Tag: game warden

Handsome conservation officer in his fifty years with short blond hair going silver, light stubble and pale blue eyes standing in his green uniform beside a patrol truck in the autumn forest of Michigan's Upper Peninsula at golden hour

I Caught a Poacher With a Trophy Buck in His Truck, Two Weeks Before Season. His Father Was a United States Senator, and He Told Me I’d Never Work Again

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I’ve been a conservation officer in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula for twenty-two years. I’ve arrested bear poachers, salmon snaggers and a man who tried to sell a wolf pelt online. None of them scared me. Then I pulled over a black pickup on a logging road at midnight and the driver handed me his father’s business card instead of his license.

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