GAME WARDEN KYLE YODER GRADUATES FROM DPS ACADEMY
Washington County’s Game Warden of seven years is now a DPS Trooper.
Academy, beginning his service as a DPS Trooper.
(courtesy DPS)
Kyle Yoder graduated from the Texas Department of Public Safety Training Academy, following months of physical, tactical and academic training. DPS held a ceremony in Austin on Friday honoring 104 new Highway Patrol Troopers in Class B-2025, the department’s 179th graduating class.
Yoder has served Washington County as a Game Warden since 2018, after originally being stationed in Pecos County. A member of the 60th Game Warden Cadet class of 2015, Yoder was named the 2021 Game Warden of the Year for the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department’s Law Enforcement Region 7.
Yoder says, “Texas Parks and Wildlife is a wonderful agency that has supported me through this transition the entire time. Their steadfast commitment to preservation and conservation for future generations and public safety is something that I hold dear to my heart. The agency is what made this transition successful. I may be wearing a different patch, but they will always be my family just as the Texas Department of Public Safety and Texas Parks and Wildlife will always be brothers in arms.”
According to DPS, the newly commissioned Troopers will report to their duty stations across Texas on September 28th.
Washington County’s new Game Warden is Vinicius Mathias. DPS Sergeant Stephen Woodard says he plans to have Mathias on the next edition of “Safety Talk” on KWHI. “Safety Talk” airs on select Thursdays after the Brenham ISD Roundtable.
(courtesy photo)