1 00:00:00,200 --> 00:00:03,200 Speaker 1: Cincinnati hum of the Cincinnati Reads in the best Bengals coverage, 2 00:00:03,600 --> 00:00:08,240 Speaker 1: wasting no time, Captain Michael Stirwarth joins me. He is 3 00:00:08,360 --> 00:00:13,440 Speaker 1: a officer with the Ohio Department of Natural Resources and 4 00:00:13,560 --> 00:00:19,240 Speaker 1: specifically a natural resources officer. Michael, Welcome to the big outdoors. 5 00:00:19,280 --> 00:00:23,880 Speaker 1: Great to have you, Hi, Jeff, thank you for having me. Hey, great, 6 00:00:24,000 --> 00:00:28,120 Speaker 1: And of course you are stationed at East Fork State Park? 7 00:00:28,160 --> 00:00:32,080 Speaker 2: Am I correct? You are correct? Okay? And how long 8 00:00:32,120 --> 00:00:32,960 Speaker 2: have you been there now? 9 00:00:34,760 --> 00:00:38,159 Speaker 3: I'm going on my sixteenth year with Odeon R and 10 00:00:38,479 --> 00:00:40,680 Speaker 3: beginning my twentieth year in law enforcement. 11 00:00:40,720 --> 00:00:44,000 Speaker 2: Total, so you're you're not close to retirement yet. 12 00:00:44,040 --> 00:00:47,360 Speaker 3: I'm guessing right, I have about eight and a half 13 00:00:47,479 --> 00:00:52,080 Speaker 3: years left and you're counting him down, count him. 14 00:00:51,920 --> 00:00:55,040 Speaker 2: Down, but enjoying every minute of it. Cool, fantastic. 15 00:00:55,320 --> 00:01:01,760 Speaker 1: I had the pleasure of, I guess, rekindling our relationship 16 00:01:01,960 --> 00:01:05,760 Speaker 1: after many years at the Travel, Sports and Boat Show downtown. 17 00:01:05,840 --> 00:01:09,000 Speaker 1: I attended your open house at East Forks State Park 18 00:01:09,040 --> 00:01:15,479 Speaker 1: for aspiring individuals that wish to become a Natural resources officers. 19 00:01:15,720 --> 00:01:17,360 Speaker 2: I guess the first thing I'm gonna. 20 00:01:17,160 --> 00:01:19,080 Speaker 1: Throw out to you before we dig into this, and 21 00:01:19,120 --> 00:01:21,760 Speaker 1: by the way, it was a fantastic event for the 22 00:01:21,800 --> 00:01:25,240 Speaker 1: first for the first one if you guys pulled it off. 23 00:01:25,240 --> 00:01:31,160 Speaker 1: But Wildlife tells me you stole their idea. So but well, hey, 24 00:01:31,280 --> 00:01:35,640 Speaker 1: we'll get back to that in a moment. So what 25 00:01:35,800 --> 00:01:40,640 Speaker 1: is the difference between a natural resources officer and a 26 00:01:40,680 --> 00:01:42,280 Speaker 1: game warden here in Ohio? 27 00:01:42,560 --> 00:01:42,960 Speaker 2: All right? 28 00:01:43,480 --> 00:01:46,360 Speaker 3: So a game warden in a state of Ohio, they 29 00:01:46,560 --> 00:01:51,160 Speaker 3: enforced strictly the fish and game laws, and they're funded 30 00:01:51,600 --> 00:01:56,640 Speaker 3: to do solely that. The natural resources officer position, we 31 00:01:56,720 --> 00:02:00,880 Speaker 3: take care of all the criminal laws and on the waterways, 32 00:02:01,040 --> 00:02:04,840 Speaker 3: the state parks, the natural areas and for preserves in 33 00:02:04,920 --> 00:02:08,400 Speaker 3: our state forests. So all the same criminal walls that 34 00:02:08,720 --> 00:02:12,000 Speaker 3: a normal police department or sheriff's department would take care of, 35 00:02:12,680 --> 00:02:15,800 Speaker 3: and all you know, anything from a simple traffic ticket, 36 00:02:16,360 --> 00:02:21,480 Speaker 3: uh to a sexual assault to any times of firearm violations. 37 00:02:21,880 --> 00:02:24,440 Speaker 1: We take care of all that. So when did the 38 00:02:24,480 --> 00:02:27,880 Speaker 1: big I forget when the change occurred? Because watercraft was 39 00:02:27,919 --> 00:02:31,480 Speaker 1: a separate division under O d n R as uh, 40 00:02:31,639 --> 00:02:33,760 Speaker 1: you know, as we was parks, and of course parks 41 00:02:33,800 --> 00:02:36,280 Speaker 1: still is. But then there was the barriage of the 42 00:02:36,560 --> 00:02:42,080 Speaker 1: two departments, which I guess uh for lack of a 43 00:02:42,080 --> 00:02:47,359 Speaker 1: better description change, uh, moved your watercraft officers into that 44 00:02:47,360 --> 00:02:50,560 Speaker 1: that natural resources offer officer positions. 45 00:02:50,600 --> 00:02:51,840 Speaker 2: Did that happen as well? 46 00:02:53,280 --> 00:02:57,880 Speaker 3: So what happened was essentially we took our state forestry officers, 47 00:02:58,000 --> 00:03:02,080 Speaker 3: our Natural Areas Preserve officers, our state watercraft officers, and 48 00:03:02,160 --> 00:03:06,840 Speaker 3: the park rangers and right around that fifteen twenty sixteen 49 00:03:07,960 --> 00:03:12,040 Speaker 3: year range emerge those positions all into one. So now 50 00:03:12,160 --> 00:03:16,040 Speaker 3: within odn R we have two law enforcement agencies and 51 00:03:16,040 --> 00:03:20,359 Speaker 3: that's your Natural Resources officers and your wildlife officers aka 52 00:03:20,480 --> 00:03:21,760 Speaker 3: the game words. 53 00:03:21,800 --> 00:03:25,080 Speaker 1: Well to the reason we are here this morning is 54 00:03:25,080 --> 00:03:29,400 Speaker 1: that you know, my son attended your open house, which 55 00:03:29,520 --> 00:03:32,240 Speaker 1: was just that it was an open house which if 56 00:03:32,240 --> 00:03:35,880 Speaker 1: you had an interest in pursuing a career as a 57 00:03:35,880 --> 00:03:39,440 Speaker 1: as a DA's resources officer, that that was what this 58 00:03:39,720 --> 00:03:44,400 Speaker 1: was all about. And so he is in he's sixteen, 59 00:03:44,440 --> 00:03:46,480 Speaker 1: and I want to say, and he's at Grand Vocational 60 00:03:46,480 --> 00:03:49,720 Speaker 1: in criminology. So it was a it was an ideal 61 00:03:49,800 --> 00:03:53,840 Speaker 1: opportunity to see if the DNR is the place you 62 00:03:53,880 --> 00:03:57,760 Speaker 1: want to go, you know, when when you get to 63 00:03:57,800 --> 00:04:00,360 Speaker 1: that point you know in your life. And I've tout 64 00:04:00,400 --> 00:04:02,960 Speaker 1: you guys did a fantastic job and I want to 65 00:04:03,000 --> 00:04:06,400 Speaker 1: make sure that we promote the ones upcoming because that 66 00:04:06,520 --> 00:04:08,680 Speaker 1: was the first one. So you know you've got uh, 67 00:04:09,520 --> 00:04:12,720 Speaker 1: let's see, you got the twenty first. Today atsult for 68 00:04:14,200 --> 00:04:16,760 Speaker 1: Buck Guy Lake is the twenty second, and then right 69 00:04:16,800 --> 00:04:20,119 Speaker 1: on out through March fifth comes at Wingfoot Lake State 70 00:04:20,200 --> 00:04:23,400 Speaker 1: Park where these are taking place for those out there 71 00:04:23,440 --> 00:04:24,480 Speaker 1: explaining what happened. 72 00:04:26,040 --> 00:04:28,040 Speaker 2: But yeah, so what we have, what we have. 73 00:04:28,120 --> 00:04:30,679 Speaker 3: Going on is we had an open house just recently 74 00:04:30,680 --> 00:04:33,640 Speaker 3: at Eastfolk State Park and that was a chance for 75 00:04:33,760 --> 00:04:38,360 Speaker 3: folks that that are in high school, uh, in college 76 00:04:38,440 --> 00:04:40,880 Speaker 3: maybe looking at the criminal justice program. 77 00:04:40,880 --> 00:04:44,080 Speaker 2: We have a lot of folks that attend hockey that have. 78 00:04:44,080 --> 00:04:47,280 Speaker 3: Come a long way to attend, and it's for them 79 00:04:47,320 --> 00:04:49,000 Speaker 3: to get a chance to see what it is that 80 00:04:49,040 --> 00:04:54,000 Speaker 3: we actually do. Our officers, you know, are basically our 81 00:04:54,040 --> 00:04:58,440 Speaker 3: guys are self driven, you know, people oriented, service minded, 82 00:04:59,120 --> 00:05:03,520 Speaker 3: and Mike love the outdoors and it's it's kind of 83 00:05:03,520 --> 00:05:07,560 Speaker 3: a niche job to be out and you know in 84 00:05:07,680 --> 00:05:10,839 Speaker 3: the environment outside doing law enforcement. 85 00:05:10,920 --> 00:05:14,040 Speaker 4: We go ahead, go ahead, and I'm just gonna cut 86 00:05:14,080 --> 00:05:16,960 Speaker 4: you off, but I'll let you get Yeah, this is 87 00:05:17,000 --> 00:05:20,360 Speaker 4: an opportunity for people to get to meet the officers 88 00:05:20,720 --> 00:05:21,000 Speaker 4: kind of. 89 00:05:21,000 --> 00:05:22,040 Speaker 2: See some of the things we. 90 00:05:22,040 --> 00:05:25,480 Speaker 3: Do, maybe play with a little bit of equipment, see 91 00:05:25,480 --> 00:05:27,560 Speaker 3: the equipment that they would get a chance to operate 92 00:05:28,120 --> 00:05:30,560 Speaker 3: and ask questions at these open houses. 93 00:05:30,600 --> 00:05:32,800 Speaker 1: All right, Michael, you said tight, We got to hit 94 00:05:32,800 --> 00:05:37,800 Speaker 1: a short break. Captain Michael Stirworth with the Ohio Department 95 00:05:37,839 --> 00:05:41,640 Speaker 1: of Natural Resources as a natural Resources officer on The 96 00:05:41,640 --> 00:05:49,839 Speaker 1: Big Outdoors seven hundred WLW, Cincinnati. Hey, we're back the 97 00:05:49,839 --> 00:05:53,680 Speaker 1: Big Outdoors News Radio, seven hundred WLW, Cincinnati. Stick around. 98 00:05:53,680 --> 00:05:55,000 Speaker 1: It's gonna be a hell of a great day at 99 00:05:55,000 --> 00:05:58,320 Speaker 1: the Big One with Gary Jeff Walker coming up after 100 00:05:58,360 --> 00:06:00,239 Speaker 1: the news at the bottom of the hour. By the way, 101 00:06:00,240 --> 00:06:03,719 Speaker 1: it's his birthday to party the birthday party today at 102 00:06:03,839 --> 00:06:06,120 Speaker 1: uh at Huddles And are. 103 00:06:06,000 --> 00:06:08,960 Speaker 2: You going, Danny? Uh No, Unfortunately I'm stuck here. 104 00:06:09,040 --> 00:06:11,360 Speaker 1: You're working, all right, Okay, I'll go have a piece 105 00:06:11,360 --> 00:06:14,040 Speaker 1: of cake for you. Okay, I'm gonna go hang out 106 00:06:14,080 --> 00:06:17,239 Speaker 1: with Slanes, Mike and Radio Rick and the Green Hornet 107 00:06:17,240 --> 00:06:21,640 Speaker 1: and all those other nutbacks. Okay, yeah, he might be there. Okay, 108 00:06:21,800 --> 00:06:24,239 Speaker 1: he could be. I don't think he looks like he sounds, 109 00:06:24,600 --> 00:06:27,320 Speaker 1: but that's okay. Now here's a guy that looks like 110 00:06:27,360 --> 00:06:31,560 Speaker 1: he sounds Captain Michael Stirwarts with the Ohio Department and 111 00:06:31,680 --> 00:06:37,120 Speaker 1: Natural Resources, and uh, I'll let people figure that one out, Michael, 112 00:06:37,320 --> 00:06:42,680 Speaker 1: if if they if they, if they can, Okay, I 113 00:06:42,680 --> 00:06:45,400 Speaker 1: know you're about what six six okay? 114 00:06:45,960 --> 00:06:47,159 Speaker 3: Uh I with. 115 00:06:49,279 --> 00:06:52,919 Speaker 1: Twenty five pounds. It just looks like Schwartzenegger. 116 00:06:54,720 --> 00:06:58,120 Speaker 3: Back when back when I was about fifteen sixteen maybe there. 117 00:06:57,960 --> 00:07:00,440 Speaker 1: You go, well, hey, you know I want to get 118 00:07:00,640 --> 00:07:03,320 Speaker 1: get you on and get this, get this out there 119 00:07:03,520 --> 00:07:06,440 Speaker 1: to a greater degree because I thought the program which 120 00:07:06,520 --> 00:07:09,480 Speaker 1: lasted at East Wark about three hours, two and a 121 00:07:09,480 --> 00:07:12,400 Speaker 1: half hours, I guess, and you know, it was just 122 00:07:12,800 --> 00:07:16,320 Speaker 1: it was just such a personable approach and really not 123 00:07:16,400 --> 00:07:21,240 Speaker 1: a hard charging, you know, sales effort, and and you know, 124 00:07:21,520 --> 00:07:25,040 Speaker 1: I thought you got probably almost three dozen people there 125 00:07:25,080 --> 00:07:28,560 Speaker 1: by the time they all filtered in and sat down, and. 126 00:07:29,520 --> 00:07:32,280 Speaker 2: You know, probably pretty pretty big age. 127 00:07:32,080 --> 00:07:34,360 Speaker 1: Range, you know, up to maybe forty five, you know, 128 00:07:34,520 --> 00:07:39,800 Speaker 1: say eighteen to forty five. And so you know what 129 00:07:39,800 --> 00:07:43,400 Speaker 1: what you had what ten officers there. I believe they 130 00:07:43,440 --> 00:07:46,239 Speaker 1: came in from you know a lot of the other parks. 131 00:07:46,560 --> 00:07:48,760 Speaker 1: Now that will also take place at some of the 132 00:07:48,760 --> 00:07:53,800 Speaker 1: other UH sights I mentioned, And how could people best 133 00:07:54,680 --> 00:07:55,720 Speaker 1: find that list? 134 00:07:57,520 --> 00:08:00,480 Speaker 3: Yeah, So if you go to our our web site 135 00:08:00,560 --> 00:08:05,960 Speaker 3: at Ohio DNR dot gov, that will take you to 136 00:08:07,680 --> 00:08:10,200 Speaker 3: the Parks and Watercraft page and you can click on 137 00:08:10,240 --> 00:08:14,320 Speaker 3: the link for Recruitment and Hiring and that will give 138 00:08:14,360 --> 00:08:18,560 Speaker 3: you basically breakdown of where all the recruiting locations are 139 00:08:18,560 --> 00:08:21,679 Speaker 3: going to be. What it is are that the minimum 140 00:08:21,720 --> 00:08:25,720 Speaker 3: requirements to apply for the position is. It'll talk about 141 00:08:25,720 --> 00:08:30,360 Speaker 3: the compensation, the benefits. Uh. There's actually an awesome video 142 00:08:31,040 --> 00:08:34,120 Speaker 3: recruitment video that was put together by the department. It 143 00:08:34,160 --> 00:08:36,200 Speaker 3: takes about five minutes to watch it, but it kind 144 00:08:36,200 --> 00:08:39,120 Speaker 3: of covers a lot of the aspects that one may 145 00:08:39,160 --> 00:08:42,680 Speaker 3: expect to see, uh, that a natural resources officer would 146 00:08:42,679 --> 00:08:44,080 Speaker 3: do on a day to day basis. 147 00:08:44,960 --> 00:08:47,240 Speaker 1: Well, and I guess and you kind of touched on 148 00:08:47,320 --> 00:08:51,559 Speaker 1: it earlier, that you do your your your your core 149 00:08:51,679 --> 00:08:53,960 Speaker 1: if you will, you know, they they do the same 150 00:08:54,040 --> 00:08:57,240 Speaker 1: things that the sheriff does or you know a police 151 00:08:57,280 --> 00:09:02,360 Speaker 1: department police officer does with other departments. However, you have 152 00:09:02,520 --> 00:09:06,000 Speaker 1: this big benefit of being in the outdoors and and 153 00:09:06,200 --> 00:09:09,079 Speaker 1: you know in some some great parks or the opportunities 154 00:09:09,120 --> 00:09:10,400 Speaker 1: around around the state. 155 00:09:11,920 --> 00:09:15,280 Speaker 3: Right I've had it's been an awesome career so far. 156 00:09:15,360 --> 00:09:18,760 Speaker 3: I've had the opportunity to work in a lot of 157 00:09:18,760 --> 00:09:23,560 Speaker 3: our state forest I grew up within this career working 158 00:09:23,880 --> 00:09:27,319 Speaker 3: about nine years on the Ohio River in downtown Cincinnati 159 00:09:28,160 --> 00:09:31,880 Speaker 3: doing alcohol and drug enforcement on the waterways down there, 160 00:09:32,440 --> 00:09:35,199 Speaker 3: and then, you know, when we merged back in sixteen, 161 00:09:35,760 --> 00:09:38,880 Speaker 3: spent about three to four years actively working patrols in 162 00:09:38,920 --> 00:09:41,840 Speaker 3: our state parks, which was a bit of a change. 163 00:09:42,320 --> 00:09:45,000 Speaker 3: But you know, when what you know, you grow with 164 00:09:45,040 --> 00:09:48,000 Speaker 3: the changes and and take a you know, it's kind 165 00:09:48,000 --> 00:09:52,160 Speaker 3: of a kind of a challenge. I took upon myself 166 00:09:52,160 --> 00:09:54,199 Speaker 3: to learn the different parts of that job. 167 00:09:54,800 --> 00:09:56,360 Speaker 2: Uh, and it was fun. 168 00:09:56,360 --> 00:09:58,440 Speaker 3: I mean some days I would I would come to 169 00:09:58,480 --> 00:10:01,680 Speaker 3: work and you you didn't know what you're gonna get into. 170 00:10:01,720 --> 00:10:04,520 Speaker 3: And uh, that's one of the big differences between us 171 00:10:05,040 --> 00:10:07,040 Speaker 3: and some of the other agencies is we're not kind 172 00:10:07,040 --> 00:10:11,480 Speaker 3: of locked into such a small square mile area patrolling 173 00:10:11,480 --> 00:10:14,160 Speaker 3: the same things every day. Some days I come in 174 00:10:14,160 --> 00:10:16,360 Speaker 3: to work and, uh, hey, you're gonna go get on 175 00:10:16,400 --> 00:10:18,760 Speaker 3: a boat today and patrol. And then a call for 176 00:10:18,840 --> 00:10:21,400 Speaker 3: service comes in or an emergency response. You may have 177 00:10:21,480 --> 00:10:24,000 Speaker 3: to go rescue somebody out of the woods that got 178 00:10:24,040 --> 00:10:25,720 Speaker 3: you know, fell down and hurt themselves in the woods. 179 00:10:25,760 --> 00:10:28,840 Speaker 3: So now you're on an ATV or a UTV uh, 180 00:10:29,000 --> 00:10:30,680 Speaker 3: or your boss might have you go out and do 181 00:10:30,720 --> 00:10:33,080 Speaker 3: some bike patrol, so you might peddle around in the 182 00:10:33,080 --> 00:10:36,920 Speaker 3: campground and talk folks and uh do some patrols and 183 00:10:37,240 --> 00:10:40,080 Speaker 3: be actively seen uh in the state out in the 184 00:10:40,080 --> 00:10:42,520 Speaker 3: state park. And I could tell you one thing, our 185 00:10:42,559 --> 00:10:45,840 Speaker 3: folks in the campgrounds, they absolutely love to see our 186 00:10:45,920 --> 00:10:49,040 Speaker 3: officers out in the state parks. And uh the fact 187 00:10:49,080 --> 00:10:50,360 Speaker 3: that you know, I come home at the end of 188 00:10:50,360 --> 00:10:51,600 Speaker 3: the day, my wife's like, well, what did you do? 189 00:10:51,640 --> 00:10:53,839 Speaker 3: I said, well, uh, I started off patrolling in a 190 00:10:53,840 --> 00:10:56,920 Speaker 3: boat today and I had to go grab a UTV 191 00:10:57,080 --> 00:10:59,520 Speaker 3: and go rescue this person off a trail. And then 192 00:10:59,600 --> 00:11:02,680 Speaker 3: later that I was in the car running around, you know, 193 00:11:02,840 --> 00:11:05,200 Speaker 3: talking to people making traffic stops. 194 00:11:05,280 --> 00:11:08,480 Speaker 1: So well, you know what I just I should have 195 00:11:09,120 --> 00:11:14,280 Speaker 1: given that some consideration way back when as a potential career. 196 00:11:14,760 --> 00:11:17,600 Speaker 2: But no, what did I have to do, you. 197 00:11:17,520 --> 00:11:21,120 Speaker 1: Know, sitting in an office on my butt for forty years. 198 00:11:21,280 --> 00:11:24,800 Speaker 2: Well that's a little stretch. But anyway, hey, Michael, you 199 00:11:24,960 --> 00:11:25,480 Speaker 2: sit tight. 200 00:11:25,840 --> 00:11:28,000 Speaker 1: We're gonna come back and talk some more about the 201 00:11:28,040 --> 00:11:30,480 Speaker 1: open houses a little bit, and then a new boat 202 00:11:30,559 --> 00:11:33,960 Speaker 1: you guys have on order for this district down here 203 00:11:33,960 --> 00:11:36,840 Speaker 1: on the Ohio River. Chip Hart The Big Outdoors News 204 00:11:36,920 --> 00:11:40,600 Speaker 1: Radio seven hundred WLW, Cincinnati, Home of the Cincinnati Reds, 205 00:11:41,760 --> 00:11:45,600 Speaker 1: The Big Outdoors News Radio seven hundred WLW, Cincinnati, Home 206 00:11:45,640 --> 00:11:48,240 Speaker 1: and the Sinsinnay Reds and the best Bengals coverage. My 207 00:11:48,480 --> 00:11:51,960 Speaker 1: guest is Michael Stirworth. He's a captain with the Ohio 208 00:11:51,960 --> 00:11:55,280 Speaker 1: Department of Natural Resources and is officially a natural Resource 209 00:11:55,600 --> 00:11:59,760 Speaker 1: resources officer here in the state of Ohio. And Michael, 210 00:12:00,120 --> 00:12:03,600 Speaker 1: you know, I got to imagine that the stress level 211 00:12:03,679 --> 00:12:08,120 Speaker 1: is a lot different, you know, in law enforcement with 212 00:12:08,120 --> 00:12:12,479 Speaker 1: with like a d n R versus say, downtown Columbus, 213 00:12:12,480 --> 00:12:15,880 Speaker 1: the city of Columbus. But you guys can grow beards. 214 00:12:16,360 --> 00:12:17,920 Speaker 1: I mean, I thought that was phenomenal. 215 00:12:18,200 --> 00:12:21,720 Speaker 3: I mean, you know, absolutely for many years that we 216 00:12:21,720 --> 00:12:25,280 Speaker 3: we were we had to be clean shaven, and probably 217 00:12:25,280 --> 00:12:28,040 Speaker 3: about four or five years ago we made the change 218 00:12:28,800 --> 00:12:32,560 Speaker 3: as a lot of law enforcement agencies in the United 219 00:12:32,559 --> 00:12:36,160 Speaker 3: States have, so we can have beards, they have to 220 00:12:36,200 --> 00:12:39,280 Speaker 3: be well kept, h you know, in a certain length 221 00:12:39,320 --> 00:12:41,520 Speaker 3: and you've got to be it's gonna be well groomed. 222 00:12:42,000 --> 00:12:45,040 Speaker 3: And we can also our tattoos change, so we can 223 00:12:45,080 --> 00:12:49,280 Speaker 3: actually have tattoos. Just can't be exposed on your hands 224 00:12:49,440 --> 00:12:52,280 Speaker 3: and your fingers, okay, and they have to be be 225 00:12:52,679 --> 00:12:56,320 Speaker 3: below the neckline. So other than that, so our folks 226 00:12:56,400 --> 00:13:01,160 Speaker 3: can express themselves. Uh, you know in way that's you 227 00:13:01,200 --> 00:13:04,400 Speaker 3: know where it's not derogatory, and you know that's that's 228 00:13:04,440 --> 00:13:08,440 Speaker 3: allowing a different recruitment of folks that previously weren't able 229 00:13:08,440 --> 00:13:09,240 Speaker 3: to apply before. 230 00:13:09,440 --> 00:13:11,640 Speaker 2: Well, and I kind of believe that it's comforting. 231 00:13:11,840 --> 00:13:14,640 Speaker 1: Uh you know when an officer walks up at the 232 00:13:14,679 --> 00:13:17,960 Speaker 1: campground or something like that, and it kind of well, hey, hell, 233 00:13:18,200 --> 00:13:21,200 Speaker 1: that person looks like me, you know, just a normal 234 00:13:21,280 --> 00:13:23,559 Speaker 1: I think every day dude over woman. 235 00:13:24,160 --> 00:13:27,880 Speaker 3: Absolutely absolutely. I mean it's just the same person. They 236 00:13:27,880 --> 00:13:30,080 Speaker 3: just put on a uniform, but they get home, they 237 00:13:30,080 --> 00:13:32,120 Speaker 3: take their uniform off, and they're just the same as 238 00:13:32,120 --> 00:13:32,800 Speaker 3: everybody else. 239 00:13:32,920 --> 00:13:35,360 Speaker 1: All Right, Well, listen, pitch it, pitch it one more time, 240 00:13:35,400 --> 00:13:38,040 Speaker 1: because we've gone to get onto another subject. So how 241 00:13:38,080 --> 00:13:41,480 Speaker 1: can people go about getting involved in finding more about 242 00:13:42,480 --> 00:13:45,080 Speaker 1: becoming a natural resources officer? 243 00:13:46,320 --> 00:13:47,600 Speaker 2: All right, So we have a couple of ways. 244 00:13:47,679 --> 00:13:51,040 Speaker 3: You can go to the Ohio DNR doc gov click 245 00:13:51,080 --> 00:13:54,840 Speaker 3: on the Parks and Watercraft and look for their careers 246 00:13:55,240 --> 00:13:57,959 Speaker 3: page for us there, or you can go to careers 247 00:13:58,000 --> 00:14:01,280 Speaker 3: dot Ohio dot gov and click on the links and 248 00:14:01,320 --> 00:14:06,199 Speaker 3: look for that's resources officer positions as they become available. 249 00:14:07,360 --> 00:14:10,120 Speaker 3: And I just wanted to we have open houses coming 250 00:14:10,200 --> 00:14:12,319 Speaker 3: up here in Southwest Ohio. 251 00:14:12,480 --> 00:14:16,440 Speaker 2: So we have this Friday, the twentieth of February. 252 00:14:16,520 --> 00:14:20,120 Speaker 3: That's gonna be at Cowan Lake State Park, so you 253 00:14:20,160 --> 00:14:22,120 Speaker 3: can if you click that link, you can find the 254 00:14:22,160 --> 00:14:24,800 Speaker 3: address and the hours are gonna be from five pm 255 00:14:24,840 --> 00:14:28,880 Speaker 3: to eight pm. And then on February twenty seventh, that's 256 00:14:28,920 --> 00:14:31,640 Speaker 3: gonna be our next open house in Southwest that is going. 257 00:14:31,600 --> 00:14:33,520 Speaker 2: To be at buck Buck Creek. 258 00:14:33,320 --> 00:14:36,800 Speaker 3: State Park, Okay, and that'll be the addresses listed on 259 00:14:36,840 --> 00:14:39,080 Speaker 3: the website as well, and that's going to be from 260 00:14:39,120 --> 00:14:40,360 Speaker 3: five pm to eight pm. 261 00:14:40,600 --> 00:14:43,480 Speaker 1: Course, if you want to travel to you know, we're 262 00:14:43,560 --> 00:14:46,200 Speaker 1: heard around the world, so you know, you might get 263 00:14:46,200 --> 00:14:48,480 Speaker 1: somebody that drives like five or six hours away to 264 00:14:48,520 --> 00:14:50,040 Speaker 1: get you know, to get to one of the other 265 00:14:50,080 --> 00:14:51,240 Speaker 1: ones around the state, you know. 266 00:14:51,680 --> 00:14:53,440 Speaker 2: So yeah, but it's all good stuff. 267 00:14:54,720 --> 00:14:57,000 Speaker 3: Yep. We had a guy that drove from Megs County 268 00:14:57,040 --> 00:15:00,680 Speaker 3: to go to the Eastport location. So if if there's 269 00:15:00,720 --> 00:15:04,000 Speaker 3: any listeners listening, you know, we there's going to be 270 00:15:04,120 --> 00:15:07,080 Speaker 3: multiple locations statewide, So if you can't attend one that's 271 00:15:07,080 --> 00:15:10,000 Speaker 3: in Southwest, you can look at the dates coming up 272 00:15:10,000 --> 00:15:12,000 Speaker 3: here and maybe find one closer to your home. 273 00:15:12,200 --> 00:15:14,120 Speaker 2: Okay, now, switching gears. 274 00:15:14,680 --> 00:15:18,440 Speaker 1: I didn't know this, but the US Coast Guard here 275 00:15:19,160 --> 00:15:23,120 Speaker 1: station no longer operates with a boat so water. You 276 00:15:23,200 --> 00:15:26,280 Speaker 1: guys have a new boat on order for the Ohio River. 277 00:15:27,680 --> 00:15:32,600 Speaker 3: We do so essentially, you know, for whatever reasons, the 278 00:15:33,160 --> 00:15:35,600 Speaker 3: Coast Guard boats that used to be in Cincinnati all 279 00:15:35,640 --> 00:15:40,200 Speaker 3: the time, they have vacated their positions here and are 280 00:15:40,320 --> 00:15:43,880 Speaker 3: essentially just doing an MSD location in Cincinnati down off 281 00:15:43,880 --> 00:15:46,880 Speaker 3: of River Road, and they they're just inspecting the commercial 282 00:15:46,920 --> 00:15:51,200 Speaker 3: barge traffic and the barge companies. So that leaves Ohio 283 00:15:51,360 --> 00:15:56,160 Speaker 3: D and R and Kentucky Fishing Wildlife with conducting law 284 00:15:56,240 --> 00:16:00,320 Speaker 3: enforcement on the Ohio River. So one of the things 285 00:16:00,360 --> 00:16:02,360 Speaker 3: a lot of people don't know about Ohio D and 286 00:16:02,480 --> 00:16:04,280 Speaker 3: R is not only do we take care of our 287 00:16:04,320 --> 00:16:08,200 Speaker 3: state parks, but we are also responsible for law enforcement 288 00:16:08,400 --> 00:16:10,960 Speaker 3: on all the state the waters within the state of 289 00:16:10,960 --> 00:16:13,640 Speaker 3: Ohio including Lake Erie and. 290 00:16:13,640 --> 00:16:14,400 Speaker 2: The Ohio River. 291 00:16:15,520 --> 00:16:18,600 Speaker 3: And with that being said, we actually do one additional 292 00:16:18,640 --> 00:16:22,880 Speaker 3: thing as we provide homeland security to the Port of Cincinnati, 293 00:16:23,440 --> 00:16:28,200 Speaker 3: and that requires you know a lot of power and 294 00:16:29,040 --> 00:16:30,680 Speaker 3: you know, the equipment to be able to do that. 295 00:16:31,360 --> 00:16:33,680 Speaker 3: And the last time that we had a vessel built 296 00:16:34,440 --> 00:16:37,720 Speaker 3: for that was back in twenty ten, and that vessel, 297 00:16:37,880 --> 00:16:40,600 Speaker 3: after being ten years of age setting out in the 298 00:16:40,640 --> 00:16:44,920 Speaker 3: sun all those loan hours, is starting to degrade. So 299 00:16:45,000 --> 00:16:47,560 Speaker 3: back in twenty twenty four, OD and R put in 300 00:16:47,760 --> 00:16:52,520 Speaker 3: for a grant to build the next generation vessel, and 301 00:16:52,600 --> 00:16:55,120 Speaker 3: so that vessel. What that vessel is going to allow 302 00:16:55,640 --> 00:16:58,359 Speaker 3: us to do is something that in my in my career. 303 00:16:58,120 --> 00:16:59,160 Speaker 2: We've not been able to do. 304 00:16:59,680 --> 00:17:02,400 Speaker 3: And it's essentially be out there three in our sixty 305 00:17:02,400 --> 00:17:05,560 Speaker 3: five days a year. Uh. It's gonna be a thirty 306 00:17:05,600 --> 00:17:08,600 Speaker 3: one foot cabin boat which is gonna have heating and 307 00:17:08,640 --> 00:17:09,359 Speaker 3: air conditioning. 308 00:17:09,840 --> 00:17:11,720 Speaker 2: It's gonna have two big V. 309 00:17:11,720 --> 00:17:15,640 Speaker 3: Eight engines on there, It'll have you know, all kinds 310 00:17:15,640 --> 00:17:19,960 Speaker 3: of equipment for comforts for the officers, and it's gonna 311 00:17:19,960 --> 00:17:23,479 Speaker 3: be twin jet drive which will allow us to uh 312 00:17:24,040 --> 00:17:27,359 Speaker 3: not damage the lower units when we're all responding to 313 00:17:27,400 --> 00:17:29,359 Speaker 3: an emergency call. 314 00:17:29,400 --> 00:17:32,439 Speaker 1: I can't wait to see that puppy up on plane. Man, 315 00:17:32,960 --> 00:17:36,280 Speaker 1: that's gonna be that, It's gonna be great. Well, hey, Michael, 316 00:17:36,359 --> 00:17:39,400 Speaker 1: we gotta we gotta take off. But I appreciate your 317 00:17:39,440 --> 00:17:43,639 Speaker 1: time this morning, and you know, hope I'll be running 318 00:17:43,640 --> 00:17:45,440 Speaker 1: into you in a not too distant future. 319 00:17:47,240 --> 00:17:49,480 Speaker 3: Chiff, thanks for having me, and I'd love to be 320 00:17:49,560 --> 00:17:52,840 Speaker 3: back on if you have more questions in the future, sir. 321 00:17:52,760 --> 00:17:55,040 Speaker 2: Hey, we will take care with that. 322 00:17:55,200 --> 00:17:57,280 Speaker 1: Got to hit a break and I'm lay Chip Hart 323 00:17:57,359 --> 00:18:00,679 Speaker 1: the Big Outdoors News Radio seven hundred WLW Cincinnati. 324 00:18:03,400 --> 00:18:06,359 Speaker 2: Would the headlines are enough, go deeper. 325 00:18:06,160 --> 00:18:09,119 Speaker 3: All the struggles, all the harday, all the triumphs with brokenness, 326 00:18:09,280 --> 00:18:10,520 Speaker 3: there's goodness at the end of. 327 00:18:10,480 --> 00:18:15,080 Speaker 1: That WLW Cincinnati. That was Captain Michael Sturworth. He is 328 00:18:15,200 --> 00:18:19,920 Speaker 1: at the excuse me, the East Fork State Park Office, 329 00:18:20,160 --> 00:18:23,040 Speaker 1: which is the main office here in the southwest Ohio 330 00:18:23,080 --> 00:18:26,800 Speaker 1: for there for the parks and natural resources officers. So 331 00:18:26,920 --> 00:18:28,960 Speaker 1: pretty cool. But it was a great program, and like 332 00:18:28,960 --> 00:18:30,399 Speaker 1: I said, I took my son there and I just 333 00:18:30,440 --> 00:18:33,280 Speaker 1: had to. I had to put this back out there. Anyway, 334 00:18:34,080 --> 00:18:35,960 Speaker 1: if you're in the mood for sports, and boat shows. 335 00:18:35,960 --> 00:18:38,440 Speaker 1: There's a bunch of them still left. You got Louisville 336 00:18:38,520 --> 00:18:42,320 Speaker 1: right now, You got Indianapolis right now to to do 337 00:18:42,359 --> 00:18:45,680 Speaker 1: what else we got done. Maybe Louisville's over with anyway, 338 00:18:46,080 --> 00:18:49,960 Speaker 1: got the open season Sportsman Show in Columbus, but there's 339 00:18:50,000 --> 00:18:52,560 Speaker 1: a lot. Harrisburg is on. That's it, okay with that. 340 00:18:52,680 --> 00:18:55,400 Speaker 1: I'm out here, Jippart the Big Outdoors News Radio, seven 341 00:18:55,480 --> 00:18:58,440 Speaker 1: hundred WLW, Cincinnati'd be safe in the woods and safe 342 00:18:58,480 --> 00:18:58,880 Speaker 1: on the water.