4/21/1977 CONSERVATION COMMISSION Minutes

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65 miles and that's quite a lot of distance to cover, Someone asked �f his Job required that he take college courses and he said that all that 'was required was a Civil Service Exam. There are college courses you can take, but your qualifications are just your exam, and certain e -perience. He said that it's important to geta good score on the ex bq• he was told that he was over. age for the job and he got ruling-from theAttor- ney General's Office and gat a top scone on the test. They combine the writ- ten exam with your experience. He was aeputir natural Rdsou ~ccs Offiver lot of his experience did not count; they have ;at a sets standard. he could have been a game garden in another state for 20 yeas and that wo ld- n't have counted toward a thing. Mr. Buckingham, asked if he was a field roan. 14r. Studley said that it' a ,job that you -constantly learn on - he attended session on search warrants and search and seizure - these things ;you don't .get in' college unless you're toing to be a lawyer. , Mrs. DeLory mentioned the correspondence course at north ��;ri an School ----"..of onser ration and lir. Studley said that this is not accepted by Civil Ser- vice as eprience. Ron said that it is a goad course and if you pass it., you should be able to get a job, Mr. Studley mentioned that, he m'E h t have moved to Pennsylvania if he could have gone to the Ross Leffler School -of Conservation. He was aksed if i,teras a federally f:end d program and he replied that it was state funded., He also said thatenn fiv ni derives :rior 'money from olicenses - Pennsylvania � yes than any state in the ni on. nkills over 25,000 deer on the highways every year. and it is a grew conservation state. Mr. Studley said that BoiLrne has 5 f l ltiirie Natural Resources Officers, plus a f ul ltime secretary and director. They do a lot of work - they have more coast line and concentrate more on zbe?l ish and .fi hi g. He was asked what happens around Cha ,ham and Orleans, do the; have anything on shell-fish- ing or any fishing prog-rams. Does this come under his epartr. nt? Yes - there 's a warden now living in Orleans. Someone asked how one man covers all that and Mr. Studley said ;you just do the best you can. he ?,!so said, that no state in- the union has enough off ice -parently Pennsylvania has a. lot of deputies and this does wonders for their law enforcement program. T,7e have got about 6C) officers now, 50 wanking in the field and they probe bl had that :pany 50 years ago. He said that #ro 've got hundreds of more l w s to enforce and thousands f people to look after. Hie was asked how he ties in with the local oeop le and he said that they take a lot off of his department. You have got to rely on the locals to help you out and you alwa: s ,try to be on very good terms with the town people., because you're � � -'working - p , re go�r�� to reed thea end they're going to geed you. Mr. Buckingham remarked that Er. tudl ey's responsibilities are primarily law enforcement - hovr much tune does he spend on cr•eati on o areas. 1said that the majority of their work is !a:,r enf orcenent, but this stockingjob he did todayi norrial not one o = � y e h�.�_ ,,o'�s, bow get down there., lie did this as avor and it also gave him the opportunity to look around. We don't do very much as far as conservation per se as a shellfish warden would do as far as seeding, 'etc. He writes a daily report and it is sent in weekly for each h-day- tour of Duty. ire includes arilything out of M-ie ordinary in his report and makes a spe- cial activities report. He also has a memo book rhich he alln-ays hans with him and he writes down what he is going to do the next clay and if he sets out of