Sgt. Dustin Burke has been named the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency Wildlife Officer of the Year for the Southeastern Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies (SEAFWA). He is responsible for the Off-Highway Program in District 41 which includes the 200,000 acre North Cumberland Wildlife Management Area which spans Morgan, Scott, Anderson, Campbell, and Claiborne counties.
Sgt. Burke assisted the Agency in speaking with the district attorney, local judges, TWRA commissioners, wildlife managers, and Nashville staff about the safety issues on North Cumberland WMA. He gathered feedback from the public and compiled statistics to support the need for the rule amendment to ban alcohol on WMAs. He is in the process of implementing the TITAN crash reporting system, currently used by the Tennessee Highway Patrol, to enhance the efficiency and accuracy of incident reporting on North Cumberland WMA.