OUTDOOR LIFE aug 2004
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minnesota, for example has 44 warden positions open and 30 of the 153 warden field stations are unmanned. with adequate manpower, wardens cover an average of 640 square miles, but some officers are now responsible for 2,000 to 3,000 square miles. "we try to fill in as best we can with officers from adjacent field stations" says major bill spence of DNR enforcement division " but sometime it is just physically impossible to do that"

in wisc nov 2002 each game warden had to take off two days during the the deer gun season, because money wasnt available for salaries or vehicle operations. with 20 warden vacancies now and 15 slated for retirement we will be even more short handed for the 2004 deer season says DNR chief warden Randy stark