He quietly returned to the patrol truck that was parked behind a screen of brush. His partner returned also. He had also seen the geese and no deer. Nearby residents were likely making their coffee right now, he thought. Maybe, maybe not.
Conservation officers do, and as a whole they are a very conservative lot.
They do not suffer fools and bunglers gladly. I am one of them, a CO, but perhaps I am also one of those fools. You might wonder once in a while who is calling the shots in protecting your resources. Well, lately there have been more changes in the provincial government. The Natural Resources Service of Alberta Environment, the employer of conservation officers, was a major casualty of this re-structure.