Warden Wire: Boaters, silent sporters show their safety stripes to DNR wardens
Cue the tiki barge!Nice job, Wisconsin boaters. You, too, silent sporters. And there's a 'tiki barge' in Vilas County that shows how to put safety first into fun! Stats and stories portray a safety scene with many of the boaters who enjoyed the waters during the weekend known nationally as Operation Dry Water. DNR wardens and the 42 other patrol agencies contacted a whopping 8,476 boaters on 3,412 vessels of one kind or another, meaning boats and paddlers. Perfect? No. There was the case of the jet ski going in circles after impaired riders fell off. But, still, pretty good! Read more: http://dnr.wi.gov/topic/WardenWire/WardenWire_Lookup.asp?id=458 |