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SECTION 2 - PAGE 1 - PLAINDEALER - WEDNESDAY, MAY 39, It* A~. Humor sometimes pervades conservation work Crop and livestock estimates sought through local survey By Join Will Conservation Police Officer I remember when I was a young boy, reading an article titled "Be a Game Warden Sleep Under the Stars-Catch Your Breakfast From a Cold •Trout Stream". That statement was enough to get my imagination of and running. Imagination became reality. For the last six years I have been an Illinois Conservation Police Officer (Game Warden). But the sleeping out under the stars was not quite like I had dreamed. There have been many nights I have been out under the stars; not sleeping, but shivering in myNboots waiting for a deer poacheNto return to his illegal kill. Catching trout from a cold stream? Never. But I have caught a cold when I fell in the creek while checking an illegal trap line. Amusing things do happen to us while working. I remember one night while working "shiners", deer poachers who use spotlights at night, another officer and myself watched a vehicle drive down through the river bottom. We both agreed the vehicle was driving too fast to be a poacher, but suddenly the vehicle stopped directly in front of us, and shined a light on our vehicle. As quickly as the light came on, it went off. Conservation Connection A chase ensued and, later, as were arresting the subjects for having loaded rifles in their vehicle, the one stated, "The very first time I go shining, the first thing I turn my light on is a game warden!" Forestry camp scheduled If this was not enough, a year later my partner was working deer hunters in the same area. It was getting late and some deer hunters were coming his way with some illegal deer. The only place my partner could hide was an outdoor privy near their vehicle. As he listened to their converstation about what they were going to do with the poached deer they had, one of them stated, "Put the deer in the outhouse. Nobody will find it in there!" Since it was now dark, the subjects {grabbed the deer, opened the privy door and started to cary the deer in. The poacher looked to his right only to find his face three inches from the face of my partner. The poacher dropped the deer and took off running and screaming. Who was he? The "shiner" we had caught the previous year. Another incident occurred when I went duck hunting with three individuals two weeks before the season. They told me they never had seen a game warden. And, where we were going, a "Warden could never find them, or so they thought! A question the public asks quite often is, "Why do you wear a gun when all you do is just check hunting and fishing licenses?" We have apprehended murderers, armed robbers, escaped prisoners and other types of dangerous persons in the course of our duties. A fact not usually known is that the Conservation police officer is more likely to be injured or killed than other police officers. One local fast food store gives police officers a free soft drink when they eat their meal in the store. The other day one of the girls asked the manager if the Conservation officer gets a free drink. His reply was, "No, he is just a game warden. We have to draw the line somewhere" Oh well, so much for the game warden. At least he gets to sleep out under the stars and catch his breakfast from a cold trout stwam. A nationwide survey to identify 1984 crop acreage and livestock numbers will include contacts with McHenry County farmers, the Illinois Cooperative Crop Reporting Service has announced. Shirley Nichols, representing service, said that she will be contacting local producers in late May and early June for information abut acres actually planted or planned for 1984 and the number of livestock on hand. All information will be kept confidential and used only in developing official state and national estimates. Mrs. Nichols said that farmer cooperation is necessary to the development of reliable estimates, noting that this year's rising crop prices and tight stocks, as will as the un­ certainty surrounding prospects for 1984 crops, make it essential to have dependable data for decisionmaking. The report on spring planted acres will be. available to far­ mers on June 28, followed on July 10 with estimates of yield and production for several major crops. Hog and pig numbers will be reported June 21, and cattle numbers on July 20. RECOGNIZED, Illinois State Police Master Sergeant Jack Erickson of Woodstock was recently recognized for his 25 years of State Police service by Superintendent Laimutis A. Nargelenas. Since 1952, over 1,500 high school students and teachers have attended Illinois Forestry Camp at Southern 4-H Camp near West Frankfort, Illinois, and 1984 presents another op­ portunity to attend the educational experience. The coeducational workshop was created through the cooperative efforts of the forest- related agencies in Illinois to give interested young people and educators a better un- derstanrtins of natural resource management. Applications are available from the McHenry County Cooperative Extension Service Office, 789 McHenry Ave. Box 431, Woodstock, 60098 or phone (815) 338-3737. The application deadline is June 18. ^ Eligibility requirements for the camp are: high school students ages 14 through 17 years (as of January 1, 1984); primary or secondary teachers; and a desire to learn more about natural resources management. 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