A conversation with the chief

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I was there in 1962 when Missouri Conservation Commission (not Missouri Department of Conservation back then) biologists and game wardens were working with hunters and landowners to stock wild turkeys on their land. I was 14 years old, witnessed some of it and couldn't wait to become a game warden like my old friend Bland Wilson. Today these people landowners and hunters are victims, targets for what they call 'conservation agents'.


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