Around here, in Ohio and Michigan, we have very good hunting and fishing. Including the world's best walleye river. The spring Maumee River spawning run has just begun, so the DNR guys are everywhere. What funny names to you guys use?
Fish Fuzz
Carp Cops
Possum Police
Raccoon Rangers
Duck Detectives,
are the ones I hear around here.

"Grouper Police"
But now you can insert any type of fish, there are so many regulations.
We used to a a decal tape measure, Law Stick


"Bring your Lawyer or bring a "Law Stick"


Was that center of the tail or tip of the tail?

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Still Running Against the Wind

My wife's cousin has been Ranger Rick to the family for the 40 years he's been with ODNR.

Ivan

"Crick dicks" .

(detectives)

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Music/Sports/Beer fan

Do Not Resuscitate.
I am the Lone Ranger.

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Kenny
Endeavor to persevere.

Close but no cigar. It's Grouper Trooper!

Yep, that's it. Been a while since I have been stopped for a "safety check"

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Still Running Against the Wind

Party Poopers. As in, "Aw, hell, here come the"

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Ukraine -- now more than ever

Rabbit Sheriff

Mullet Marshal

Possum Patrol

Deer Detective

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Bill

Law Enforcement. LOL

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Kenny
Endeavor to persevere.

Depending on the time of day I encounter them it's either Morning Sir or afternoon Sir.

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SWHF #595

Mostly No Sir, and Yes Sir, and of course Ma'm now also. The rest of the time " Moose and Goose ".

Pretty well covered in previous posts but here's one that's somewhat similar... deer deputy.

I only see the SCDNR who run the Pickens County shooting range.
He's a no-nonsense LT, so I just call him SIR.

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Slava Ukraini!

Talk about a dream job! -NO-, I’m not saying it’s easy. Just that it must be just an amazing career choice. I’m a little bit jealous.

Except that in FL their pay is pretty sorry.

I don't think anyone mentioned Coon Cop.

Michigan DNR = Damn Near Russians

Bird and Bunny
Hoof and hook

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fun meter pegged

I was fishing with a friend in Michigan and it was fish pigs.

Bird and Turtle Cops I have the greatest respect for these officers, nearly everyone they come in contact with is armed and they mostly work alone. Catch an episode or 2 of "Lone Star Law" and you will get a better understanding of these folks.

Good guy with a gun

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Some collect art; I shoot it!

What could be dreamier that being alone at night, all kinds of weather, in the woods facing a group of drunken idiots braking the law, armed with high power rifles?

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Still Running Against the Wind

When I lived in mi what the locals in northern mich called them would get me banned from forum.

When I was working the road and saw the ODNR guys stopped in an adjoining field or road with someone it was normal to just stop and be seen. You never know, even though you might have been 50-100+ yards away, just being present might have kept someone from trying anything. We always worked alone and sometimes the only Trooper for 1 or 2 counties on night shift and some of the local ODNR guys would stop with us also. Then again, that applied to the Sheriff's Deputies and local PD units. We all want to go home at the end of our shifts.

Deputy Duck checked us in the marsh on Lake St Clair one morning in an airboat. It was prime time opening day and everyone in the marsh heard them coming a mile away. Scared all the waterfowl out of the area in the first 5 minutes, going blind to blind.

When they finally got to my partner and I, we already had our licenses out and our chambers empty. It was a female DNR officer with an Indian pilot. She inspected our birds, checked the guns and shells and asked where our boat was. I led her to the other side of the small island where the boat was hidden. I had a 50 Cal ammo can in the boat with a variety of different size steel and non-tox shells.

She went through every box, pulled out each shell and dropped them on the floor of the boat after inspection. When she finished, I asked her to please put them back the way she found them. If looks could kill... She randomly dumped shells back in the boxes and was on her way.

I supported DU at the time and understood the importance of protecting the resource, but I thought this was incredibly rude and over the top. She wasted a half hour of our time, ruined the morning hunt and I spent a good half hour that evening putting the shells back in the correct boxes. Most DNR officers I’ve encountered have been courteous, polite and some even offered good tips, but this one was a real piece of work.

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"I also cook."

Several times in my career I have called for a backup and one of the "Possum Police" would get there before one of my guys. They often helped us with boats and 4wd vehicles and manpower during manhunts, floods, and other emergencies. I can remember several in my state who were killed in the line of duty. They have my respect.

When I went through the Po-leese Academy in 1979, there were several "Coon Cops" aka game wardens in my class. At least they were able to drive their pick-up trucks, while most everybody else had to use their private vehicles.

They were all great guys.

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John 3:16
WAR EAGLE!

It would be potentially dangerous at times but i also think it would be an incredible job

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the rules? there are no rules

It takes someone that is very dedicated to be any kind of law enforcement officer. Game Wardens as they are usually called in OK, have a rewarding but dangerous job. Operating by themselves and contacting a bunch of drunks with guns is serious business.
Most of us obey the law and never have an issue. There are some people however, who think laws are made to be broken and resent those whose job it is to enforce them.

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Mighty 90's,Trying 4 a 100!

chad:

Naturally I'm wondering if you reported her behavior to her superiors at the agency. I certainly would have done so -may not have done much good, but then again it may have; who knows?

Regards,
Andy

Andy,
I did not. I have family and friends in law enforcement and have the greatest respect for the job they do. I actually studied Criminal Justice in College, before taking up engineering.

I didn’t think it would do any good, because of the powers they have in our State. Far beyond those of other LE agency’s.

Conservation Officers can enter gated property without a warrant or probable cause and look for violations. I’m not a violator and don’t want to cause trouble, but their disregard for our Constitution does bother me.

Edit to add:
Drivers can't be stopped without reason and have their licenses checked without cause, but the DNR can stop hunters and check for proper licenses at their discretion.

They can also pull drivers over and search their vehicle, without witnessing any violation, just because they're in an area where people hunt. Michigan law prohibits drive sobriety checkpoints, so I fail to understand how this is legal.

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"I also cook."

We've always referred to them as "Mr. Green Jeans" as far back as I can remember.

They wear (or did) wear green pants and khaki shirts.

Back before “Fisheries” and “Game” merged into “Wildlife” (in Washington State) that’s what we called Fisheries Officers.

Comrade, I mean colleague.

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213th FBINA

We call them the "Green Police", they wear green uniforms.

My brother calls the ones in the Florida federal fishing areas "Federales". As in "the state guys might give you a warning but the Federales won't cut you any slack" .

Glad all the DGIF (state, federal and local) are out there keeping the bad players honest as best they can!

I dealt with the game cops in Maryland a lot...some of the state guys were alright...Most I met when I was a kid had been some of the best game law violators going at one time....so the state gave 'em a job when jobs were scarce...turned 'em into upstanding game law enforcers. Guiding waterfowl hunters for more than 30 years I got to meet an awful lot of the Federal game wardens too. Some were ok...Some were *** holes. A guy named Parker comes to mind. Never was cited for anything but just dealing with them(Federal GWs) was sometimes aggravating. And If I had a game warden check all my shells I would have insisted on them putting them back correctly and then made a formal complaint. I was a good skwerl hunter as a kid and one state guy checked me every time he saw me on my bicycle with my little Win 37 410...Almost always had a limit and he always thought I was breaking the law.. But he did help me when I got my first deer. We loaded it in his trunk and he took me home. Couldn't get it tied on my bike. I was 11. We even threw the bike in the trunk...Didn't see many deer on the Eastern Shore in the 50s. That fellows name was Peeden if I remember correctly it was 60 yrs ago

Deer Cop....

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Regards,
Lee Jarrett

"Trout Troopers."

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Can open, worms everywhere.

The guys are really good people-I see them all the time up in court and get hunting-fishing reports from them. There also have been some grade A died in the woods alpha hotels. We has a couple one time purposely ruin a hunt-spend an hour rousting a hunting party of 10 people and finally found one violation-a guy with a brand new Browning A-5 with a factory plug that was too short-was able to squeeze 3 2&3/4 shells into the mag when the guy had only 3 shells on him (later got thrown out in court). The kid leading the "raid" was the son in law of the sheriff and trying to make a name for himself.

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Forum consigliere

ah yes.. Alpha Hotels. The aforementioned Fed waarden had That as a suffix to his name on his business cards. We also had a local GW who really disliked a local scofflaw we shall call LB. Ole LB was sitting in his truck backed up to a tree one fine morning after hunting some Canada geese. Well the game warden wanted to look in the back of his blacked out camper covered pick up. He told that ol Alpha Hotel GW the only way he could look in that truck is with a warrant. Said AH called the local sheriff department and had an officer watch said scofflaw while he went and got one. Now ol LB just waited around for a couple of hours till the GW got back with the warrant. He and some of his buds spent that time in the local watering hole right across the street. When the Alpha Hotel returned ol LB not being stupid allowed the deputy to move his truck so the GW could check the truck. Opened that blacked out camper and nada..not a thing back there... No feathers nothing. I think ol LB had even washed any blood out of that truck previously,, I did say he was a bit of a scofflaw but he really wasn't completely stupid ...At least that day. Now the said GW surely took a lot of laughs over that miscue...for months...maybe years. But scofflaws usually think they are bullet proof, ya know? That ol GW got LB one day...Seems he had 1(one) lead round with him while hunting. Ol LB swore that GW planted it... And I do believe him. He did have to pay a mostly minimal fine. So I guess the moral of the story is What goes around....comes around... BTW the above is a true story too

Affectionately referred to as:

Turkey Troopers
Rabbit Rangers.

Excellent officers and have my respect for their service.

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I am a sheep dog!
1601 (ret)

Me too! As long as they aren’t checking up on me.

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“Look life in its iron face”

There are 49 other states you know.

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Sure you did

Known as "Fish & Feathers" around this area.

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Kevin in Oregon

Y'all watched "Alaska State Grouper Troopers" didn'tcha?

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Five screws and 3-1/2 inches.

I had a lot of respect for the local game wardens for the most part. Even gave them some help from time to time Then they made them law enforcement officers(and armed them) and they got a lot of wanna be's...some were even stopping speeding cars though it wasn't in the scope of their duties. I was related to one or two in some way too. But hell, I was related to half the people that lived on the Eastern shores of Md, Va and quite a few in Delaware too. This is also a true story...We were being checked by a local GW one day. Hunting geese and we needed one bird for a limit.. Well we had a single come off the farm next door and just kinda drifted right to us.. GW got behind the blind and I told the one fellow that was (hopefully) gonna shoot the goose that if that bird came in and he missed it I was gonna let my cousin(the GW) behind the blind cite him for harassing game birds. Just before I told him to shoot ol cuz said from behind us...who shot this duck back here. Say what!! Well the guy didn't miss..Duck season wasn't in but the duck had been there for a long time. I thunk I had a LOT of, as Ricky said to Lucy, Splainin to do. So the laugh ended up to be on me..GW and my party laughed pretty hard at me.... He wasn't really related to me other than being married to my 2nd cousin... The gene pool was kinda shallow on the shore back then. Like a damp spot on the side of a hill out in a corn field

........... to learn about an unusual day for an Arkansas Game & Fish Wildlife Officer.



and if you have never seen any of the videos of the West Memphis shootings there are several online.

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LEX ET ORDO

Round here we call them “The green team”. They have green uniforms as opposed to the blue of the regular state line troopers.