Local Warden
Earns State Accolade
By Keith Whitcomb, Jr.
OUNT HOLLY — Timothy
Carey knew what he wanted
to do for a career the day he
job-shadowed his local game warden, a
day that featured traveling to Manchester,
New Hampshire, to check on someone’s
pet alligator.
“I fi gured out then and there that’s
what I wanted to do,” Carey said recently
in an interview.
In June, at a ceremony in Montpelier,
Carey was recognized by Gov. Phil Scott as
Vermont’s Warden of the Year.
Since 2013, Carey has patrolled the
Mount Holly area, covering the towns
of Clarendon, Wallingford, Mount
Holly, Ludlow, Shrewsbury, Plymouth,
Mount Tabor, Weston, Andover, Peru,
Londonderry, Winhall and Windham.
A native of Hooksett, New Hampshire,
Carey said he was happy to be assigned
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that area, as his grandfather lived in
Ludlow.
Carey said he remembers the alligator
as having been 10 feet long, living in a
children’s pool inside a man’s apartment.
He thinks the person had applied for a
permit to keep the creature as a pet and
the warden’s visit was part of that.
“I don’t know if he ever got his permit
or not,” said Carey.
Carey was told that Unity College in
Maine was where many future wardens
got their education, so that’s where he
went to school. While he was in college,
he happened to speak with Col. Jason
Batchelder, the head of Vermont’s game
wardens, who told him about what being
a warden was like in the Green Mountain
State. Carey liked what he heard, and after
working for a bit in the National Park
Service, he applied to be a warden here.
Being a warden requires one to graduate
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from the Vermont Police Academy and
complete eight months of fi eld training.
Carey said he was hired along with three
others. He feels lucky he gets to cover the
Mount Holly area.
“If you ask me, there’s no bad place to
cover, I’d do it anywhere in Vermont,” he
said, noting that his beat is fairly diverse in
terms of environments.
Variety is what attracts many to the
job, he said, adding that it’s hard to recall
any one incident or call as being more
memorable than any others. There was
one call he does remember, however.
Carey said, in 2018, in Shrewsbury,
a woman contacted him saying her
husband had gone ruffed grouse hunting
that morning and hadn’t called her, nor
returned home by nightfall. Carey said
the hunter had given his wife a fairly good
idea of where he’d be, so Carey went there
and ran his siren. He listened, then heard
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