Game Wardens attend the same academy as DPS (Highway Patrol) as part of the GW academy. The GW academy is actually longer than it takes to become a DPS officer. GW's have to learn all the same penal codes plus all the wildlife codes. GW's here are state police officers just like highway patrol, they do have assigned counties but their jurisdiction is everything inside state lines (except FED lands).
Did I get all that right Pat?
In Colorado, I met a Hunter Safety Instructor that had to teach a class for the Rookie D.O.W. Officers. It's not real encouraging to think that some of the people that are out there to enforce hunting regulations haven't hunted. It's possible that some had to take it in Colorado because where they came from didn't require it, but isn't that somewhat rare these days?
