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A typical day

There is no standard shift. In deer season you start before dawn, checking hunters, tags and licenses, and you may not stop until well after dark chasing a spotlighting complaint. In summer it flips to boats: safety checks, drunk boaters, a search for a missing swimmer. In between there is paperwork, court appearances, school talks, nuisance bear calls and landowner disputes. You plan a day and dispatch rewrites it. Much of the time you are completely alone, which is either the best part of the job or the reason people leave it.