Game And Fish Facing ‘Dire’ Financial Trouble, Interim Director Tells Lawmakers

 

Game And Fish Facing ‘Dire’ Financial Trouble, Interim Director Tells Lawmakers

After abrupt move to governor’s office, former Wyoming Game and Fish boss moves on to private lands nonprofit

 

After abrupt move to governor’s office, former Wyoming Game and Fish boss moves on to private lands nonprofit

Director Angi Bruce’s departure from Wyoming Game and Fish was likely involuntary, records suggest

 

Director Angi Bruce’s departure from Wyoming Game and Fish was likely involuntary, records suggest

At Monday Press Conference, Game And Fish Refuses To Discuss Director's Departure

After Director Quits, People Asking What’s Up With Wyoming Game And Fish?

 

After Director Quits, People Asking What’s Up With Wyoming Game And Fish?

Angi Bruce's Resignation As Game and Fish Director Catches Sportsmen By Surprise

 A good article getting at some of the things that I've wondered about:

Angi Bruce's Resignation As Game and Fish Director Catches Sportsmen By Surprise

This article notes the influx of out of staters into the Game and Fish.  I've really noticed it.  This has been going on before Bruce was installed, but her installation really emphasized it, and it's not a good thing at all.

We've noted that here before.  

We used to really think highly of the Wyoming Game & Fish Department, but it's really dimmed over the years.  I still do, but it's not what it once was.  I've noted that a bit here:

Indeed, I was recently stopped by a warden and frankly he wasn't very nice.  That's a new trend as well.  I don't like it.  But not only was he not nice, he was extremely intimidating carrying a government issued handgun on a government issued gunbelt and wearing a government issued flak jacket.  

I've really hated the militarization of the policy and this is all part of it. Everytime I see a policeman anymore, including a game warden, they're dressed like they're going into Hue in 1968.  All policemen of every type are civilians.  They're simply deputized civilians.  They shouldn't look like an occupying army.  And if the treat people rudely, and many do, and are standing their armed treating you like you are a detained Vietnamese villager, it's scary.

I've mentioned such encounters a number of times  on this blog. The first time was when I went to great efforts to Jeep into an area all while on public land.  I'd done it before, and received a compliment from the warden then serving that area.  On this latter occasion, which was only about a year or two later, the warden basically flat out called me a liar and followed me out in his pickup truck, which he was lucky not to roll.  He apologized.  He was from California. The year after that, I did the same and was outright harassed in a very hostile manner by a different game warden.  It was so bad I called to complain about it.  I received an apology from the District Warden on that occasion.  This past year I had the encounter above, which was scary to a degree.

On that one, it had a bit of a happy, sort of, ending.  I called to complain but couldn't get in touch with anyone.  Somebody I knew, however, who has a different sort of relationship with the Game & Fish called and it had a huge reaction from the warden himself, who is now my best buddy in the field when I encounter him.  

He, at least, is from Colorado.

Anyhow, every time I look up a new warden, they're from somewhere else, and in the case of the Director, she was.

I didn't follow her service much.  I do know, however, a man and his son in which the son had a live desire to be a Game Warden.  He pursued it in college.  He didn't get on.  It's very difficult to get on, but he attributed it to a sort of agenda.  I don't know if it's really the case that the agenda exists or not, but I sure liked the wardens better when they were mostly locals.

I don't want an out of state head of the Game and Fish.

Related threads:

New Wyoming Game and Fish Director.

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Angi Bruce resigns suddenly as head of Wyoming Game and Fish Department

 

Angi Bruce resigns suddenly as head of Wyoming Game and Fish Department

I'd normally say good riddance, as I thought her a very poor choice for this position in the first place, but I'm not sure what the back story is.  She's actually taking a newly created position as director of special policy initiatives", whatever that is.

Wyoming Game and Fish requests voluntary trout fishing pause on upper North Platte River

 

Wyoming Game and Fish requests voluntary trout fishing pause on upper North Platte River

‘Thoroughly disappointed,’ Wyoming Game and Fish urges reversal of Grand Targhee expansion approval

 

‘Thoroughly disappointed,’ Wyoming Game and Fish urges reversal of Grand Targhee expansion approval

Wyoming Game And Fish Commission Cuts Wolf Hunt Quotas By More Than Half

 

Wyoming Game And Fish Commission Cuts Wolf Hunt Quotas By More Than Half

Game and Fish Department relocates grizzly bear out of Sublette County

 

Game and Fish Department relocates grizzly bear out of Sublette County

 

Wanted dead or alive: The Teton Range’s few remaining mountain goats

Bear Aware Reminders

 

 

When Urban Turkeys Attack: Like Those In Casper, Wild Flocks Can Become Bullies

Wyoming Game and Fish Commission approves $21M fish hatchery expansion

 

Wyoming Game and Fish Commission approves $21M fish hatchery expansion

2026 Access Report.

 

 

Wyoming Game and Fish seeks $400,000 in property tax relief

The wildlife agency wants property tax relief amid cost-cutting as the department braces for a revenue decline due, in part, to fewer hunting licenses for rebounding mule deer and antelope herds.

A question of mission for Wyoming Game and Fish

A question of mission for Wyoming Game and Fish: Guest columnist Chris Madson asks: If the Wyoming Game and Fish Department doesn’t speak for the state’s wildlife, who does?

Wyoming ends in-person hunter safety requirement despite instructor concerns

Wyoming ends in-person hunter safety requirement despite instructor concerns: In split vote, Game and Fish commissioners decide to allow hunters over age 18 to earn certificates solely through online coursework — an option already available via out-of-state classes.

Carrying Capacity

Former Colorado wildlife boss Jeff Davis hired as Wyoming Game and Fish deputy director

Former Colorado wildlife boss Jeff Davis hired as Wyoming Game and Fish deputy director: State agency director resigned under pressure in November and weeks later signed on to replace recently retired Doug Brimeyer.

Apparently Wyomingites are qualified. 

Wyoming’s New Deputy Game And Fish Director Is Former Controversial Colorado Chief