Game wardens assist other personnel in gathering 

 information regarding big game populations and 

 their wintering areas. Information concerning nesting 

 areas, brood populations of game birds, and general 

 range conditions is also gathered by the wardens. 



Increased Hunting and Fishing 

 Pressure 



On a nation-wide average, the number of anglers 

 and hunters have increased at a faster rate over the 

 past five years than has the population of the United 

 States. Our total population increased eleven per 

 cent in the past five years, while hunters and fisher- 

 men increased twenty-four and twenty-two per cent 

 respectively. Women and children are more active 

 in outdoor sports. Lady hunters have increased 106 

 per cent. 



Examples of tremendous increases in the use of 

 our wildlife resources can be found in the Great 

 Falls-Lewistown area where the Minuteman Missile 

 program has been underway for nearly two years. 

 Airmen and their families, moving into the Glasgow 

 Air Base, have nearly doubled the population and 

 hunting and boating has skyrocketed in this north- 

 eastern community. The construction of Yellowtail 

 Dam in the Hardin area has brought additional 

 workers and their families into that area. 



Paralleling the increase in license sales and 

 number of sportsmen and women who hunt and fish 

 or use the recreational resources of this state, is the 

 advancement of equipment and methods of taking 

 game and fish. 



Four-wheel-drive vehicles, outboard motors, trailer 

 houses, campers, high velocity rifles, telescope 

 sights, binoculars, spinning rods and reels, etc. have 

 made the hunter and fisherman more effective. A 

 shorter working week with more leisure time, better 

 roads and highways and means of transportation 

 have put sportsmen into the field more than ever 

 before. 



Organization 



In order to cope with this added workload, it has 

 been necessary for the Fish and Game Department 

 to modernize its organization and strive for increased 

 efficiency. Twenty years ago, 34 Deputy Game 

 Wardens made up the Law Enforcement Division of 

 the State Fish and Game Department. Now there are 



more than 50. Since the workload of the Enforcement 

 Division has increased many-fold, the Commission 

 found it necessary to appoint a Chief Enforcement 

 Officer with headquarters in the state office. 



The state has been divided into seven supervisory 

 districts with a district supervisor in charge of en- 

 forcement personnel. A district headquorter's build- 

 ing is located in each supervisory district to provide 

 office space and store equipment. The first head- 

 quarter's building was constructed at Bozeman in 

 District 3 and buildings are now owned at Kalispell, 

 Missoula, Great Falls, Billings, Glasgow and Miles 

 City. 



Supervision and Training 



The Chief of Enforcement is responsible for opera- 

 tion of the enforcement division and the coordination 

 of its activities with other divisions within the depart- 

 ment. 



The District Warden Supervisors direct the en- 

 forcement program within their respective districts 

 by supervising the enforcement personnel and co- 

 ordinating their work with that of other divisions 

 within the district. 



The warden of yesterday appeared in various 

 types of garb. Today, he is neatly uniformed for 

 either summer or winter duty. He is more easily 

 recognized, thus better able to serve the public. 



Several of the enforcement personnel have col- 

 lege degrees in wildlife management. This is an 

 asset to their work; however, frequent in-service 

 training programs are necessary for all personnel. 

 In 1941 the first in-service training sessions were 

 initiated to better train personnel in various fields of 

 wildlife management. Since then training sessions 

 have been held at the State College, the State Uni- 

 versity and various institutions. All wardens and 

 supervisors are trained in Red Cross first aid and 

 several are instructors. Several wardens and super- 

 visors have also been trained in radiological moni- 

 toring and serve as instructors in cooperation with 

 civil defense authorities. 



District Warden Supervisors help set up and in- 

 struct in these training programs with special atten- 

 tion being given to the newer wardens. New wardens 

 are indoctrinated and trained at district headquarters 

 under direct supervision of the supervisor and work 

 with older wardens until they are adequately trained 

 to manage a district. 



District meetings are called monthly to dissemi- 



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