ALBANY ‒ I recently spoke with Sgt. Quinn Fogle, a Game Warden with the Georgia Department of Natural Resources Law Enforcement Division, regarding the powers and duties Game Wardens have in meeting the division’s mission of conserving natural resources and protecting the people they serve.
The Georgia DNR is the oldest law enforcement organization in Georgia. In 1911, the state General Assembly passed legislation creating a unit of Game Wardens to enforce the early hunting and fishing regulations being drafted at that time to protect the state’s dwindling natural resources. The early wardens carried their own firearms, traveling on foot and by horseback as they patrolled the state’s woodlands and waterways. These early enforcement agents pinned on the “quail badge” that identified them in their official capacity 26 years before officers of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation or Georgia State Patrol would be issued their badges.
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