Poaching wildlife and damaging habitats affects present and future generations of wildlife, impacts communities and the economy, and creates enforcement challenges.
Sergeant Todd Hoodenpyl from the Oregon State Police Fish & Wildlife Division worked together with Tillamook-area radio station KTIL 95.9FM / AM1590 to develop a 60-second Public Service Announcement (PSA) encouraging the use of the Turn-In-Poachers (TIP) line to report wildlife and habitat law violations. The MP3 file recording of the PSA is provided in a link with this advisory and may be used by other radio stations.
The TIP program, developed in partnership with the Oregon Hunters Association, Leupold & Stevens, Inc., and Oregon Department of Fish & Wildlife, provides rewards for information leading to the arrest/conviction of person(s) for the illegal possession, killing, taking, and/or waste of deer, elk, antelope, bear, cougar, big horn sheep, mountain goat, moose, and/or game birds. TIP rewards can also be given for the illegal taking, netting, snagging, and/or dynamiting of salmon, steelhead, sturgeon, and/or large numbers of any fish listed in Oregon statute as a game fish.
In addition, a reward may be issued for information that results in an arrest/conviction of a person who has illegally obtained Oregon hunting/angling license or tags. People who "work" the system and falsely apply for resident licenses and/or tags are not legally hunting and/or angling and are considered poachers.
More information about the Turn-In-Poachers reward program is available on our website at:
http://www.oregon.gov/osp/FW/pages/f_w_tip.aspx.
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Sergeant Todd Hoodenpyl from the Oregon State Police Fish & Wildlife Division worked together with Tillamook-area radio station KTIL 95.9FM / AM1590 to develop a 60-second Public Service Announcement (PSA) encouraging the use of the Turn-In-Poachers (TIP) line to report wildlife and habitat law violations. The MP3 file recording of the PSA is provided in a link with this advisory and may be used by other radio stations.
The TIP program, developed in partnership with the Oregon Hunters Association, Leupold & Stevens, Inc., and Oregon Department of Fish & Wildlife, provides rewards for information leading to the arrest/conviction of person(s) for the illegal possession, killing, taking, and/or waste of deer, elk, antelope, bear, cougar, big horn sheep, mountain goat, moose, and/or game birds. TIP rewards can also be given for the illegal taking, netting, snagging, and/or dynamiting of salmon, steelhead, sturgeon, and/or large numbers of any fish listed in Oregon statute as a game fish.
In addition, a reward may be issued for information that results in an arrest/conviction of a person who has illegally obtained Oregon hunting/angling license or tags. People who "work" the system and falsely apply for resident licenses and/or tags are not legally hunting and/or angling and are considered poachers.
More information about the Turn-In-Poachers reward program is available on our website at:
http://www.oregon.gov/osp/FW/pages/f_w_tip.aspx.
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