In just a few days the gun deer season opens here in Wisconsin and many hunters say they can't wait to get their sights on that perfect buck. However the DNR is asking hunters to keep their eyes open for something else while they're out in the woods.

Wardens are asking hunters to be on the look out for drugs being grown or manufactured in the forest. Wardens say they're finding drug operations on public land and that makes it very hard to catch the people responsible.

With bow season coming to a close and gun season just days away, the DNR is asking hunters to help them out.

"What hunters might run into is an area like that when they can see an area where someone is living where they brought in soil that has the little while specks, potting soil and some other things that look out of place in a public hunting area," says Warden Bill Yearman.

DNR Warden Bill Yearman says if you're out hunting and find something out of place leave it alone.

"Since there's a lot of eyes and ears out there now if they see something that they think is drug related activity don't do anything, don't try and take anything into your own hands and don't do a lot of looking around," says Yearman.

The DNR says in the last two years two large pot growing operations were fund on public land. One of them was found last month by a bow hunter in Buffalo County.

While hunters, who were getting their tags Wednesday, say it's a good idea, they question what some hunters would really do.

"Some of them will, some won't, some will turn a eye. That's hunters for you," says hunter Al Corneiller.

"I bet a lot of people would just walk past it, just turn their head," says hunter Steve Krause.

Yearman says if you come across an area that you think is a possible drug operation, don't touch anything and back out the way you came. He says try to remember where the location is and jot down any details you can remember.

Deputies are still looking for up to six people who harvested a large amount of pot deep in the Buffalo County swamp. Officers say the fields could have produced millions of dollars worth of Marijuana.