This is a lot of sh**....cuz park people and enviro people do it all the time.
As other coverage has noted, the DC resident harassing elk near Jackson Hole, not a low income destination, got off with an under $300 fine. Harrassment of wildlife is $5m. And I believe drones are not allowed on federal property. At least parks, monuments and refuges. Which this is.
Didn’t the BLM do this at the Bundy Ranch with no penalty?
Cost of a Park People Party.
What you really don’t want to do is piss off the tigers:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVj-u3j3KBk
>Knowing that there’s an airport in proximity to where you’re flying your drone. Is there helicopter use?
Dude, first off, helos are the easiest to avoid and to know when they are coming your way. Out here in the sticks and stones where the .99 mach come to play I have to always be ready for evasive action.
My fastest RC plane can do over 240 mph and the cowboys in F16s, F18s and jet trainers can be on me before I do a split S
to get lower than they are.
When flying the drone, I usually bring the coon cat with me and she lets me know when incoming are miles away.
When I finally can retire from work I’ll take the time to post some videos on a youtube channels or something. When I have a camera on the craft you can see the pre-shockwave wobble my aircraft goes through when our “converters of fuel to noise and speed” go by within 200 meters of me.
Thats boo chit.
I’d appeal...
Next thing you know, they will insist on suppressors so hunters’ shots don’t spook the herd....