Fish and game warden
Description
Fish and game wardens enforce hunting, fishing, and wildlife laws, protecting natural resources and ensuring legal, sustainable use. The work involves patrolling lands and waters, checking licences and catches, investigating violations, gathering evidence, and exercising legal authority in remote and variable terrain.
They work for wildlife and conservation agencies. The role suits outdoor-capable, principled people who combine knowledge of wildlife and the outdoors with law-enforcement judgment, are comfortable working alone in the field, and are committed to protecting fish and game for the long term.
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