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Chair Fleming.

From the roll call, I would like to jump to Pledge of Allegiance.

And to the Republic, to which it stands.

One nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all.

All right.

Let's go ahead and move on to public comment.

I'll take any in person.

Any online.

Okay.

Since we did receive this from the Churchill County Advisory Board to manage wildlife, it is in a writing to respectfully propose the board consider adopting regulations authorizing the controlled use of trained blood trailing dogs and unmanned aerial systems.

I guess we can just keep this open right now.

For this is the place to talk about it as public comment on how the board sits feels.

Ideas, thoughts.

I just have questions to how this is going to be enforced.

I don't really know how much it could be enforced, is the issue, right?

And then I think the biggest concern I see with this is just the opening up of the door, right?

With the drones.

Yeah, what is it between catching someone with the drone that's out there saying, hey, shot would have got this instead of discussing.

Yeah.

That's kind of more.

Or I see the trained blood dog.

I don't know.

Yeah, we've talked about this in the past.

And I if there's some sort of certifying there actually are certified certifying bodies out there for this type of training.

And if that was something to be adopted, I wouldn't be against it.

But as we discussed, it's uh there's too much room for abuse in regards to drones.

Especially how you they want thermal.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah, I don't I don't have a problem with the dogs.

That the drones are what's kind of setting me back on this, also.

So are there groups that certify dogs to do this?

There are groups that do that, yeah.

And it's and it's uh like in Africa, they use like two dogs most of the time they're Jack Russell's or other type of small dogs to trail.

Um I don't know what all they're using in America, they're probably using hounds and stuff more than anything.

So do we have any appetite then where we want to because we can't really take any action here, but we can respond back as a board to them, correct?

That's correct.

Is there something that we want to put our name on it in regards to yeah, the trained blood trailing dogs, but not the unmanned aerial systems, or is this just something that we want to let stay that we're not for the drones, but we're really not gonna throw our hat in the ring?

Yeah, I mean, if if it could be if this is being discussed at the commission meeting, or if they wanted like a response from us, I think I mean pretty much we're with the right certification.

I think we're all good with the blood training dogs for the most part.

Yeah, go ahead.

Why turn your bike on Dorsey?

If they can't track it a large animal through the rocks and stuff, how are they gonna trade it track a small dog?

So the dog actually tracks the scent of the blood.

I know so they've they the dog will follow the scent and alert somehow, either barking or waiting for the handler to show up.

Oh, that's that's all they do.

They just track the blood smell.

I think she's saying along the lines of if they can't track that, how are they gonna train a dog and get that and they're gonna find it and do that?

And then how are they gonna get the dog if you're gonna have to find the trail?

You're gonna have to figure that out on on the fly, I think.

But yeah, I don't know.

I mean, this is this is proposed for large game.

I'm assuming so we're talking deer and elk and big horn sheep and stuff like that.

Yes, okay.

Yeah, so I almost think whoever's at the Reno meeting, because that's the next one, right?

I think we just wait for this to get brought up, and then we can voice our opinion as the board in regards to on the line of supporting trained blood training trailing dogs with the right certification, right?

And that we don't support the unmanned aerial systems if everyone's okay with that.

Yeah, I'm gonna vote.