i see them driving on the highway sometimes but never actually doing their job. the only government officials i've ever seen /out/ were some zoomer interns asking about invasive fish at a marina.
they yell at me for my dog off leash
>>2843227I live near one of their major HQs, I see them driving around all the time. I've run into volunteer forest jannies a few times in the wilderness area near me. They're useless. Lower part of the wilderness area is managed by guys whose families have lived there for a hundred years, and they have a healthy disdain for the forest jannies because the forest jannies won't do anything.I've interacted with them one time for Search & Rescue... they were also useless in that situation. I've interacted with NPS guys a bunch. I like them. They seem to try to be helpful.
>>2843227All the time. They like to check fishing licenses around the lakes I fish. But I have mine, so it's no big deal. There are also strictly enforced limits that they enforce. I'm mostly catch and release anyway, so also not a concern for me.
>>2843227I run into CBP/ICE all the time while hunting.
>>2843227I’m a wildlife biologist and some forest jannies are cool, but man are a lot of them dicks. If you’ve had bad experiences with them as the public, they give their coworkers the same shitty attitude and were supposed to be “on the same side.”
>>2843227The high school I went to was in a national park and depending on how you drove in there would often be pine pigs hiding in their ford explorers with a radar gun. They were always mocked as being little bitches.
I am a forest janny. But i have no forest. Just scrub and burn scars.
unofficial honorary forest jannies>be me>driving to weird waterfall that's kinda like next to a developed tourist lake with a buncha houses on it>no idea where it is>google maps suggested it might be roadside so that's why I'm here>miss a turn, turns out that that dirt road that I thought was just a driveway IS the road the waterfall is on>turn back and go the right way>now I am behind some literal grandma going 15 mph to the point where my feet ache trying to feather the pedal to match how slow she is going>she takes the very last decent parking space which is just a pulloff on a dirt road>park sort of parallel to the road, trying not to block anything>boomer appears>yells at me for blocking the road, I just say ok, not looking for a fight>wait till family leaves, they take their sweet ass time and are yelling at their kids who don't want to get in the carthe waterfall was NOT roadside, but it wasn't far and it was pretty but jesus they need to add more parkingtime 2>hiking in the wilderness for 7 hours>have not seen a soul>now on a more popular/main trail through it at least>guy comes up behind me "not to scare you but coming through">or something like that, he's going faster than me, who can barely walk, young guy>him: oh im a forest service volunteer>give him the dog that is following us and whose nose is covered in my poop from earlier that day>random ass dog was the only thing we had seen, with a radio control collartime 3>driving to new-ish trail>converted strip mine>not one but a full fleet of forest service vehicles go past at one point like 20 of themguess they were there to enjoy the trail
>>2843229This also one tried to accuse me of digging up Indian mounds
>>2843227I'm a contractor I worked for the USFS for 20 years and several other agencies in that time. DOI mostly. I've worked with literally hundreds of forest jannies. They're nice to me because if they give me any shit I will raise their prices.
Never deep in the woods but often get asked for my fishing license and on one of the popular hiking/sunbathing sites near me, they check for land passes (which are included in a fishing license).
I got a $200 ticket from DNR for fishing in a river that had just been stocked and no fishing was allowed that month. It would have been $50 more for each fish I had but I was doing catch and release. It was the best fishing I had ever had in my life so probably worth it
