Fish and Game Warden
"Attention getter for your career" Kyle Lackowski hour 2
Basic information about your career
- Enforce hunting and fishing laws
- Work outdoors most of the time
- Have an office for paperwork
- Can be dangerous
- Make arrests
- Serve warrants
- Collect evidence to use against violators of hunting and fishing laws
- Must be at least 21 to apply
- Need a valid drivers license
- Tested annually for firearm safety
Pros and cons of this career
Pros
- Keep people from over fishing or hunting illeggaly
- Work outdoors
- Enforce hunting and fishing laws
- Work in the rain/snow
- Work in the cold
What do you need to do to succeed in this career?
- Graduate high school
- Get a bachelors degree
- Need a drivers liscence
- No felonys
- Go through firearms safety training
What colleges can you attend to earn a degree for this career?
University of Wisconsin Madison
They offer a natural resources managment course
$17,273 per year
University of Wisconsin Stevens Point
They offer a natural resource managment course
$12,836 per year
http://www.uwsp.edu/Pages/default.aspx
Arkansas State University
They offer a natural resource managment course
$12,580 per year
Associations/Professional organization for this career
Wisconsin department of natural resources
1-888-936-7463
101 S. Webster Street
South Carolina department of natural resources
1000 Assembly Street, Columbia South Carolina
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