Great job to everyone involved. This is how it's supposed to work. The pubic sees poaching and contacts Operation Game Thief (OGT). The Game Wardens take if from there.
OGT is a worthwhile program that all hunters should support. The billboard that the involved citizen saw on the highway cost OGT $$$. It’s good to see a return on the investment in the billboards. I’ve seen OGT billboards traveling Texas highways and I’m sure many others have seen them too. OGT is funded by private donations and unless the billboards were donated, OGT had to part with some bucks to make it happen.
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Operation Game Thief is Texas' Wildlife Crime-Stoppers Program, offering rewards of up to $1,000.00 for information leading to the arrest and conviction for a wildlife crime. Begun in 1981 as a result of laws passed by the 67th Legislature to help curtail poaching, the program, a function of the Law Enforcement division of The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, is highly successful, having been responsible for the payment of over $195,000.00 in rewards. Privately funded, the program is dependent on financial support from the public through the purchase of OGT merchandise and memberships, donations, sponsorships, and gifts.
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OGT is a program all of us should get behind. Billboards don’t come cheap. Here’s a link to their website.
http://www.ogttx.com/
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“There is no stronger deterrent to a poacher than the knowledge that his peers find his philosophy and actions unacceptable to the point that they will report him to the game warden.”
* Buddy Turner - OGT Program Director*
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