won't get me.
24:18Is she intoxicated?
24:21Check up.
24:22The people on scene are telling me that she's confused.
24:26I need to determine if that's because of possible drug use
24:30or alcohol use.
24:32What may be going on that's causing her to act erratically?
24:36How are you doing, man?
24:37Good.
24:38So last night, it was around 4 in the morning.
24:41And either my tire blew.
24:44Look at my tire because my car just went out of control.
24:46But I did see a truck behind me with strip lights
24:50for a couple of minutes.
24:52But I don't know what caused me to go off the side of the road
24:55like this.
24:55Did you see any deer or elk or anything?
24:57Like, OK.
24:58Have you been drinking at all?
24:59No.
25:00Nothing.
25:01So these guys got to get on their way.
25:03So we'll just have you finish the refusal and then?
25:06I already signed.
25:07You did?
25:07So you're good to go?
25:08OK.
25:09It's confusing me a little bit that she's
25:12refusing all medical treatment.
25:14I can tell the medical staff that are on scene
25:17would like to transport her.
25:18But she has the right to refuse medical treatment.
25:22So it's just concerning me a little bit the way she's acting.
25:27Are you walking OK?
25:30Yeah, I'm totally sore.
25:31OK.
25:32So you've been here since 4 o'clock this morning?
25:35Yeah, and I was passed out.
25:37She's been here since 4 in the morning.
25:39She refused medical.
25:40You don't want to get transported?
25:41No, no, no.
25:42Are you sure?
25:43I'm positive, sir.
25:44OK.
25:44We're going to tow your vehicle.
25:46Where are you headed to?
25:47I'm going to Salt Lake.
25:48Salt Lake?
25:49Yeah, yeah.
25:49OK.
25:50Are you on any prescription medication
25:52or anything like that?
25:54Yeah.
25:54Yeah.
25:55I've been taking my prescription since last night.
25:58Probably around 11 PM.
26:0111 PM.
26:02You OK if I see the prescription medication you're on
26:04and stuff like that?
26:04Oh, I don't have the bottle with me.
26:06It's a home.
26:06Are you OK to be driving with it, though?
26:08It doesn't impair you or anything like that?
26:09I got to just questions I got to ask.
26:10You know it.
26:11It doesn't impair me at all.
26:13Where are you coming from today?
26:14From Salt Lake.
26:15So you're coming from Salt Lake to go where?
26:17I was going to go see my friend in Vegas.
26:21Do you know what direction you were traveling?
26:23I was going to Vegas.
26:24You were going to Vegas from Salt Lake.
26:25Yeah.
26:26I drove through Cedar City.
26:28Yeah.
26:28OK.
26:29Do you want to sit in the back of my car
26:30where the heater's on to stay warm?
26:32Would that work for you?
26:33Sure.
26:34We're going to talk some more here.
26:35That's all right.
26:37Highway to...
26:38Whoa.
26:40Wow, your car is messy.
26:42Yeah.
26:43We're going to have to sit right here.
26:44What the heck is back here?
26:45That's school stuff for the kids.
26:47Lanier and stuff like that.
26:49That's sweet.
26:50So it's a good type of messy, right?
26:5211 o'clock last night, we left Salt Lake.
26:55Mm-hmm.
26:55Went through Cedar.
26:57Right now...
26:58Did I take the wrong turn?
26:59Yeah, because this is why we're looking at it
27:01and why I'm confused.
27:02It's just weird that you're going towards Salt Lake right now.
27:05Right.
27:05You're going northbound.
27:06You were going from Salt Lake to Vegas.
27:07Well, I don't know where I went off the side of the road.
27:10You know what I mean?
27:11But you see right now, you're traveling northbound
27:13towards Salt Lake when you said you want to go towards Vegas,
27:16right?
27:16Right.
27:17So this is all signs for me of impairment
27:19that you kind of don't know where you're at,
27:21don't know what direction you're going.
27:36Hello, John.
27:37Brunson, Gabe Morgan with the Ladder Department of Wildlife.
27:39How are you?
27:40Good.
27:41Yeah, it's still way in there.
27:43It hasn't moved a foot.
27:44It actually put down.
27:46But I didn't want to put it down without you seeing it.
27:49I'm not so sure that it, you know, it's an accident.
27:52Absolutely no.
27:53John, I'm actually out in the area.
27:55I'm right here.
27:57OK.
27:57I'll be out and meet you.
27:58OK, that sounds good.
27:59Thanks, John.
28:00You bet.
28:01Uh-huh.
28:01Mm-hmm.
28:02Bye-bye.
28:03So I just received a call about a deer that is injured,
28:06out in Spring Creek.
28:08The caller knows something's not right with the deer.
28:11He says it's been there for quite a while,
28:12and it's not moving very much.
28:14I mean, kind of all throughout Spring Creek,
28:16we've had problems with people feeding deer.
28:18And it just, it causes major problems for a lot of those animals.
28:25How are you, John?
28:29Well, I appreciate you calling, and we'll take care of this thing.
28:32I just, I watched him, watched him try to get up.
28:34And it looks like, I don't know.
28:37I don't know if it's got some sort of...
28:38If you look on the back, it looks like a fender of a car or something.
28:42So it must've got hit, and then it's just...
28:44I've been crying for an hour.
28:45Oh, man, I can imagine.
28:46I feel, I feel bad.
28:48We don't enjoy coming out and having to euthanize animals,
28:52but at the same time, I don't know that he'd be able to survive.
28:55I think you've got to put it down.
28:56Yeah.
28:57My dog went over and ran around it in circles a couple times,
29:01and it wouldn't get up.
29:03It wouldn't even get up, yeah.
29:04Like I say, I mean, shoot with me walking right here, right next to it.
29:07I mean, if it was able to get up and walk off on its own recognizance,
29:10it would have done that, but it didn't.
29:12Right.
29:13I know that in the past, we've had people that have fed deer in this area.
29:18John, do you know if there's people still feeding deer out here?
29:22It's that tan place there?
29:24Uh-huh.
29:25I'm not so sure that he's still...
29:27Feeding them or eating them, yeah.
29:29I was gonna say, I know we've had problems with somebody
29:31right up here in the past.
29:33Yeah.
29:33I can always look at that, too.
29:35That guy was feeding for a while.
29:36A lot of times, with people feeding deer
29:39and bringing these deer into all this housing area out in Spring Creek,
29:44with the deer coming in, the predators are gonna follow the deer in.
29:48For this deer, I'm making the decision to dispatch him.
29:51If I was to let him go in his current state,
29:53he's probably gonna suffer a pretty long, slow, and painful death.
29:56And so it's just a better all-around for this animal,
30:00just if I was to dispatch him, put him out of that pain and suffering.
30:04What I'll do is I'll just put it down and then move my truck up here,
30:07and I'll just load it into the back of my truck and haul it out.
30:10Well, I'm gonna go inside.
30:12I appreciate it. Thank you, John.
30:13Okay.
30:14If you end up seeing anybody that's feeding,
30:16give me a call and let me know,
30:18because I'd love to come out and talk to them.
30:20Thanks, John.
30:22Usually, walking this close to a deer,
30:24it should get up and walk off on its own recognizance.
30:27It's a young deer.
30:28I would almost think that this was last year's fawn.
30:31And with an injury back there to the spine like that,
30:33it doesn't seem that this deer is gonna be able to get up on its feet,
30:36so it'll most likely die a slow, painful death,
30:39and euthanizing it will, you know,
30:42be the best outcome for this animal.
30:47Reno, 24-0-8-0, could you call the county
30:50and just let them know that there are gonna be shots fired out here?
30:53No, no, no...
31:15Make myН Kenneth
31:15You see right now you're travelling northbound towards Salt Lake.
31:18When you said you wanna go towards Vegas, right?
31:21So this is all signs for me of a pyramid
31:23that you kind of don't know where he's at,
31:24don't know what direction you're going.
31:28What direction are you going, northbound or south?
31:31Well, I went through Cedar City, and I was going towards the gate.
31:34I mean, this is the middle of nowhere,
31:36and it's not even the most direct route from Las Vegas to Salt Lake City
31:41if she's going either way.
31:42And she said she was in Cedar last night,
31:44which means she turned west randomly and came out here.
31:48So just to keep you warm, we're going to close the door,
31:51and we'll get back with you here in a minute, OK?
31:55So she's changed her story three times already.
31:57It just makes sense.
31:57She's going northbound, but she's going to Vegas, went through Cedar.
32:00Yeah, she said she was going to Salt Lake,
32:02and she changed it and said she's going from Salt Lake to Vegas,
32:05and she went through Cedar City.
32:08I was like it for drug abuse, and I don't trust her in my vehicle.
32:13And I walked up, and she bailed out of the car.
32:16Get away with me. Don't touch me.
32:17Yeah, there's something going on.
32:19It's not adding up.
32:27When I walked up, she bailed out of the car.
32:29Get away with me. Don't touch me.
32:31Yeah, there's something going on.
32:33It's not adding up.
32:34The closest town I can get you is to Caliani.
32:37Do you have anybody that we can call that can come pick you up?
32:40Yeah.
32:40There is?
32:41Yeah.
32:44It makes me guess what, in kind of an emergency situation.
32:49I'm going to go look around the vehicle.
32:55She gave us consent to search, so we're just going to try to put the pieces together
33:03and make sure there's not, you know, a more serious medical issue that we're dealing with
33:06that we haven't figured out yet.
33:08So, is there any way that you could come and get me?
33:13Oh, thank you.
33:17She's no luggage if you're going to Vegas.
33:21She is not making sense.
33:23She's doing things that are erratic, and we need to figure out if that's because of a
33:28brain injury or if she's having a mental issue.
33:35How are you doing, man?
33:37Are you upset?
33:38I'm really upset.
33:39I understand why you are.
33:41You do?
33:41Yeah.
33:42Absolutely.
33:42If I had wrecked at 4 o'clock in the morning and I sat out here by myself all night
33:46long,
33:46that can get kind of scary because you're in the middle of nowhere.
33:48I'm in the middle of nowhere.
33:49I don't know how.
33:50Yeah.
33:51Are you feeling okay, though?
33:54Yeah.
33:54I mean, it's not like I'm dying or anything.
33:56Right.
33:57Right.
33:57I mean...
33:58My nerves are just like, yeah, extremely like...
34:02Yeah.
34:04Ma'am, when you wrecked at 4 o'clock in the morning, how come you didn't call for help
34:07right away?
34:08I went out.
34:10And for hours?
34:11Yeah, my head hit beside it.
34:13It worked on my eyelashes out.
34:14My eyelashes...
34:15I see that.
34:17Yes.
34:18There was eyelashes all over and some...
34:20See, like, it knocked you out for multiple hours.
34:22Yes.
34:23And I was on the passenger side.
34:25I think you need medical attention, though.
34:27It's not...
34:27What's that?
34:28It's not good.
34:29I was on the passenger side.
34:30When you wrecked.
34:31No, no, no.
34:32When I woke up.
34:33Can I look at your eyes real quick?
34:35I'm just checking to see if your pupils are dilated differently, like a sign of concussion
34:38or anything like that.
34:40I'm not seeing it.
34:41Man, if there's anything going on, if you're scared, we're the guys that can help you out,
34:46okay?
34:47Of course, I'm kind of scared.
34:49Like I said, I saw a truck with lights, and I was like, is this guy following me?
34:53Because it was for miles.
34:54So I turn around, and I'm thinking in my head, okay, I'll be able to tell if he's following
34:59me.
34:59You know what I mean?
34:59Sure.
34:59I turn around.
35:00Absolutely.
35:01So that's how I ended up coming back.
35:02And he told us that when he first came up, that you were like, get away from me.
35:07Your family's being...
35:08Why wasn't that?
35:09Because he was a big man.
35:10He is kind of a big man.
35:11A big man, and I'm in the middle of nowhere.
35:14You know what I mean?
35:15No, I would totally understand her.
35:16I didn't call him, so I was just like, whoa, look at my hair.
35:20Yeah.
35:21That looks bad.
35:22I mean, you saw the stuff that you went through.
35:24That sagebrush, and you're really lucky.
35:27A lot of times when people go off the road, their front tires dig in, and then they start
35:32flipping.
35:33I'm just glad you're okay.
35:35I'm glad I'm okay, too.
35:36So I'll check in on you maybe tomorrow, just to make sure that you're getting where you
35:40need to go.
35:41Okay.
35:41Okay?
35:42We're about 30 minutes for Pioch.
35:44I want to make sure you have a hotel.
35:46I'm going to show you where the food's at, because I'm sure you're hungry being out here
35:48that long.
35:49I'm starving.
35:49Yep.
35:49I'll get you some food, and we'll get you going, okay?
35:53At least I know the question I've asked kind of may be upset.
35:55I'm sorry.
35:56I'm just trying to make sure everything's okay, all right?
36:00You deal with this stuff more than I do, but it's not adding up.
36:03There's nothing you can do.
36:04Sometimes it doesn't.
36:05Sometimes it doesn't.
36:07But there's nothing illegal against not making sense.
36:10Making sense and not being in your right mind.
36:13Yeah.
36:13There's nothing illegal about it.
36:16I'm a little worried about if she really got knocked out, and she's in the passenger seat
36:21when she wakes up.
36:22Yeah.
36:22Like, I know she refused medical, but I looked at her eyes and not dilated different, like
36:27a concussion, and she's tracking really well.
36:29She's not throwing up.
36:30We're dizzy passing out right now.
36:31Yeah.
36:32All right.
36:33I'll appreciate it.
36:35Yep.
36:35Hey, be good, hire.
36:36Yep.
36:41This deer most likely got hit by a vehicle, and it was probably coming into an individual
36:47feeding deer that's out here in this area, and it's a terrible scenario.
36:52It shouldn't have had to have been euthanized.
36:55I mean, it's a shame.
36:58Body condition-wise, this deer's not in poor condition.
37:02So that's another thing that leads me to believe that this animal was hit by a vehicle
37:07versus having some sort of a disease.
37:09A lot of times with the disease, you'll be able to see the deer's rib cage, backbone sticking
37:13out, just really kind of withering away.
37:15You know, it doesn't look like it has that.
37:18It just can't get onto its feet.
37:23I already know I'm clear of that last residence, one deer euthanized.
37:27I'm going to be 10-8 in the area to talk with some of these property owners and see if
37:33anybody's
37:33feeding wildlife in the area.
37:35It aggravates me that I have to euthanize deer out here.
37:39That could have been completely avoided, but obviously there's somebody that's out here
37:43in this area that's still feeding deer.
37:47The house that we're just pulling up to now was the one that had been feeding deer in
37:51the past.
37:52I'm going to go in and talk with this individual and see if they're feeding the deer, and if
37:56they are, then I'll be getting a ticket from me.
38:01Hey, game warden Nick Brunson, how are you?
38:03Oh, I'm okay.
38:04So I just put down a deer over in John's yard.
38:07You guys wouldn't happen to be feeding deer anymore, are you?
38:19No.
38:25I know you guys have been talked to in the past, right?
38:27Yeah.
38:27By us?
38:28Yeah.
38:28But you guys haven't been feeding them?
38:30No, we don't feed them no more.
38:31Okay.
38:31Yeah.
38:31Okay.
38:32Very good.
38:33I certainly appreciate it.
38:34Sure.
38:35You guys have a good one.
38:38Okay.
38:41I haven't seen anything in their front yard or around the side of the house that makes
38:46me think that they're still feeding deer, whether it's like a pile of hay or some grain buckets
38:51or anything like that.
38:52But I'm going to go over here to one of their neighbors, and I'm going to talk to them because
38:56there's still potential that they are feeding deer.
38:58They're just lying to me about it.
39:02Hello, state game warden.
39:03How are you?
39:04I'm Nick Brunson.
39:05I'm a game warden with Nevada Department of Wildlife.
39:07How are you doing?
39:09Not doing too bad.
39:10I just put down a deer back out over here.
39:12I was just wondering, do you guys happen to know if there's anybody in the area that could
39:15potentially be feeding deer, putting feet out for deer?
39:19No.
39:20There's nobody that I know of.
39:22Okay.
39:22For you, do what they call him that, because he hasn't done it anymore.
39:26Who?
39:26Who?
39:27This guy next door.
39:28Oh, this guy next door.
39:29Okay.
39:29You haven't seen him feeding here recently?
39:31Okay.
39:32What one?
39:33Okay.
39:33He's back.
39:34If you do see anybody feeding deer in the area, would you mind calling me?
39:38Just let me know, because I would love to come out and just try to educate people and
39:42let them know.
39:43There's still plenty of places where the deer can get their own natural food.
39:46Okay.
39:47Right.
39:47Well, I certainly appreciate it.
39:49Okay.
39:49Have a good one.
39:51Yep.
39:52You too.
39:55The individual that was feeding the deer in the past, his neighbor next door to him,
40:00it even said that he wasn't feeding deer anymore.
40:04So there is a potential that he's telling the truth, but I'd like to come back at a later
40:09date and talk with some of the other neighbors out here.
40:16People that feed wildlife feel that they're filling a role for those deer.
40:20And even when they've been given warnings in the past, we've had people that we've had
40:26to go back to and write them tickets because they just can't stop doing it.
40:30And for anybody that thinks that the deer are in need of their help, they're fooling themselves
40:35because they survived long before man, you know, ever came into this country.
40:40So I can't stress that enough to people that are feeding them that it's, it causes more
40:46harm than it does helping.
40:55Euthanizing something is probably the worst part about being a game warden.
40:59But in instances like this deer today, it's more humane to put that animal down than it
41:06is to let it get eaten alive by coyotes or just die a slow, painful death.
41:12It'll be fed on by predators and birds and things of that nature.
41:15So it's still playing an important role in nature.
41:19That's something that I can, I can be happy with, that it's going to provide food for others.
41:29Let's go.
41:47I'll see you next week.
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