Raid on St. Martin’s Island in Michigan’s U.P. Some More to the Story 12-14-09
gengberg December 14th, 2009
I’m sending this to you since I don’t want to have to create a TON of new forum memberships just to get the word out …
Fellow hunters,
On Friday afternoon, December 11th, I spoke directly with Debbie Munson Badini of the Michigan DNR’s Marquette office. She is VERY familiar with this story.
First off, the pictures are legitimate, and were from a deer camp on St. Martin’s Island in the U.P. However, the implications of the original e-mail are incorrect.
Debbie informed me that there was no poaching or other large-scale illegal hunting going on. She did say there were some tickets issued for some incorrectly tagged deer, and wardens are investigating a few other possible violations, but that, again, this was NOT some sort of “poachers camp” [my quotes on that phrase].
She said that Michigan DNR has not publicized this as yet since they are waiting until their officers wrap-up and tie off some of the outstanding issues.
For more info: http://outdoornews.com/articles/2009/12/11/national_news/doc4b2264e4d2411086260389.txt
I hope you’ll pass this e-mail back down the line to, hopefully, correct any misconceptions about folks in the U.P.
Thanks!
Evan Bane
Glendale, Wis.
This email was sent to me by Evan Bane today. The rest of the story will come from the Michigan D.N.R. I’m sorry if I misled anyone. Gary
