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85 Pheasants Yield Big Fines


85 pheasants taken from pheasant poachers On October 19, 1999, Game Fish and Parks Conservation Officers Kraig Haase and Martin Yost received a TIPs call about hunters who killed over their limit of pheasants. After investigating the case, they arrested five poachers with 85 pheasants. The final case resulted in fines of $4,413 and civil damages of $2,300. Total cost for a one weekend pheasant hunt - $6,713 and they lost their birds.