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Early Michiganders recognized the rich and vast natural treasures surrounding them and the need for their conservation and protection. The result was the first salaried U.S. game warden, William Alden Smith, who was appointed in 1887. Warden Smith was charged principally with appointing deputies for the enforcement of fish and game regulations.
A conservation officer may also be referred to as an environmental technician/technologist, game warden, park ranger, forest watcher, forest guard, forester, gamekeeper, investigator, wilderness officer, wildlife officer, or wildlife trooper.
The new legislation also required wardens and deputies to wear a metallic badge when on duty and with authorization to carry a weapon. "The wardens and deputies, when on duty, shall wear and display a metallic badge bearing the seal of the commonwealth and the words "fish and game warden" or "deputy fish and game warden", as the case may be.
Feb. 15—Investigators believe they have solved the Great Depression-era cold case of an Idaho game warden who vanished in the mountains south of Mullan. Though the body of Ellsworth Arthur Teed ...
On July 16, Game Warden Jeremy Schmid got a call from the Stowe Police Department saying a bear had climbed a two-story deck at a condominium development near downtown and now found itself in the ...
Two men have been charged by summons after firing 45 bullets in the direction of two game wardens and a hunter during Pennsylvania rifle deer season. Body armor-wearing men face multiple charges ...
Since the establishment of the department, eleven officers have died while on duty. In the 1920s and 1930s, five game wardens died from gunfire, and two game wardens died from drowning/pneumonia. Two additional officers were fatally shot in 1952 and 1960. On December 19, 1972, two game wardens died in an aircraft accident. [5]
The incident happened around 10:30 a.m. on Nov. 24, a few miles south of Zeandale in rural Riley County, the Kansas game wardens said in a Facebook post Friday. The farmer was out feeding their ...