Warden Blotter - Lower Chippewa Warden Team 10-22-12
By: Lower Chippewa Warden Team
Lower Chippewa Warden Team
Clark County
Warden Hanna was run off the road by an intoxicated driver during the late night hours on Labor Day weekend. The man fled when Warden Hanna activated his lights and siren, and a short pursuit ensued. Warden Hanna followed the man to his cabin where the man crashed his truck into a sign, then fled on foot inside a cabin. Warden Hanna and deputies from the Clark County Sheriff’s Department apprehended the man and took him to jail for operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated. It was the man's third offense and obstructing/resisting a conservation warden.
Wardens Hanna and Ken Thomson of Eau Claire assisted in the search and rescue of a squirrel hunter that was lost in the Clark County Forest for two nights. Through the efforts of the responders, the man was found alive and treated for minor injuries.
Chippewa County
Warden Shaun Deeney of Chippewa Falls assisted staff from the UW Cooperative Extension Office, NRCS and volunteers with teaching natural resource topics at the annual “Conservation Days” in Cornell. More than 680 students from several Chippewa County schools attended the event at Brunet Island State Park.
Eau Claire County
Warden Scott Thiede of Eau Claire apprehended two shoreline anglers who left 12 glass beer bottles on the shoreline of the Chippewa River below the Dells Hydro Dam. Several bottles had been broken when one subject tossed his bottles onto the rocks. Enforcement action was taken.
Warden Thiede assisted several other wardens and water guards with an Aquatic Invasive Species (AIS) Group Check on the Holcombe Flowage during the Labor Day weekend. Numerous boaters were contacted on the water and at boat landings during the Department’s efforts to contain and control the spread of AIS.
Jackson County
Warden Donar received a complaint about an individual who caught and killed a barred owl. While at a late night party, the suspect knocked the owl from its perch on a tree. The suspect then caught the owl, which was still alive, displayed it in front of numerous people for several minutes before killing the owl with his hands. Enforcement action was taken.