Make sure you’re hunting and fishing responsibly—Eastern Washington has a new captain leading the “cops in the woods.”

Captain Alan Myers now heads the Department of Fish and Wildlife’s Region 1 law enforcement.

SPR and Spokesman Review outdoors editor Michael Wright interviewed Myers about his position soon after he took the office. Listen in on their conversation here.

ELIZA BILLINGHAM : Captain Alan Myers’ work has taken him all over the place. He worked with the Navy near the Great Lakes, and then he went to the University of Washington and was selected for the Police Corps program. He was then recruited by the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife to protect shellfish, teach taser skills, and recover killer whales.

But he started his fish and wildlife career in Newport, and

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