Man pleads guilty to illegal outfitting

Jody K. Hansen (52), from Rudyard, plead guilty to two counts of outfitting without a license in Hill County.

In 2019, wardens began investigating Dogwood Hunting, the private lands outfitting business run by Hansen south of Rudyard, under the suspicion that Hansen was illegally taking some of his hunting and fishing clients on related activities outside his private land.

During the investigation, wardens found that Hansen and his associate, Robert Spicher (56) of Hingham, outfitted fishing trips along the Marias and Missouri Rivers and hunts on adjoining private and public properties, in purs...