watch live The 13 conservation officers who will occupy these previously vacant stations have spent the past year training in all aspects of public safety and natural resources protection. Ryan Brown will fill the vacant Karlstad station, and Corey Sura will fill the Baudette No. 2 station in Lake of the Woods County. The new COs were selected from among hundreds of applicants and spent May to August at the Conservation Officer Academy at Camp Ripley near Little Falls, Minn. After initial training, where they learned all aspects of the job in classroom and scenario-based situations, they worked for 16 weeks in the field with experienced officers throughout the state.