• Warden Ponting received an anonymous letter from an individual indicating that three men in three separate households in the Porterville area were taking squirrels and black bass for illegal sale to locations in Fresno and San Diego. Consent inspections of the three houses described in the anonymous letter yielded 61 tree squirrels and 79 black bass. The squirrels and bass were all found in one home. The owner was cited for possessing overlimits. The illegal sale investigation continues.

• A man cited for taking dove out of season (the day prior to opening day) received a fine of $850 in the Visalia Court. His two shotguns were ordered destroyed by the court. In another case in the Visalia Court, an unlicensed dove hunter who hid his shotgun and doves from Warden Conely was fined $665. This hunter's shotgun was also ordered destroyed.

• Two hunters caught taking valley quail out of season were each fined $625 in the Sanger Division Court of Fresno County.

• Due to ongoing road hunting problems in Stanislaus County, wardens ran two decoy operations for the pheasant opener. As a result of the detail, the decoys were shot at 13 times. Five citations were issued for an assortment of violations (no hunting license, loaded guns in vehicles, hunter trepass, shooting from vehicles and unplugged shotguns).

• Warden Woolsey recently received a Cal-TIP regarding an illegally killed bear. The bear had entered a forest campground in Madera County late at night. A camper tried to chase the bear away when another camper came running and shouting, "Don't scare the bear away, I have a bear tag!" The hunter then illegally shot the bear during the night hours and put his tag on it, using a false time when filling out the information that is required. Thanks to an alert camper, Cal-TIP and Warden Woolsey's investigation, this poacher was charged with the violation and is awaiting his court date at Sierra Superior Court in Madera County.