Valencia also told Officer Martsh that he shot a turkey earlier that day, but didn’t retrieve it because he didn’t have a license. The White-tailed deer is the number one game animal hunted in Alabama. Valencia loaded the deer in his vehicle anyway and then dumped it a short time later because he didn’t want to get caught. LDWF biologists and technicians collect harvest and biological data and conduct other research on public and private lands to make sure. Start out by first looking into the inside corners of the map. This is something that can help you figure out the best spots that the deer are more likely to be in. All the same, I passed it off until sometime later when I bumped into Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, & Parks deer biologist William McKinley at a conference and asked him about it. White-tailed deer are found throughout the state even in some coastal locales. If you are looking for deer on flat terrain, a topographic map can be one of the best things that you carry along with you. Two deer in two days, each with a spike on one side had to be more than mere coincidence. Hunters are sometimes confused about whether a deer they killed should be tagged with an either sex tag (commonly called a buck tag) or an antlerless only. But Valencia told Office Martsh that when he approached the deer, he knew it was illegal. White-tailed deer are an abundant and sustainable game species in Louisiana and the species most targeted by Louisiana hunters. Valencia told Officer Martsh that when he shot the deer, he thought it had a fork. The caller stated that Valencia loaded the deer carcass in his SUV in a hidden storage compartment underneath the rear carpeted flooring and hauled it to his home in San Felipe.Ĭonservation Officer John Martsh contacted Bureau of Indian Affairs Law Enforcement Division for assistance on San Felipe Pueblo.
7, 2013, Conservation Officer John Martsh received an anonymous Operation Game Thief report stating that while hunting in the Red Cloud area, James Valencia, born June 13, 1982, shot and killed a spike deer and turkey. place, or use permanent-type tree stands, or place spikes, nails, wires.
MORIARTY () – An Operation Game Thief call lands a San Felipe man with fines and community service after he killed an illegal spike deer and turkey in Game Management Unit 38 near Corona New Mexico. It shall be unlawful to hunt, take, or possess deer except in accordance with.