GAME WARDEN SAFETY: Men and women who risk their 
lives to protect natural resources ... details on Passport to 
Texas.
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Passport to Texas from Texas Parks and Wildlife

Approximately 500 Game Wardens dedicate themselves to 
protecting our state's natural resources every day. While 
most of the people Game Wardens come in contact with 
are harmless, Assistant Chief of Fisheries Enforcement, 
Kris Bishop, says that's not always the case. 

In general, the people that we come in contact with are good, 
family people. They're taking their family, their children out 
hunting, and fishing, and boating. That's how they want to spend 
their free time. The kind of person who goes out and communes 
with nature is usually a good person and they have good 
intentions, and so that's the average person that we meet. 

But occasionally, you are going to meet the criminal element no 
matter where you are. It's going to be anywhere. You'll always 
have that certain amount of danger out there because most of the 
people that we're dealing with have knives, guns, things like that, 
on them. That's part of what they're doing. They're either 
fishing they they'll have a filet knife, or they're hunting and have 
a rifle or a shotgun. There's always that little bit of an element of 
you could possibly get into a situation with a bad person. :46 
 
Wardens receive extensive training on handling 
dangerous situations. Find more information about game 
wardens, including how you can become one, at the Texas 
Parks and Wildlife website. 

That's our show for today ... with research and writing 
help from Loren Seeger...For Texas Parks and Wildlife ... I'm 
Cecilia Nasti