{"id":772,"date":"2010-07-15T12:08:02","date_gmt":"2010-07-15T19:08:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lewiscountysirens.com\/?p=772"},"modified":"2010-07-15T12:08:02","modified_gmt":"2010-07-15T19:08:02","slug":"news-brief-texting-with-fish-and-wildlife-enforcement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/?p=772","title":{"rendered":"News brief: Texting with Fish and Wildlife enforcement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Sharyn\u00a0 L. Decker<br \/>\nLewis County Sirens news reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Now if you&#8217;re out in the woods and come across a poacher you want to turn in, it&#8217;s as easy as sending a text message.<\/p>\n<p>The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife is offering a text tip system to report fish and wildlife violations directly and anonymously to its dispatch center, according to a news release.<\/p>\n<p>With a limited number of WDFW officers in the field, the public plays a critical role in protecting natural resources by reporting illegal activity, according to Chief Bruce Bjork, head of the WDFW enforcement program.<\/p>\n<p>Tips should be sent to 847411 (TIP411); the message must begin with WDFWTIP followed by a space and the a brief description of the violation and the location, according to authorities.<\/p>\n<p>Enforcement officials advise against confronting a suspicious person, but say helpful information includes a license plate number, vehicle color and make, the type of suspected violation, time it occurred and a brief description of the persons involved.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about various ways to report violations, go to <a title=\"various ways to report fish and wildlife violations\" href=\"http:\/\/wdfw.wa.gov\/enforcement\/reporting_violations.html\">http:\/\/wdfw.wa.gov\/poaching\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Sharyn\u00a0 L. Decker Lewis County Sirens news reporter Now if you&#8217;re out in the woods and come across a poacher you want to turn in, it&#8217;s as easy as sending a text message. The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife is offering a text tip system to report fish and wildlife violations directly and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[9,10],"class_list":["post-772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs","tag-by-sharyn-l-decker","tag-news-reporter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=772"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":775,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772\/revisions\/775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}