{"id":113664,"date":"2019-08-05T01:20:41","date_gmt":"2019-08-05T05:20:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/digest\/?p=113664"},"modified":"2024-08-03T20:54:51","modified_gmt":"2024-08-04T01:54:51","slug":"hunt365-social-media-tool-catch-poachers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/hunt365-social-media-tool-catch-poachers\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Media Proving to be a Useful Tool to Catch Poachers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"652\" title=\"Social Media Proving to be a Useful Tool to Catch Poachers\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Montana-Poachers-Arrested-After-Killing-Mountain-Lion.png\" alt=\"Social Media Proving to be a Useful Tool to Catch Poachers\" class=\"wp-image-113665\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Montana-Poachers-Arrested-After-Killing-Mountain-Lion.png 768w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Montana-Poachers-Arrested-After-Killing-Mountain-Lion-150x127.png 150w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Montana-Poachers-Arrested-After-Killing-Mountain-Lion-353x300.png 353w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><figcaption>Pics of this illegally harvested mountain lion were posted to social media, leading to the arrest and conviction of the trio responsible.  (<em>Photo: United States Department of the Interior<\/em>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Social media is proving to be a useful tool to catch poachers.&nbsp; Why?&nbsp; Because, fundamentally, poachers are not the brightest people in the world.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMost of the people I work within the wildlife law enforcement field love social media because some people can&#8217;t resist bragging,\u201d explained Keith Wintersteen, a naturalist that works for the South Dakota Department of Game, Fish, and Parks (GFP) to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blackhillsfox.com\/content\/news\/Hunting-poachers-is-easier-with-social-media-521054541.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"hunt365-social-media-tool-catch-poachers\" title=\"Social Media Proving to be a Useful Tool to Catch Poachers\">BlackHillsFox.com<\/a>. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wintersteen is stationed at <a href=\"https:\/\/gfp.sd.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"hunt365-social-media-tool-catch-poachers\" title=\"Social Media Proving to be a Useful Tool to Catch Poachers\">Outdoor Campus-West<\/a>, a state-run park and facility that educates the public on all things outdoors, including responsible hunting and fishing. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said poachers posting pictures on social media have led to more arrests and more tips via the state\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/gfpga.sd.gov\/agency\/law-enforcement\/tips\/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"hunt365-social-media-tool-catch-poachers\" title=\"Social Media Proving to be a Useful Tool to Catch Poachers\">TIPS (<\/a><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/gfpga.sd.gov\/agency\/law-enforcement\/tips\/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"hunt365-social-media-tool-catch-poachers\" title=\"Social Media Proving to be a Useful Tool to Catch Poachers\">T<\/a><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/gfpga.sd.gov\/agency\/law-enforcement\/tips\/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"hunt365-social-media-tool-catch-poachers\" title=\"Social Media Proving to be a Useful Tool to Catch Poachers\">urn<\/a><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/gfpga.sd.gov\/agency\/law-enforcement\/tips\/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"hunt365-social-media-tool-catch-poachers\" title=\"Social Media Proving to be a Useful Tool to Catch Poachers\"> I<\/a><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/gfpga.sd.gov\/agency\/law-enforcement\/tips\/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"hunt365-social-media-tool-catch-poachers\" title=\"Social Media Proving to be a Useful Tool to Catch Poachers\">n <\/a><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/gfpga.sd.gov\/agency\/law-enforcement\/tips\/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"hunt365-social-media-tool-catch-poachers\" title=\"Social Media Proving to be a Useful Tool to Catch Poachers\">P<\/a><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/gfpga.sd.gov\/agency\/law-enforcement\/tips\/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"hunt365-social-media-tool-catch-poachers\" title=\"Social Media Proving to be a Useful Tool to Catch Poachers\">oachers) program<\/a>. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;They would think, they&#8217;re not going to catch me because I&#8217;m so sneaky,\u201d said Wintersteen. \u201cBelieve whatever you want, but sooner or later, someone&#8217;s gonna see something and they are gonna say something and you will get a knock on your door and somebody will say about this post where you have four deer laying here and you don&#8217;t even have a license according to our records.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">SEE ALSO: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/hunt365-commissioner-resigns-hunt\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"hunt365-social-media-tool-catch-poachers\" title=\"Social Media Proving to be a Useful Tool to Catch Poachers\">Idaho Fish and Game Commissioner Resigns after African Hunt Backlash<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Wildlife Conservation Officer Chris Dekker agreed, noting that social media has also helped the department nab vandals and litterers.&nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We get a wide range of tips that come in,&#8221; said Dekker. \u201cAnything from littering complaints will come in on our TIPs hotline, vandalism complaints at our game production areas or other public areas, as well as poaching complaints.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This digital crime-fighting approach isn\u2019t limited to South Dakota.&nbsp; Other states have caught on.&nbsp; In one high-profile case, a trio of Montana men was hit with a three-year worldwide hunting ban after they illegally harvested a mountain lion in Yellowstone National Park in 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Austin Peterson, 20, Trey Juhnke, 20, and Corbin Simmons, 19, posted pics to Instagram, Snapchat and Facebook following the kill (see photo above).&nbsp; Authorities took notice thanks to tips from responsible hunters. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cYou know, we ended up getting a lot of this information from a guy in Bozeman off of Facebook because you guys put a bunch of stuff on social media,\u201d Yellowstone special agent Jake Olson told Simmons during an interview, according to court documents obtained by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/great-outdoors\/montana-hunters-yellowstone-mountain-lion-illegal-kill\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"hunt365-social-media-tool-catch-poachers\" title=\"Social Media Proving to be a Useful Tool to Catch Poachers\">Fox News<\/a>. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All three had admitted to shooting the lion within the park, a violation of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fws.gov\/international\/laws-treaties-agreements\/us-conservation-laws\/lacey-act.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"hunt365-social-media-tool-catch-poachers\" title=\"Social Media Proving to be a Useful Tool to Catch Poachers\">Lacey Act<\/a>, which among other things outlaws taking, selling or purchasing wildlife from protected areas.&nbsp; In addition to the three-year ban on hunting, the men were ordered to pay a $1,666 fine. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Authorities everywhere say the same thing.\u00a0 If you see something incriminating on social media, say something.\u00a0  The more poachers we can bring to justice, the better.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" style=\"text-align:center\">***<a href=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/\" campaign=\"BuySellGA_Register\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\">Buy and Sell on GunsAmerica!<\/a>***<\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cMost of the people I work within the wildlife law enforcement field love social media because some people can&#8217;t resist bragging,\u201d explained Keith Wintersteen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":113665,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_specdata_upc":"","_specdata_placement":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1273,1217,216,992],"tags":[1276],"featured":[4081],"hunt365":[4089],"class_list":{"0":"post-113664","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gunsamerica-authors","8":"category-huntnews","9":"category-hunt365","10":"category-s-h-blannelberry","11":"category-specialty-publications","12":"tag-huntnews","13":"featured-row3","14":"hunt365-hunting"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Social Media Proving to be a Useful Tool to Catch Poachers<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"\u201cYou know, we ended up getting a lot of this information from a guy in Bozeman off of Facebook because you guys put a bunch of stuff on social media...&quot;\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/hunt365-social-media-tool-catch-poachers\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Social Media Proving to be a Useful Tool to Catch Poachers\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"\u201cMost of the people I work within the wildlife law enforcement field love social media because some people can&#039;t resist bragging,\u201d explained Keith Wintersteen.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/hunt365-social-media-tool-catch-poachers\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Gun Reviews and News | GunsAmerica.com\/Digest\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/gunsamerica\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-08-05T05:20:41+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-08-04T01:54:51+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Montana-Poachers-Arrested-After-Killing-Mountain-Lion.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"768\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"652\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"S.H. 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