98 Bob Vashaw (Ret.) – New Hampshire

Before dive teams, rescues using locator beacons, and OHRV and snowmobile enforcement, the job of a New Hampshire game warden was very different than it is today. Often left very much to their own devices, officers were primarily responsible for observing and reporting local conditions and activities, protecting and managing wildlife, and of course, stopping poachers. Join us for a walk through history with retired New Hampshire CO Bob Vashaw!

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Here’s what we discuss:

  • Stories of game wardens past
  • Began working in 1965
  • Grinding mussels on the seacoast
  • Search & Rescue before cell phones
  • A game warden is shot
  • Teaching hunter safety courses
  • A shot through the window
  • Backpacking into the wilderness to stock ponds
  • The snow revolution
  • Fish & Game duties have evolved
  • “We were one big family”
  • Loose dogs were a huge problem
  • Cutting cedar trees for deer feed
  • A daily diary
  • No overtime pay
  • Joining the first state dive team
  • Looking through a memory book
  • “I would do it again in a heartbeat.”

Credits

Hosts: Wayne Saunders and John Nores

Producer: Jay Ammann

Art & Design: Ashley Hannett

Research / Content Coordinator: Stacey DesRoches

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