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Article: User-friendly warden force has odd ring
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- March 29, 1998
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Like a giggle of White House interns, Wisconsin conservation
wardens have been in the news a lot this spring.
It started back in February with a startling announcement that
the warden force was understaffed to the point where it could no
longer carry out its responsibilities.
Gov. Tommy G. Thompson pounced on that like a coyote all over
fresh meat. He, properly, devised a plan that, we are told, will
add 18 wardens to the staff yearly until it is up to standard.
Then, in mid-March, a story broke on these pages that the warden
force was embarking on a program designed to make popple cops
"user-friendly."
Tom Harelson, the state's chief conservation officer, said this:
"What we're trying to ...