Patrol assigned areas by car, boat, airplane, horse, or on foot to enforce game, fish, or boating laws or to manage wildlife programs, lakes, or land.

“Patrol assigned areas by car, boat, airplane, horse, or on foot to enforce game, fish, or boating laws or to manage wildlife programs, lakes, or land.” is a core task performed by Fish and Game Wardens. Among the occupation's 24 rated tasks, workers place it 24th by importance (#1 most important). About 100% of workers say it is relevant to their job.

This is a single occupation-specific task statement from O*NET. The figures below describe how central the task is to the job and what independent studies measure about AI and this kind of work — not a prediction that the task will be automated.

Work activities this task rolls up to

O*NET groups concrete tasks into broader work activities shared across many occupations.

• Monitor safety or security of work areas, facilities, or properties. in Monitoring Processes, Materials, or Surroundings

AI exposure

The OpenAI / Eloundou “GPTs are GPTs” study rates this task E0. No direct exposure — current language models give little or no time savings on this task.

Exposure measures whether a model could meaningfully speed the task up — it is an estimate of overlap with model capabilities, not a measure of whether the work will be done by software. The study's intermediate score (β) for this task is 0.00. Automation potential label: T0.

How AI is actually used on this kind of task

The Anthropic Economic Index observes how people actually use AI on tasks like this one across millions of real conversations.

• 96% of interactions still needed a human in the loop

Observed AI use describes people choosing to use AI as a tool on this kind of task today. It is augmentation and assistance, not a measure of jobs replaced.

Other tasks in this occupation

• Compile and present evidence for court actions. · importance 4.6
• Investigate hunting accidents or reports of fish or game law violations. · importance 4.6
• Protect and preserve native wildlife, plants, or ecosystems. · importance 4.5
• Issue warnings or citations and file reports as necessary. · importance 4.5
• Serve warrants and make arrests. · importance 4.3
• Provide assistance to other local law enforcement agencies as required. · importance 4.2
• Promote or provide hunter or trapper safety training. · importance 4.0
• Participate in search-and-rescue operations. · importance 4.0
• Arrange for disposition of fish or game illegally taken or possessed. · importance 4.0
• Seize equipment used in fish and game law violations. · importance 4.0
• Address schools, civic groups, sporting clubs, or the media to disseminate information concerning wildlife conservation and regulations. · importance 3.9
• Recommend revisions in hunting and trapping regulations or in animal management programs so that wildlife balances or habitats can be maintained. · importance 3.9
• Inspect commercial operations relating to fish or wildlife, recreation, or protected areas. · importance 3.9
• Survey areas and compile figures of bag counts of hunters to determine the effectiveness of control measures. · importance 3.8

See all tasks on the Fish and Game Wardens page.

Sources for this page

Every figure above traces to a named public dataset and the exact release below — not hand-written opinion. See the full methodology for what each measure does and does not mean.

• O*NET 30.3 U.S. Department of Labor / National Center for O*NET Development
• Anthropic Economic Index v4 (2026-01-15) + v2 (2025-03-27) Anthropic
• “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130 OpenAI / academic

Data compiled June 2, 2026. Figures are estimates, not advice.

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  title  = {Patrol assigned areas by car, boat, airplane, horse, or on foot to enforce game, fish, or boating laws or to manage wildlife programs, lakes, or land.},
  author = {{Singulariki}},
  year   = {2026},
  note   = {O*NET 30.3; Anthropic Economic Index v4 (2026-01-15) + v2 (2025-03-27); “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130. Accessed June 7, 2026},
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