Reports on Poachers skyrocket in Minnesota

This newspaper article talks about the recent increase in phone calls to the Turn In a Poacher (TIP) Hotline being referred to the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources.  This lead to a huge increase in poaching arrests in 2012.  The number of calls being referred to the DNR increased by 54% from 2011 to 2012.  In 2012, there were 2,051 phone calls reporting poachers which led to 359 arrests.  There was a 29% increase in arrests in 2012 because of the high number of phone calls  This was a significant increase from 1,328 phone calls in 2011 .  Because of this rise in the number of phone calls, it set the new record for the number of the phone calls reporting on poaching.  The previous record was set in 1981 with 1,866 phone calls.   The Minnesota DNR said that there was a big increase in phone calls and arrests in 2012 because TIP referred a record number of phone calls to them.
I think this is a good article to use for my research paper because it has up-to-date stats on reporting on poaching and the arrests.

2012 was a bad year for poachers. (2013, February 5). Echo Press. Retrieved from     jhjhjhjhjhttp://www.echopress.com/