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MDC is accepting applications for its next class of conservation agent trainees. Graduates will join (l-r) Conservation Agents Sarah Foran, Caleb Sevy, Justin Pyburn, and other agents in enforcing the Wildlife Code of Missouri, educating people about conservation, and serving the public as ambassadors for conservation.
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MDC is accepting applications for its next class of conservation agent trainees. Conservation agents have phenomenal “office” views and work to ensure people in Missouri have wild resources and wild places to enjoy by enforcing the Wildlife Code of Missouri, educating people about conservation, and serving the public as ambassadors for conservation
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three agents
MDC is accepting applications for its next class of conservation agent trainees. Graduates will join (l-r) Conservation Agents Sarah Foran, Caleb Sevy, Justin Pyburn, and other agents in enforcing the Wildlife Code of Missouri, educating people about conservation, and serving the public as ambassadors for conservation.
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agent at sunset
MDC is accepting applications for its next class of conservation agent trainees. Conservation agents have phenomenal “office” views and work to ensure people in Missouri have wild resources and wild places to enjoy by enforcing the Wildlife Code of Missouri, educating people about conservation, and serving the public as ambassadors for conservation
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Revised Date
07/22/2021
By
Joe Jerek
06/30/2021

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – Interested in a healthy, rewarding, outdoor career to help protect and manage wildlife resources for future generations? The Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) is currently recruiting and accepting online applications to fill an academy class of conservation agent trainees.

Successful candidates will undergo 26 weeks of intense training in all facets of law enforcement and resource management/conservation stewardship. Upon graduation, newly commissioned conservation agents receive a county assignment and become the face of conservation in their communities – fairly enforcing the Wildlife Code of Missouri to promote voluntary compliance and serving the public “off the beaten path.”

The application period has been extended from July 31 to Aug.13. Get more information on essential agent job duties, education requirements, experience and knowledge needed, required skills and abilities, physical abilities required, pay and benefits, how to apply, conditions of employment, and more online at jobs.mdc.mo.gov/job/Jefferson-City-Conservation-Agent-Trainee-MO-65109/760051400/.

To learn more about the job, contact MDC Protection Branch Major Brian Ham at 573-751-4115, ext. 3819 or Brian.Ham@mdc.mo.gov.

Want to know more about the work of conservation agents? Watch these videos from MDC: Conservation Agent Matt Smith at youtube.com/watch?v=1856t1GC6OE and MDC Conservation Agent Lexis Riter at youtube.com/watch?v=8Beigpg8I3A.