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Catching poachers, who hunt down everything from abalone to black-tailed deer, can be tough since so few game wardens patrol such a vast wildernes. So officials are trying something new. In a scene straight out of a television CSI crime show, game wardens and scientists are using DNA analysis and other high-tech measures to protect wildlife.
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Catching poachers, who hunt down everything from abalone to black-tailed deer, can be tough since so few game wardens patrol such a vast wildernes. So officials are trying something new. In a scene straight out of a television CSI crime show, game wardens and scientists are using DNA analysis and other high-tech measures to protect wildlife.
Broadcast History
Aired twice during Morning Edition B segment, KQED and KQEI, 6/26/08
Transcript
AMBI 1 truck sound SNEAKS up during first track.
Out in the dusty brown foothills of southern Monterey County, state Fish and Game warden Todd Tognazzini stops his truck to pick out wildlife hiding in plain sight.
AMBI 1 truck sound stops near end of previous track, door slams
AMBI 2
There?s a fawn right here, see the little guy right here in the trees? [mom?s probably close by somewhere?]
The newborn deer is about 20 paces from the road.
AMBI 3 Deer call
Tognazzini makes a deer call, and the young fawn stops in its tracks.
AMBI 3
Deer call
In the perfect position, Tognazzini says, to be blown away with a rifle.
ACT 1
It?s not something that?s a lot in the news? but there?s still a substantial amount of poaching that goes on.
On this remote road, Tognazzini says 1 in 5 trucks traveling through here will actually stop, pull out a wea...
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Catching poachers, who hunt down everything from abalone to black-tailed deer, can be tough since so few game wardens patrol such a vast wildernes. So officials are trying something new. In a scene straight out of a television CSI crime show, game wardens and scientists are using DNA analysis and other high-tech measures to protect wildlife. From KQED in San Francisco, David Gorn reports.
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