Your 2005 WCO of the year!

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SkyLine pretty much hits the nail on the head. The focus of Conservation LE needs to be on developing a relationship with your patrol area's community that fosters cooperation. Give a break when you can and it will come back as info or help on a real conservation violation.
CO's need to work as hard to educate as they do to write tickets.

Sad to say it but things are really changing here in Maryland. It seems that incident numbers, warnings, patrol of state parks and a numbers game with tickets are taking precedence over conservation. Poor leadership is the problem here, ex-State Police and Park rangers who have no background in Game Warden/Marine Police work are running the outfit and trying to make it work like any other police agency...WHICH IT IS NOT!