Word: madison
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Madison has been stationed in Meeker since 1979, when he finished his wildlife division training in Denver. The country is truly beautiful-deep aspen and spruce forests, snowcapped mountains and rolling ranchland-and this partly makes up for the lack of friendship in town. So does the great variety of his work. One day he may be up before dawn to survey an elk herd by helicopter. The next day he and Duke may hike ten miles into the high country to stock a remote lake with trout. When Madison checks fishing licenses on a lake, Duke sleeps...
Hunting season keeps Madison on the run, working twelve hours a day and often at night. Acting on tips, Madison checks up on hunters who may have killed more than the annual limit of one deer and one elk; he is also on the alert for out-of-staters illegally using cheap resident hunting licenses. Once at a road check he arrested some men from Kansas after finding two illegal elk concealed behind a false wall in their camping trailer. Their fines totaled $2,400. They paid cash: 24 $100 bills...
...game for some hunters. They don't need the meat. They're just greedy or lucky," says Madison. "To manage the herd, we have to kill some of the animals. I know how happy I am when I'm hunting. And it pleases me to see someone have a good hunting experience. I don't want to get in the way any more than I have...
...Madison has never drawn his .357 magnum service revolver or needed the 12-gauge in the cab of his pickup. But it could happen any time. Once a fellow wildlife officer approached the cabin of two suspected poachers near Colorado Springs, and narrowly escaped a hail of bullets that set his pickup on fire...
...Madison is content with his life, in spite of its negatives. The pay-$26,000 a year-is not all that much, but it's enough to get by and he has just bought Nancy a microwave oven. This year he built a deck on the back of their home where they enjoy cool summer evenings. Besides, the alternatives seem unacceptable. Madison hates cities, and traffic makes him irritable. "I love the freedom," he says. "I think I've got the best job there...