My point in all of this is that biologists in the DCNR are not primarily biologists. They are game warden/biologists.


The job announcements for game wardens are separate from the game warden/biologist announcements:

Game Warden job announcement:

CONSERVATION ENFORCEMENT OFFICER – 70801
GENERAL OPTION – 003


Kelley v White *** click here ***




Game Warden/Biologist job announcement for DCNR:

CONSERVATION ENFORCEMENT OFFICER – 70801
WILDLIFE BIOLOGIST OPTION – 461


http://personnel.state.al.us/Documents/Announcements/100419_A.pdf


Assignment of the enforcement duties to the Department of Public Safety makes sense. The Department of Conservation should be focused on conservation, not law enforcement.

Wildlife Biologists should be allowed to work in their primary field of training in order to ensure the conservation of our various species of wildlife.

Enforcement officers should take care of law enforcement and wildlife biologists should be allowed to take care of wildlife conservation.



This court case shed's some light on how they are mixed:

Kelley v White *** click here ***