Any Undergrounder who badly wants to be on television might want to commit a major wildlife-related crime in Northern California right now – it seems a reality TV show is being made about Northern California’s game wardens:
Producers of the hit reality television series “Deadliest Catch” are filming a new show featuring California game wardens and their increasingly difficult struggle to protect the state’s environment. Shot as wardens chase real crimes throughout Northern California, it’s due to air late next year on the National Geographic Channel.Original Productions, the Burbank company behind “Deadliest Catch” and other gritty reality shows, began filming about two weeks ago. Locations include many areas in the Sacramento region, from the mountains surrounding Lake Tahoe to remote sloughs of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.
A film crew was on hand Saturday as wardens descended upon the home of a North Highlands man suspected of having wounded a Sacramento River sea lion with a shotgun blast.
I’m not a huge fan of reality TV (though I would enjoy watching a pair of wardens kick the crap out of the asshole who shot the sea lion), but this is the Underground’s home territory, and it will be interesting to see who’s doing what to which species.
And I want to dispel the rumors suggesting this show will feature Wally the Wonderdog poaching a sizable lamb roast from the kitchen counter. That really happened, but unfortunately, Fish & Game weren’t on hand to legally punsih the now-fattened Sausage Dog.
See you in the hoosegouw, Tom Chandler.
