Maine Warden Service<\/span><\/a>
\n<\/b>Established over 180 years ago, in 1880, the Maine Game Wardens are committed to protecting and preserving Maine\u2019s quality of life and outdoor activities.\u00a0 The service\u2019s first enforcement action occurred on March 12, 1880 when two men were apprehended for killing a doe in closed season.<\/p>\nTo become a Maine game warden it takes an extraordinary person with a wide variety of skills. The Warden Service hires only the very best men and women in society and they come to us from all walks of life from both Maine and from away. Training to be a Maine game warden is extremely extensive, with 30 weeks of academy training prior to entering the field.<\/p>\n
Maine game wardens oversee enforcement of all hunting, fishing, and trapping activity as well as all recreational vehicles. Game wardens also manage all search and rescue operations. The rescue skills of the Maine game wardens are recognized all over the country.<\/p>\n
Additionally, game wardens in Maine have general state law enforcement authority and have the training and authority to enforce motor vehicle laws, investigate domestic violence issues, and enforce all other state laws.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
During Sergeant Spahr’s visit to the TideSmart Talk with Stevoe studios in Falmouth the two talked about how Season 3 of “North Woods Law” is currently being filmed and what that experience has been like. They also touched on how “back in the day” to be a game warden all you had to do was be able to start a campfire and open a can of beans, and how now it takes much more than that. It takes someone with outdoor knowledge, strong charactrer and the confidence to handle unpredictable situations. Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1272"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}