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 1933, Slim joined the New Hampshire Fish and Game as a Conservation Officer, where he spent the duration of his career. Between 1943 and 1946, he spent a stint in the armed forces. After gaining experiences all over the state of NH as a Conservation Officer, Slim was assigned to the Bristol area, where he stayed for the duration of this 20 year career with NH Fish and Game. He was an able officer and gifted in dealing with youngsters who loved to hear his stories of practical conservation education. Slim was also a talented storyteller and was in constant demand to speak at sportsman’s clubs and other groups.

Slim was a beloved officer and stayed on the job until his strength failed him, when he became ill with cancer in 1952. Slim had no fear of death, although he had known for months the end was only a matter of time. From the outdoors which he had loved all his life he had developed a clam philosophy that carried him through months of severe suffer. He often said that death was Nature’s law and as normal as life, and pointed to the fact that grasses and plants round on their cycle of life and death. People like wild animals, he said, die to make room for others.