First Week at Work!

I started work in Pincher Creek on the 15th; it was quite the week! First off I moved into my office where nothing is set up, no computer, no phone, nothing on my truck works and no place to sleep! When the week came to an end I had computer access but no computer, my cell phone working but no charge cord and had slept at 3 different places in everything from a plush hotel bed to a camp cot in the warehouse furnace room to a pile of mattresses in an old forestry bunkhouse in Coleman.


Sitting in my new office; I have a view of the mountains!


Out on patrol in the back country. I managed to check some hunters on my first day out too.


We ventured into Waterton National Park and came across a herd of about 300 elk.

All in all the week went by pretty fast. I made a trip to Cardston and seen one of my fellow recruits that was posted there, spent some time patrolling the back country with my supervisor, we couldn't see much due to the snow but it was beautiful country. I attended a meeting in Twin Butte along with our biologist to discuss bear issues with some of the local ranchers. While touring around I seen all those elk, a couple of mule deer bucks fighting, a herd of about 30 mule deer along one of the roads and a flock of several hundred Canada geese on the Oldman River. While in the office I registered a cougar that had electrocuted itself climbing a power pole, a wolverine that had been trapped as well as a couple of wolves. I think I'm going to love this job!