at the maiden bauer center in bellevue we attend the twelfth annual two thousand and twelve seattle sportsmen's convention impressive fundraising event i've got my brother with me the hunter in the family but also be helping out we'll take a look at some of the silent auction items know that's something you put on the couch during some of these things are obviously for home right some for actual hunting i believe because it is a silent auction to raise items that are two three hundred dollars may go for a thousand  burned paws and water this what how is history gone and i mean this was there's i there's so many different questions i have but i know there's three entities involved and it's been around for twelve years now bringing us a little history of well like you said it's been around for twelve years now and twelve years ago some somebodies and i were sitting in a duck blind doing little duck hunting and one was the president of the foundation one was a president of wild sheep foundation one was a local resident of the seattle sports in club and we're all going to each other's events and they're they're pretty small you're bringing in about one hundred people we're all paying a fee to go to these little small events and we're all we're all in it for the same reason we're all trying to raise money for by them otherwise i would have been a horrible accident  routines and again try to try to get the fear of humans back into them so they just just stay away from it when eating more to do with us than we do with them well with with the conservation there's i know that allocated by the fish and wildlife and each year they do management studies from the previous year will be harvested that dictates how many tags will be given away this year now you know for those that don't understand them i'm going to guess here harvesting means that they were killed by hunters again but it's all it's all managed quite effective again they have regulated number of attacks be given each g m u which is game management unit and now you have when you enter that drawing or whatever how  the numbers were pretty much all the animals are fairly high still all apps i mean i mean because i'm guessing that a lot of them don't have a natural enemies so that's why they actually have with horse so it's up it's all managed quite offended but i know there's natural predators out there sure there's cougars there so there's wolfs are creeping into the northeast part of our state but she's a very serious topic in fact they've become over populated way over populate in idaho montana already no one even there they've devastated the moose population in wyoming so the tag numbers have dramatically dropped on moose in wyoming for that reason but now there's there's lots of magic natural predator so now if the wolves start coming more and more into the state of washington sure then what's going to happen well you know it going to be manageable hopefully they'll open up a season for wolfs if not the tag numbers will continue to drop is are also a good meat and i don't think so ok so more like a trophy them because i know that my brother goes hunting mostly for the meat yeah them well i know we've taken quite a bit of your time and you just got here and so you have other things to do yes is there anything that we didn't address that you don't like to address to the viewers i'll check out a working for wildlife i was going to ask you about the website  into conservation we've got lots of exciting projects coming up we haven't fencer out the year we've all made some new lifelong friends that we've made throughout these affiliations a lot of good guys here a lot lot of good sportsmen and women a talking to the viewers and appreciate it and we'll check out some more of the vendors apparently the gentleman that does some of the work how many hours does it take you to create something like that on the car and i probably had in twenty hours twenty five on that i maybe thirty altogether some states a little but washington there is no laws you can still find them any time you want irgun you got to buy a license to do and how much drillings you have to do to make it a lamp well it starts right here you see when the cord comes out and i went all the way up to all the horns to come out here children you know these horns were drilled out british columbia this way we have an artist another booth that caught my attention was this one but it's because actually this gentleman here on his shirt has th is about we do animal conservation and our guy territory we have the guides all the counts of all the animals every time they go out and the hunters pay for the studies that we do we have helicopter accounts for all the goats and sheep sort of like what they do in america here but you're doing this up in a section and this is a place where you provide tours and guides for hunting and things like that yes we do guide school that we teach people how to be a guide writing and things like that going on and looks like you got a nice to have been up there too yeah that's our main ranchhouse inside the living room there and of course if you want more information name is carrie hunt and she has these dogs at the wynn river bear institute she wanted to put some white into the dogs so at night they use it more easily to be seen and found because it night they work a lot of nights you want to come look at the front so they can yell at the dog or bark at the dog i mean that dogs can bark at them it's really dark but what happens is the bear will normally stay in the back of the trap the dogs will come right up here and both these people will jump back and be scared of this thing if you watch these dogs in the very comes out from these dogs won't even put their heads back they will sit there and go nose to nose with these thugs are fearless in their own sense yes in these particular areas all the conflict which means they've already been graded to be a dog did not get me scared of a bear where other dogs in the same litter may be scared these dogs have already been graded so you know that they won't right where we are i'm an important officer so i wouldn't be for any of those you know specially the wildlife and push laws in the state of washington and that's our job is to enforce those laws that have compliance i mean i am police officer i can also rescue from jaywalking the dots if i start doing that then of course i think i've probably spent too much time in the wrong spot but our job in this state also is to deal with dangers wildlife dangerous wildlife and we consider mainly moose and the wolves which we don't have yet to have deal with but cougar and bear the lesser animals which are raccoons and that we don't deal with very often but it's the bigger animals that can actually do major physical damage if they decide to do that so all the game words in this state are dual purpose to not process some states aren't this way but washington is so is a game where i am forced to laws but i also do a lot of what we call control on big game and on job opportunity is we're still hiring people and it's a hard job to get there aren't very many jobs but it's a great job to get if you can get it and if you're talking to people or young people you're telling the different drugs if they take drugs it's already a killer you've just burnt the bridge so when the first things you need to do is decide you want the job and you want the job enough or you're not going to be lured into this disease of drugs well i have it also you have some casings over here this these are just gives you an idea what we're looking dog if you toto the bear that bears right there with that dog's nose what that bears learning is that dogs are going to back down so then when you see the picture on the bottom you see the bear taking off that process is already handled where that be nose to nose with those two dogs on the side and he knows those dogs are not going to back down once the door opens so he comes around to the right or left he's going to get in a fight if you're a wild animal if you get hurt in a fight you probably won't recover very easily you cannot afford to get in a fight that you can't afford to be and so there are ninety nine times out of a hundred they're going to run for the woods just as you would see your picture well it's been a fascinating time talking to you as well as talking off camera and if people are more information or maybe job opportunities to guys have a website yeah but you better ask somebody else about computer stuff because i'm an idiot when it comes computers but there is a complete web sites and stuff because what we're trying to do is save wildlife by using these dogs to enhance the lives and keep bears and cougar alive rather than you know where they get in a problem we have to put them down and the last thing i would say is these dogs are all funded through donations so the state doesn't put any money in these dogs so the officers themselves have to either come up with the money and we put our own money into a vet bill certain look around here the bad news are some items that they have a raffle and from what i saw on some of the buckets some of them only had one or two tickets someone's going to be a winner and on the other side they had the green if they're drawing a little bit more than the buckets at the moment but it looks like they have a pretty good chance of winning something a number of critters cover all of your so you do a lot of hunting obviously yeah and what is the open argand valley service exactly where guide service would provide hunting hunting and fishing for for people want to come out and have a good experience and both cross serbo or whatever yeah well i do i do the rifle muzzleloader early archery and later treehouse to do a lot of turkey hunts as well also you know we kind of rotate with the seasons we do it all now i learned a little bit from my brother but for those that have no idea you always hear things like oh that was a three point buck or five point b know it's a ten inch long you can count it as a point off the main beam and everything like a little drop time here on the left hand side there i wouldn't consider that a point or anything but you know every legal point of foot over an inch long you can consider it a point and how long have you been hunting yourself i've been hunting since g since i was probably five years old i can remember and so obviously your dad took you and yeah dad took me out of here and i've been doing it ever since since i was little and so we're for fifteen years now i saw some pictures and my understanding is that the way it was maybe twenty years ago but farmers are made out of wood and i had to part polyurethane  and how long does it take to put one of these together just like just the head and shoulder i guess that comes with your couple days into it two days into it probably pretty easy and extend that depends on position their ears however the customer prefers  sounds like interesting profession it is very very gratifying and how long to take to do this cap oh you're looking at probably a week we can ask project to learn more about the thirteenth annual seattle sportsman's convention with silent auction and banquet dinner occurring from three pm to ten pm on february ninth at the lynwood convention center please visit working for wild life dot com please visit my archive page at seattle community media dot org slash node slash one two three seven four slash list shows on my website is being updated or shoot me an email and i'll send you the link and  always thank you for watching adventure t