Well, I haven't read the regs, but here's the deal. If you do not cooperate with an LEO, you need to have a really, really, really good reason. If a DNR officers tells you that a trail is dangerous and you cannot snowmobile on it, as long as it's public land, you have to cooperate by not riding down there. So, technically the handbook may be entirely correct. Now, here's the limitation. Cooperation does NOT mean that you must assist or allow them to violate any of the constitutional protections afforded each individual.
So, if they ask you about those 35 ducks visible in your boat, and the pump action on the deck, you do not have to tell them 'yes sir, I used that pump action and shot all those ducks this morning'. You just admitted to a violation of the bag limit! You can always decline to offer information about anything you did. Let them figure it out. So - yes, cooperate but protect your rights. What will work best is if they threaten you with arrest if you don't offer up an explanation. Tell them to go ahead and arrest you, it absolutely won't stick for refusal to admit to a violation. Now, violating the bag limit might stick, but then again - maybe it won't. However, if you admit it, that can be used against you, even if you haven't been Mirandized.
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Today's Featured Article - Madison's County - by Anthony West. Philip Madison has been a good friend of mine for quite some time. He has patiently suffered my incessant chit chat on the subject of tractors for longer than I care to remember, and on many occasions he has put himself out, dropped what ever it was he was doing, to come and lend a hand cranking handles, or loading a find onto a trailer. Although he himself has never actually owned or restored a tractor, he was always enthusiastic and always around helping with other peoples projects.
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