Game Wardens Research Paper

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Game Wardens
A Game Warden is a type of law enforcement who works in the woods to enforce laws. A game warden’s job is to protect the wildlife. Game wardens patrol the woods to to keep laws from being broken. Game wardens work on different terrains because each lives in areas of different terrains and places. Keeping laws, such as, only taking five fish instead of more helps the wildlife because there will be more fish to reproduce. If people were to out fish ponds and take lots of fish from the lakes and ponds we will run out of fish, and that is not good for our wildlife. Game wardens are the ones who protect the animals. Without wardens people could sneak more than their limit of fish or animals. The wardens make sure no one takes more …show more content…

He said college was different from high school and had unique challenges to face as a young adult forcing him to get higher grades. He does not regret going to college because it got him ready for the game warden training group (B.L.E.T.P) which is 60% more academic. He enjoys his job. The hardest parts of the job he said are when people violate the law in his district because he takes it personally, dealing with a careless death of a person that could have been prevented, and having to tell loved ones that that person died. His favorite part of the job is rendering aid to a person who can not help themselves and when he brings in an intentional violator to justice. He said the hardest seasons are bug season and that each season poses a new challenge which makes the job interesting. A typical work day for him is that he goes out and searches for intentional violators no matter the season. They are always on guard on potential dangers. The skills needed are officer safety skills, navigation skills, people skills, emergency vehicle driving skills, knowledge of the laws and rules like watercraft, snowmobile, atv operational skills. You need to know this in case like getting his truck stuck with no one around to help. He got his job by going through the application process to become a game warden. Once he was selected he had to go through 18 weeks of training at BLETP and then 14 weeks of Advanced Warden School. The reasons for becoming a game warden is different for each person and is something you need to figure out on your own and must be important to you. Otherwise you will not last long in this career. The courses he recommended for me are criminal justice courses because they are great if you want to be a warden and to spend a lot of time outside and learn because that is not taught in class. Then once you’re 18 you can ride with a game warden and get familiar

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