From Sunday September 21, 2014 through Wednesday September 24, 2014, the National Association of Conservation Law Enforcement Chiefs held a meeting in conjunction with the 104th meeting of the Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies in St. Louis, Missouri.
The following Conservation Law Enforcement Executives were in attendance:
Pat Fitts, Arkansas
Bob Thompson, Colorado
Heather Dugan, Colorado
Clavin Adams, Florida
Jack Daugherty, Florida
Kyle Overturf, Connecticut
Ron Cave, Florida
Eddie Henderson, Georgia
Kevin Jones, Kansas
Larry Yamnitz, Missouri
Jeff Clauson, Nebraska
Joel Wilkinson, Maine
Christopher Cloutier, Maine
Martin Garabedian, New Hampshire
Ben Byrd, New Mexico
Ken Fitz, Ohio
Dirk Cochran, Ohio
Chisolm Frampton, South Carolina
Alvin Taylor, South Carolina
Andy Alban, South Dakota
Craig Hunter, Texas
Danny Shaw, Texas
Tony Wood, Utah
Mike Cenci, Washington
Todd Schaller, Wisconsin
Brian Nesvik, Wyoming
David Deckard, Oklahoma
Mike England, Georgia
Topics discussed included:
· Development of a National Strategy for continuously adapting the institution of conservation law enforcement to new realties being created by changing social, technological, economic, and environmental conditions.
· The NACLEC Leadership Academy
· The Interstate Violator Compact
· Information sharing systems between states
· International Wildlife Trafficking
· Funding future conservation law enforcement efforts
Based on our discussions about the importance of creating a more inclusive and diverse conservation community in the future, we thought it appropriate to use the historically significant Old Courthouse in St. Louis as the backdrop. This was the Federal and State courthouse beginning back in 1839 and the site where an enslaved husband and wife, Dred and Harriet Scott, sued for their freedom in 1856 (the infamous Dred Scott Case) and where Virginia Minor sued for a woman’s right to vote in 1872. These are two examples where people courageously exercised leadership in pursuit of equal treatment for everyone on America.
NACLEC members attending the Association of Fish and Wildlife Agency meeting in St. Louis September 21-24, 2014.