In his own words…
“I have always thought we were missing a bet here in New Hampshire and New England. We have at our elbows the most wonderful example of nature and religion. I have tried to show it to the kids and sportsmen.” - Slim Baker, April, 1953
“If a man would just stop his car, get out and walk 200 or 300 feet into the woods, stop and keep still for ten minutes and look around him and listen, he would find himself in another world. The birds, the animals, growing things, even the bugs get along together.” - Slim Baker, April, 1953
Everett Dane Baker
Everett “Slim” Baker, worked as a NH Fish and Game Conservation Officer for 20 years.
Lucy Baker, wife to Slim, Mother to daughter Beth and local school teacher in the Newfound Area.
Slim played a major role in finding lost child, Pamela Hollingsworth, in 1941.
“All you have to do is give a kid a chance. There is so much good in every child. If you take a kid into the woods with a pack on his back, it will bring out the best in him.” Slim, April, 1953.
Working the flood control gate at the foot of the lake. Slim believed that the future of fish and game and conservation rests with the young people of the state.
Conservation Officer Everett Baker, known to most everyone as “Slim”, was born October 26, 1910, in New Boston, NH where he was educated until going to the University of New Hampshire in Durham, NH. There he received his degree in Forestry. After leaving Durham, Slim ran a quick gamut of different working experiences which carried him all the way across the country and in a variety of positions. He drove a taxi in Boston, Massachusetts, drove cattle on a farm in New Mexico, worked river boats, picked cotton and worked in the salmon and sardine canneries on the west coast, evening adventuring into Mexico to work in the silver mines and oil fields. He also spent a year working in the forestry field in California gaining experience in the field he prepared himself for.
In July of 1933, Slim joined the New Hampshire Fish and Game as a Conservation Officer where he spent the duration of his career. Between 1943 to 1946, he spent a stint in the armed forces.