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Article: CONSERVATION LAW Thompson seeking more game wardens $1.2 million plan would add 18 to state agency
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- January 31, 1998
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Gov. Tommy Thompson will seek $1.2 million in general purpose
revenue to hire 18 new game wardens as a first step in solving a
critical staff shortage in the state's conservation law enforcement
agency.
Acting quickly to defuse a potentially explosive situation, the
governor directed the Department of Natural Resources to begin work
on the project immediately with the state Legislature and the
governor's office.
The chief executive was responding to growing public concern over
a report by DNR Secretary George Meyer and Tom Harelson, the state's
chief conservation officer, that the warden force was so understaffed
as to be unable to adequately handle its enforcement
responsibilities.
Meyer ...