| Title | : | Wildlife Wars: The Life and Times of a Fish and Game Warden |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.59 (676 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1555662463 |
| Format Type | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 304 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
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In "Wildlife Wars," Terry Grosz serves up fascinating stories—alternately hair-raising, hilarious, and heart-wrenching—from his 30-year struggle to protect wildlife in America. A natural storyteller, Grosz writes about the remarkable characters he met—on both sides of the law—as he matched wits with elk poachers, salmon snaggers, commercial-market duck hunters, and a host of other law-breakers. Best of all, though, these stories are so remarkably entertaining you won’t want to put them down.
Editorial : From Publishers Weekly Environmentalism meets Indiana Jones in these rip-snorting tales of a former wildlife conservation officer. The bad guys here are illegal deer hunters, law-breaking drag-boat fishermen who pilfer the ocean depths, poachers who kill elk, anglers who disrupt historic salmon spawning grounds and other miscreants who feed the flourishing illicit wildlife trade. Grosz has seen them allAand arrested manyAin his 32 years as a special agent for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and as a California state fish and game warden. A bear of a manAsix-foot-four, over 300 poundsAGrosz relates his exploits in adventures full of slam-bang action and bravado tempered by a coolheaded sense of humor. Motivated by reverence for God's creation, he comes off as a mixture of guts and heart. In one episode, he sleeps overnight in a California rice field with a feeding flock of several thousand mallard ducks to protect them from commercial hunters. Full of gumption and guile, Grosz readil
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