| Statement of Purpose:
"It is recognized that law enforcement is an integral component of wildlife management. As such, the Western Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies (WAFWA) Law Enforcement Committee is established to provide a forum for wildlife law enforcement professionals from member agencies to.
- Encourage and promote law enforcement cooperation and consistency
- Encourage and develop efficient and innovative law enforcement practices
- Promote wildlife or resource law enforcement training and education programs for officers
- Provide a forum for the collection and dissemination of information relating to changes in relevant law(s)
- Review and provide comment to proposed and enacted relevant legislative changes
- Encourage the highest possible ethics, standards and practices for wildlife or resource related law enforcement
- Encourage the most courteous, impartial and efficient law enforcement services to the public; and
- Properly staff assignments from, and convey recommendations and advice to, the WAFWA directors relating to wildlife and resource law enforcement issues".
Committee Chair Duties
- Solicit and determine items for committee meeting agenda (May).
- Provide Secretary with final agenda (June).
- Chair the committee meeting, direct discussion (July).
- Arrange to have someone take minutes of the committee meeting (July).
- Arrange to have host state/province office staff type up the minutes after the committee meeting and prior to the business meeting (1-2 days).
- Present an oral committee report at the annual business meeting (July).
- Turn in typed committee report to the Secretary at the annual business meeting for attachment to the minutes.
- Complete committee action items identified at the annual meeting (on going).
- Report at the mid-winter meeting, if requested by the directors (January).
- Serve as the Director Sponsor for the Western Native Trout Initiative (WNTI).
- Serve as a member and attend meetings of the WNTI Management Committee which operates under the auspices of the Inland and Marine Fisheries Committee.
Reports:
Chair - Richard Hatcher
Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation
1801 N. Lincoln
P.O. Box 53465
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73105
Phone: 405-521-4660
Fax: 405-521-6505
E-mail: rhatcher@odwc.state.ok.us |
Vice-Chair - Tod Stevenson
New Mexico Department of Game & Fish
PO Box 25112
#1 Wildlife Way
Santa Fe, New Mexico 87504
Phone: 505-476-8008
Fax: 505-476-8124
E-mail: tod.stevenson@state.nm.us |
Members:
Deryl Empson, (AB): deryl.empson@gov.ab.ca
Al Cain, (AK): al.cain@alaska.gov
Gene Elms, (AZ): gelms@azgfd.gov
Nancy Foley, (CA): nfoley@dfg.ca.gov
Jay Sarason, (CO): jay.sarason@state.co.us
Gary Moniz, (HI): gary.d.moniz@hawaii.gov
Jon Heggen, (ID): jheggen@idfg.idaho.gov
Kevin Jones, (KS): kevinj@wp.state.ks.us
Jim Kropp, (MT): jkropp@mt.gov
Ted Blume, (NE): tblume@nebraska.gov
Robert Timian, (ND): rtimian@state.nd.us
Dan Brooks, (NM): dbrooks@state.nm.us
Rob Buonamici, (NV): rbuonamici@ndow.org
Larry Manering, (OK): lmanering@odwc.state.ok.us
Emmett Keyser, (SD): emmett.keyser@state.sd.us
Andy Alban, (SD): andy.alban@state.sd.us
Peter Flores, (TX): peter.flores@tpwd.state.tx.us
Mike Fowlks, (UT): mikefowlks@utah.gov
Bruce Bjork, (WA): bjorkbb@dfw.wa.gov
Mike Cenci, (WA): mike.cenci@dfw.wa.gov
Jay Lawson, (WY): jay.lawson@wgf.state.wy.us
Scott Talbott, (WY): scott.talbott@wgf.state.wy.us
John Russell, (YK): john.russell@gov.yk.ca
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