DNR Enforcement Division names new operations manager

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DNR Enforcement Division names new operations manager
(Released January 19, 2012)

Capt. Phil Meier, a 34-year veteran of the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR), has been promoted to major and named the Division of Enforcement’s operations manager.
The operations manager directs the Enforcement Division’s field operations, which includes public contacts and field response, customer service, human-wildlife management conflict and law enforcement.

Meier began his DNR career in 1976 with Fisheries before becoming a conservation officer in 1990.

Meier was promoted to lieutenant in 1995, and served as a district supervisor in Mille Lacs Lake, Park Rapids and Fergus Falls areas. He was promoted to captain and the DNR’s Southern Region enforcement supervisor at New Ulm in 2009.

Meier succeeds Lt. Col. Rodmen Smith, who was recently promoted to assistant director of the DNR Enforcement Division.