{"id":3690,"date":"2024-09-17T07:45:29","date_gmt":"2024-09-17T12:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atomiccoffee.com\/WWA\/?p=3690"},"modified":"2024-09-17T07:45:29","modified_gmt":"2024-09-17T12:45:29","slug":"state-flyway-views-from-the-field-beyond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atomiccoffee.com\/WWA\/state-flyway-views-from-the-field-beyond\/","title":{"rendered":"State & Flyway: Views From the Field & Beyond"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Lt.<\/a>By Lt. Tyler Strelow, <\/strong>Supervisor of the DNR\u2019s Mississippi River Warden Team<\/strong><\/p>\n

As a \u201cwaterfowl cop\u201d I often get asked by hunters: \u201cIs everybody behaving themselves today?\u201d<\/p>\n

Most often, the answer to that question is: \u201cYes!\u201d<\/p>\n

Hunters and other outdoor users generally are law-abiding folks. However, the DNR conservation wardens also deal with that small percentage of folks who are not like the other 98%.<\/p>\n

What do these few do? Usually, the wrong choices are made, include hunting with an unplugged firearm, hunting during the closed season or outside of legal shooting hours, hunting without a license\/stamp and\/or hunting with toxic shot.<\/p>\n

MISSISSIPPI FLYWAY<\/strong><\/p>\n

Activities and actions also are tracked at the Mississippi Flyway level \u2013 which includes 14 states. The Mississippi Flyway is unique in the fact that we are the only flyway that has a law enforcement (LE) technical section. The LE tech section is used as a sounding board for the biologists, recognizes natural resource officers for their outstanding work with an annual award, and tracks\/ monitors activities and actions across the flyway.<\/p>\n

\"Warden<\/a>LEADING THE NEXT GENERATION<\/strong><\/p>\n

Speaking of outstanding work, we also do education to help bring up the next generation of waterfowl enthusiasts. One excellent example of this dedication to waterfowl education is Warden Brad Peterson<\/strong>, who keeps an eye on the Mississippi River from his Pierce County base. Last year, Warden Brad worked with Delta Waterfowl to help their members work with students who were building about 60 wood duck boxes.<\/p>\n

He didn\u2019t stop with the building of those boxes. After the students were finished, Warden Brad stayed with the project and helped teach the class about how and where to place their boxes.<\/p>\n

So, at the end of the day, the view of a \u2018waterfowl cop\u2019 can be on the water with many law-abiding folks, with the Mississippi Flyway group looking at regional topics or in a classroom with the next generation.<\/p>\n

Never boring!<\/p>\n

If you have information regarding natural resource violations, you may confidentially report by calling or texting:<\/em> VIOLATION HOTLINE: 1-800-TIP-WDNR or 1-800-847-9367.<\/strong> The hotline is in operation<\/em> 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.<\/strong> Trained staff relay reported information to conservation wardens.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Lt. Tyler Strelow, Supervisor of the DNR\u2019s Mississippi River Warden Team As a \u201cwaterfowl cop\u201d I often get asked by hunters: \u201cIs everybody behaving themselves today?\u201d Most often, the answer to that question is: \u201cYes!\u201d Hunters and other outdoor users generally are law-abiding folks. However, the DNR conservation wardens also deal with that small…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3693,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-words-from-the-wardens"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atomiccoffee.com\/WWA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atomiccoffee.com\/WWA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atomiccoffee.com\/WWA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atomiccoffee.com\/WWA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atomiccoffee.com\/WWA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3690"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/atomiccoffee.com\/WWA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3694,"href":"https:\/\/atomiccoffee.com\/WWA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3690\/revisions\/3694"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atomiccoffee.com\/WWA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atomiccoffee.com\/WWA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atomiccoffee.com\/WWA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atomiccoffee.com\/WWA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}