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Got a really cool one today. Got a special guest, Mr. Michael Burns, Conservation Warden.

Mike, welcome. Hey, thanks. Happy to be here. I've also heard Game Warden Conservation Officer. Are those all satisfactory?

Yeah, for most people, that'd be a synonym. Conservation

Orden just speaks to the variety of things that we've done. But historically, game

ordens have done the hook and bullet, the fish and game things. And now, of course, with

demands of modern society, we've kind of expanded our portfolio to speak to conservation a little

bit more. But happy to respond to Gayne Warden, within the body of your work, have you ever been

called anything you consider unsatisfactory? Certainly. Most certainly. Yeah, absolutely. But

most people are absolutely great. And, you know, depending on who you're talking to,

we still very much go by game warden to the

general hook and pull it public.

For sure, for sure.

I think by and large, what we're going to talk about today is just, you know, your career,

how you got into becoming a game warden and maybe some cool stories you've had along the way.

And also, you know, maybe some ways a person who

if they're considering the profession might be able to uh pursue that oh absolutely happy to talk

about all those things for you like maybe you know some background on yourself on on your personal

hunting fishing career and then what what sparked you to that you're like oh man i think i think

this might be something

I want to do. Yeah. So I kind of always had a passion group in a family that had hunted and

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