{"id":1272,"date":"2013-05-20T18:54:15","date_gmt":"2013-05-20T18:54:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/?p=1272"},"modified":"2013-05-20T19:01:30","modified_gmt":"2013-05-20T19:01:30","slug":"sergeant-tim-spahr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/sergeant-tim-spahr\/","title":{"rendered":"Show 61: “North Woods Law”, Maine Game Warden Sergeant Tim Spahr"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Show Information<\/h5>\n

Show:<\/strong>\u00a061
\nAir date:<\/strong> Saturday, May 11
\nGuest:<\/strong>\u00a0Sergeant Tim Spahr
\nHost:<\/strong> Steve Woods (Stevoe)
\nStudio Contributor<\/strong> Debi Davis
\nExecutive Producer:<\/strong> Mark Gould (Sharky)
\nAssistant Producer:<\/strong> Shannon Maguire<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Sergeant Tim Spahr is originally from the Wilkes-Barre area of Pennsylvania.\u00a0 He grew up in a family of Polish-American coal miners.\u00a0 Stevoe and Sergeant Spahr discussed how when they were children, all they wanted to do when they got home from school was to go outside and play.\u00a0 That may have led Spahr to\u00a0join the Coast Guard right out of high school, where he served on a search and rescue station and then went to Coast Guard Marine Science School.<\/p>\n

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TideSmart Talk with Stevoe host Steve Woods welcomed Sergeant Tim Spahr, Maine Game Warden from Animal Planet’s “North Woods Law” to the studio.<\/p><\/div>\n

After leaving the Coast Guard, Spahr went to college in Bar Harbor, Maine earning a degree from College of the Atlantic.\u00a0 Before becoming a game warden in 1997, Spahr worked for the Department of Conservation.\u00a0 Sergeant Spahr covers Section 1 (which\u00a0emcompasses Portland and south to the New Hampshire border) out of 14 sections\u00a0in Maine.\u00a0 Spahr and the rest of the crew are currently filming Season 3 of North Woods Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Spahr lives with his wife Elizabeth in Kennebunk, where she is co-owner of \u201cVillage Yoga\u201d.\u00a0 Their 24 year old daughter lives in Seattle, Washington.<\/p>\n

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>\n

To 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}]}}