‘Never a dull day’
Idaho Fish and Game officers visit with boaters on the Salmon River.
Idaho Fish and Game
Spring brings a flurry of activity for Idaho Department of Fish and Game conservation officers.
While enforcement of Idaho’s wildlife laws is their main focus, Idaho’s conservation officers’ duties are broad and their days are never boring.
This spring, local officers assisted Custer and Lemhi County Sherriff deputies with two impaired drivers, performed CPR on an unresponsive steelhead angler until Life Flight arrived, taught youth education courses, retrieved big game radio-collars that were shed over the winter and helped spawn steelhead at Pahsimeroi and Sawtooth hatcheries. The list goes on.
As far as enforcing wildlife laws go, a few officers traveled to Montana to serve warrants regarding several wolf hunting violations and a mountain lion and trophy mule deer taken unlawfully in Unit 21. Officers throughout the region also spent considerable time educating non-resident antler hunters of Idaho’s new law requiring they possess a valid Idaho big game hunting license to gather antlers.
With the substantial steelhead return and an abundance of eager anglers, officers spent much of their spring contacting anglers to check for law compliance. While most anglers contacted by officers were following the rules, multiple violations were detected. Overall, local officers detected 36 total violations in a one-month period. Here are a few highlights.
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