Captain Phil Meier, a 34-year veteran of the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, was recently promoted to major and named the Division of Enforcement’s operations manager.
The operations manager directs the division’s field operations, which includes public contacts and field response, customer service, human-wildlife management conflict, and law enforcement.
Major Meier began his career with the DNR in 1976 with Fisheries before becoming a conservation officer in 1990.
In 1995 he was promoted to lieutenant and served as a district supervisor in Mille Lacs Lake, Park Rapids, and Fergus Falls before being promoted to captain and 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 DNR Enforcement.
