In SW Texas, the game wardens are spread pretty thin. My home county is the size of Delaware, and we have maybe three or four wardens, total. All they can do is work the "key" areas where they know from experience that poachers will likely operate.
Response time? Well, maybe sixty miles of pavement before a turnoff onto twenty miles of bad jeep trail--if they're not already tied up on another case or at the jail or in court.
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