CONSERVATION OFFICER
Brock Mahaffy
Nature of work
- What duties and tasks do you perform?
-To enforce hunting and fishing laws and regulations.
-To make sure that hunters and fishers know the regulations , and that they obey them.
-I will also have to investigate complaints and hunting accidents.
-Another task and or duty of my job is to see if hunting and fishing are valid.
- Where do you work? What conditions?
-I work indoors and outdoors.
-My office can be a tent.
-Some places I won't have an office.
-I mostly work outdoors and sometimes in urban neighborhoods.
-I will spend most of my time outdoors in all kinds of weather.
-Most conservation officers live in rural areas, and in some cases, very remote areas.
-For short periods, I may have to live in tents and cook by campfire.
Abilities needed
- To be committed to wildlife and the environment.
- Communication skills
- able to work independently
- phycal fit
School subjects that are important
- english
- math
- biology
- chemistry
- earth and environmental science
- economics
- geography
- law and government
- health and physical education
the best and worst parts of my job
- I get to protect wildlife
- I get to be outdoors
- worst patr
- dealing with poachers
- having to deal with hunting accidents
my values that match this creer
- working outdoors
- training or teaching
- improving or managing the environment
this job pays
- between $31,000 to $81,000 a year
- if I am at the highest rank i will earn $85,000 a year
- average yearly pay is $50,000 per year
How much I will earn in Michigan
- between $31,000 to $81,000 a year