Why don,t you post Russ last name or PM me so I can ask nim why he is telling you its legal to leave out a cam on state land which goes against the State Law.
I can't see the email either.
You should call or email the rap hotline tonight or tomorrow with the location of a few trail cams on public land and have them go arrest the offenders.
The outcome and reaction of that call should answer if it's against the law, I think if it was illegal we would have heard about it, someone would have got a citation like the baiting tickets that every hunter has heard about, I know a few guys who have gotten that one.
Funny thing about the cam issue is one friend was getting questioned While standing on his corn talking to the CO and the trail cam was taking pics the whole time...he doesn't bait anymore but his cams are still out there. Was a funny pic he posted on Facebook.
My trail cams have my phone number and name on them if a hunter wants to call and talk about the spot and I can let them know when or if I am hunting it. Since I hunt all season I won't crowd someone just hunting a few days in November like the majority of deer hunters do, I can hunt it in December...or like usual the woods are pretty much wide open starting this weekend for the rest of the year.
A CO could call me too, I still haven't received a call from anyone though. I know I don't have more than 30 hunter pics the last 3 years, I pick spots with low hunting pressure...and my cams are usually about 8' off the ground. And that's with 20 cams out mostly on state land.
Only had 2 guys notice my cams, a duck hunter and a father and son. I just wave or give the peace sign to all the cams I see in the NW lower and keep walking.