K-9 UNCOVER BAITING ON WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT AREAS

Fourteen times during October the K-9 teams of the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources were deployed. In Region One, Lance Cpl. Brian Welch and K-9 Max of Clemson were deployed five of those times. They investigated baiting in wildlife management areas, trespass to hunt, and failure to tag deer at the point of kill, over the limit of deer, night hunting, and small game out of season. According to the DNR, the team was requested in the National Forest in Oconee in reference to a suspect who possibly shot over the limit of deer. K-9 Max tracked the suspect nearly one-half mile through thick vegetation, locating the kill site, an additional untagged doe, the stand location, and a spent shell casing.