Montana Fish and Game Department one can compare the change in 

 classification of employees in the past 50 years. 



In 1901 a staff of 6 to 8 comprised the department's personnel. 

 Today 160 to 200 employees are required to perform the multiple 

 services given by a modern department of conservation. 



Essentially the Fish and Game Department is a field organization, 

 and the major portion of its personnel devote full time to field activities 

 Five district warden supervisors and 45 game wardens are assigned 

 the manifold jobs of the modern game law enforcement officer. 



Twenty-two biologists work on problems of game management in 

 big game, upland game birds, waterfowl and fur bearers. An additional 

 ten direct research toward solving the problems of the fisheries divi- 

 sion. 



Special service personnel include a lawyer, engineer, shop special- 

 ists, photographic technician, warehousemen, acountants, information 

 and education staff, , stenographers and clerical assistants. 



Today the Fish and Game Department represents nearly a two 

 million-dollar plant and it administers a vital hunting and fishing 

 business that brings into Montana an estimated $25,000,000 annually. 

 Progress is obvious in this past biennium as well as in the past five 



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