WDFW is looking for contracted range riders

[jackelope]

Hummmm, "Range Riders"??  What happened, lose all their "Wardens"??   If their biologist won't listen to the "field-men"(AKA Wardens) I don't think they are going to listen to anything a "range rider" will tell them!!  Its been going on for decades all ready!

Pretty sure a WDFW game warden and a range rider are 2 different roles....and we all already know there's a shortage of game wardens as it is.

[Ridgeratt]

You should put the new Honda to work Ridgeratt 

I might not be the best choice.     With WDFW current management ideas.

I like to follow the teachings of the great environmentalist.

[Iveexcaped3]

Sign me up!
I’m sure wdfw will supply the horse right?

Your forget the wdfw and state is ran by the left. This is the only horse you’ll be permitted and provided. As long as you stay on open green dot roads.

[HUNTIN4SIX]

They will be looking for very diverse candidates.  Probably the brokeback mountain types.

[fishngamereaper]

They probably should require the use of ebikes since horse's damage the eco systems.

[Skyvalhunter]

I would do it for free if SSS was involved.

[ctwiggs1]

I don't have time to register for WEBs but it seems like $26.25 isn't much to offer unless they are covering a mileage fee on equipment/horses. 

[rainshadow1]

What is the actual job description? Does anybody have a link or something? My son, Alex, is planning to go the Wildlife Biologist route, and is looking for summer and part time school year work in a related field. I just wondered if it'd be something he could fit into at some point. (I've been self-employed/private contracting my whole life, so it'd be easy to teach him that side of it.)

He's graduating HS, and doing the first half to 2/3 of this summer flying an RC plane to scare birds off organic blueberries! But he needs other leads...

[Ridgeratt]

https://conservationnw.org/our-work/wildlife/range-rider-pilot-project/?msclkid=6746978ed07511ecb4c2f5f8954ea984

Here is Conservation Northwest info.
The Northeast district you would have the pleasure of working for Jay Shepherd. Who just happens to be the head of their wolf program.

https://conservationnw.org/meet-our-staff/mitch-friedman/
https://conservationnw.org/meet-our-staff/jay-shepherd/

[Elkaholic daWg]

https://conservationnw.org/our-work/wildlife/range-rider-pilot-project/?msclkid=6746978ed07511ecb4c2f5f8954ea984

Here is Conservation Northwest info.
The Northeast district you would have the pleasure of working for Jay Shepard. Who just happens to be the head of their wolf program.

https://conservationnw.org/meet-our-staff/mitch-friedman/
https://conservationnw.org/meet-our-staff/jay-shepherd/

Precisely why I cut in half my  WDFW donations (H/F License tags SP) this year and you all might consider it too' That is your money they are spending on this chit! I'd do it W/O CNW involved

[highcountry_hunter]

What is the actual job description? Does anybody have a link or something? My son, Alex, is planning to go the Wildlife Biologist route, and is looking for summer and part time school year work in a related field. I just wondered if it'd be something he could fit into at some point. (I've been self-employed/private contracting my whole life, so it'd be easy to teach him that side of it.)

He's graduating HS, and doing the first half to 2/3 of this summer flying an RC plane to scare birds off organic blueberries! But he needs other leads...

I’ve got a few buddies that range ride for the cattlemens association. You’ve gotta have a horse, truck and trailer. From my understanding they give the riders a general area they want “patrolled.”  The riders document where they rode, hours and what they saw to get paid. But that’s for a private organization; since this is government related my guess is it will be a full of red tape, pay significantly less and be highly ineffective.

[KFhunter]

https://conservationnw.org/our-work/wildlife/range-rider-pilot-project/?msclkid=6746978ed07511ecb4c2f5f8954ea984

Here is Conservation Northwest info.
The Northeast district you would have the pleasure of working for Jay Shepard. Who just happens to be the head of their wolf program.

https://conservationnw.org/meet-our-staff/mitch-friedman/
https://conservationnw.org/meet-our-staff/jay-shepherd/

Precisely why I cut in half my  WDFW donations (H/F License tags SP) this year and you all might consider it too' That is your money they are spending on this chit! I'd do it W/O CNW involved

Ya, I haven't bought anything yet but I think I'll just get a bear tag, 2 if I get a bear.   Maybe fishing

Cutting out all my other tags and draws

[highcountry_hunter]

Also, $250 flat rate for an 8 hour day is ridiculous. First of all, you’ve gotta drive from town to where you’re going to unload your pony, saddle up then ride till you find some cows, ride around and check up on em, ride back to the trailer, load up and drive back home. The price of diesel for your pickup, hay for your horses, the tires you’re bound to blow driving around on forest service roads, not to mention the price of a good horse that isn’t going to dump you on your head and leave you stranded means this ain’t a profitable operation for the rider.

[Elkaholic daWg]

Well those CNW types would just tow their horses with their motor homes and screw up the area for weeks at a time That way the first day is covered

[timberfaller]

Hummmm, "Range Riders"??  What happened, lose all their "Wardens"??   If their biologist won't listen to the "field-men"(AKA Wardens) I don't think they are going to listen to anything a "range rider" will tell them!!  Its been going on for decades all ready!

Pretty sure a WDFW game warden and a range rider are 2 different roles....and we all already know there's a shortage of game wardens as it is.

I had a great discussion with a warden in the Methow years ago before he retired.  What he told me was his "experience" with the "biologist" then employed by WDFW.  They were not interested in the least with what any "LEO's" had to say!  The one person who see's the most out in the "field" is not allowed to have an opinion with "them"! Sight interferes with their college upbringing!  Their ego's are way to strong for them to admit they don't know half of what they think they know!!  This was from our talk about the three point or better screw up!  I can't post on here of what HIS solution was to the "problem" was, but it was a good one!

Yes "rolls" are different, but what one see's in my book(66 years and counting), trumps any "book learning".  Just like the years of massive doe hunts,  show me one cattleman who kills of his producer's to increase his herd!!   Reality beats book material no matter its author/author's.

Case in point, my best man at my wedding married a gal who's dad wrote a book on how to repair some of John Deere's heavy equipment.  Colleges paid him big money.  Yet the old school mechanic's had to "teach" the newbies to ignore what they had been taught in college.  Some of the "procedures" they had been taught were four hours longer then what in real life took to accomplish!   I came across almost the same thing when I was sent back to college.  A student ask the instructor, "Why are we using this book(expensive)for this class?" his answer was, "students, pick up your book, turn and look on its binding.  See those names?  Those are all Alumni of this college. That is why you are using this book, YOU will never use it once to leave here.  But you do need to know the basics.  You will find once you are employed, the basics are needed but this book is no longer used in the real world of business."   Oh well, glad the state paid for my book, felt sorry for those who had to buy it outright.  Rant over