![]() However, the state redacted all information about the renters.Īccording to Tourism all rental information is redacted per Oklahoma Open Records Act. NewsChannel 4 obtained the rental permit from the state in order to track down the members of this group and sort it out. If this guy was in some kind of danger why didn’t he call 911?” “I’m the one who called 911,” Fenwick said. The ranger requested criminal charges for both the group-member and for Fenwick. The ranger investigated and filed an incident report with the Tourism Department.Īccording to the report, after Fenwick called for help, the renters told the investigator that Fenwick tried to “assault” their gate-keeper when he drove around that barricade. Initially, the Cleveland County Sheriff’s Office responded to the incident because there was no park ranger on site on a Monday morning at 9 a.m.įenwick says he was told the ranger was coming from Newcastle, Oklahoma and waited almost an hour for the ranger to arrive. When Fenwick spotted the loaded bow and arrow he called 911. At that point I thought ‘I’m getting out of here.'”įenwick says the group called themselves “12 Tribes” which is recognized by the Southern Poverty Law Center as a separatist hate group.Īccording to the Oklahoma Department of Tourism and Recreation the group rented out the entire south campgrounds. Then, I look over and this guy drew this bow and arrow and he pointed it at me. (The truck) blocked the road in front of me. “I shrugged my shoulders and drove past him. Then a big black pickup came barreling toward me. “I thought, ‘Who is this guy? Why is he stopping me? What is this about?'” said Fenwick. One hiker is warning others to watch out for questionable practices at the State Department of Tourism.īen Fenwick went hiking at Lake Thunderbird State Park when he had a run-in with an allegedly violent group which had taken over a part of a camping area.įenwick lives nearby and drives over to hike regularly.īut, a few weeks ago he tried to drive into the park when a man with a homemade road block tried to restrict all public access. It is Fall Break in Oklahoma and many families will be spending the weekend at a state park. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Part of the agreement is to remove all trash that we dig.Ĭurious.This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. ![]() I always make sure to save all my trash targets so I can show the Ranger if necessary. I park in the parking lot near the boat ramp and walk over to the swimming area. As long as you're in an approved MDing area, what can they say. Anyway, I wouldn't let the day use signs deter you you paid your fee and have your permit. I think that should be stated in BOLD CAPITOL LETTERS on the use permit it only makes sense that we plan on hunting the swimming areas. I reread my USE PERMIT after seeing your post and there is nothing anywhere on it saying MDing the swimming area's (in or out of the water) is not permitted. I think the only time I ever actually hunted the beach area was a few years ago, in winter, when the lake level was very low, and I had the whole place to myself. I always hunt the same swimming area inside the buoy line and almost always in the water. I've never ran into the problems you encountered today. I've water hunted Thunderbird Lake several times over the past 4 or 5 years and already twice this summer. ![]() So it looks like there are limited, good, places to water hunt at this park.Īnyone else come to this conclusion or had a similar experience with this park lately That I needed to get a camp site in order to use it. So that tells me that I can't park there and use that section for a day trip. After driving around and looking for some of these area's, I found signs posted in them that said "DAY USE PROHIBITED". One of the ladies that worked in the office proceeded to tell me that people swam almost anywhere around the lake and that I still had plenty of water to hunt in. Water detecting was off limits inside the buoyed off area's. The park manager overheard and informed me that even though the beach was in a permitted area, ALL of the beaches were off limits for metal detecting. I noted on the map that there was a beach area in a "permitted" section of the park and commented that would be an ideal place to go. I was given a map of the park that had all the permitted area's to metal detect highlighted along with a copy of my permit. I did the good deed and stopped at the park office to spend my $5 to get a metal detecting use permit for the State Park. This morning after hitting one of the close by beaches and coming up empty handed, I decided to head to Lake Thunderbird.
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