P Joe said:
3 examples that prove JB wrong.
Where was the sheriff at in thes 2 examples??? Seems to me that GF&P has the same authority as the HP and Sheriff :shock:
A Trooper was called to assist Game, Fish and Park officers at Diamond Lake. The GF&P broke up an underage drinking party; and some of the juveniles ran off. One even ran into the lake, but was brought in by a Warden. Three vehicles were towed because they had driven into State land where driving was not allowed. While inventorying a car, the Trooper found some drug paraphernalia. He was able to find its owner and cited him.
Several Troopers assisted GF&P officers at an underage beer party at Diamond Lake in northwest Minnehaha County. Numerous arrests for underage drinking were made along with an arrest for possession of marijuana. A GF&P officer was assaulted by one of the young male drinkers and he was arrested for Simple Assault.
A Trooper stopped a vehicle in Gregory County resulting in the driver being placed under arrest for DUI. While performing a vehicle inventory, two undersized walleyes were found hidden in the boat. A Conservation Officer was called and the suspect was cited for two counts of "fish length" violation as well. The vehicle had fifty-five cans of beer in it that appeared to have been recently consumed.
http://www.hp.state.sd.us/back/061502.htm
This does not prove me wrong. This proves that in your neck of the woods, GF&P has some power. Mostly on STATE owned land.
I am going by what the Deputy sherriff who lives close to me, in THIS county told me. I merely repeated what he told me. I did not lie.
Maybe he got it wrong. But he also mentioned that GF&P did not like that our Sherriff said that his deptartment has more power than GF&P. Or anyone else. Read the constitution.
We have a Deputy who lives within 15 miles of here and there is pretty much always one patroling within a half an hour of this area.
There is a GF&P official one hour from me on either side. Neither have ever been to my place. The Deputy has.
I went to highschool with the sherriff.
My wife see's the sherriff almost daily, at her job.
I own and run on all private ground.
Soooo, with all of this knowledge, you tell me, who am I going to call, if I have a problem with tresspassers?
I'll call the Sherriff's office, thank you. You call the GF&P.
I've called the GF&P and gotten no response, for the simplew fact that there are fewer of them to cover a larger area. They can't get to all the places that could use their help.
Maybe you need to realize that out here in west river, we live farther apart and have less people and therefore less GF&P officials, not withstanding the Black Hills area.
Before you get on your high horse and accuse me of lying, maybe you need to understand what I am saying, first.
State Statute maybe says GF&P has more power, but in practice, our local sherriff's Department has the power, around here.
I don't know if there has ever been a showdown between them.
Again, if I have a problem with tresspass, I will call the Sherriff's Dept. I'm sure I will get quicker results.
Also, most tresspass would come about during a hunting season. In the past, I have informed the people tresspassing that they were on private land and that they should go back to the land they were told they could be on. With a smile. No problem so far. Other than some trash alongside my road which showed up, right after I informed some people of this. Wonder who put it there?
You see, PJ, out here we don't bother our local law enforcement people with problems, when we can handle them ourselves. And we ain't real big on lawyers and courts. Maybe that's why we all seem to get along pretty good and don't have many problems with each other.
I know pretty much everyone who lives in a 50 mile radius of me. They are all considered my neighbors. If I have a problem with any of them, we can set down and discuss it and resolve the problem. It's worked for years that way.
Hence, my asking you to stop in and we'd discuss it.
I guess things just work different out here. :roll:
