Example #1. I found an abandoned vehicle about 300 meters off a road. It had been burnt, but was obviously abandoned. I reported the vehicle to the District Ranger, giving him the gps coordinates and how to access the area. That was four years ago, and the vehicle is still there. I would try hauling out parts of it every time I walk by it, but I consider it a crime scene and don't want to disturb any evidence.
Example #2. Bovines. This really annoys me. There never seems to be proper policing when it comes to domestic livestock. Nearly every year I find cattle in sheep allotments, or livestock in "vacant" allotments, or cattle on the allotment long after they should have been removed. Every year. One year I reported four bovines in an allotment on the Umatilla National Forest in the middle of November. I asked the range person for that district when the cows were suppose to be removed, and she told me she couldn't reveal that information to me unless I submitted a Freedom Of Information Act (FOIA) request.
Example #3. While hiking in one of the Wilderness Areas on the Wallowa-Whitman National Forest, I encountered a hunter who was using a chainsaw to clear the trail. I talked with man, and got his name and filmed him with my camera while he was telling me he knew he was in wilderness and what he was doing was illegal. When I got back to the trailhead I wrote down his license plate. I gave all this information to the Law Enforcement Officer (LEO) for the Forest, and he has subsequently ignored doing anything about it. I had the perp's name, license plate, and a video the the criminal, and nothing became of the case.
Here's the video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCDkxaCOYvs
What am I doing wrong? Am I reporting these crimes to the wrong people? Should I go straight to the State Police, or the FBI, or what? Do I need to follow up on these things?
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