Wildlife Wars

by Grosz, Terry

• ISBN13: 9781555662462
• ISBN10: 1555662463
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-09-01
• Publisher: Johnson Books

Summary

At six-foot-four and 300 pounds, Terry Grosz -- nicknamed "Tiny" by his fellow officers -- seems larger than life, and his stories contain the stuff of legend as well. In Wildlife Wars, he serves up tales from his early years as a game warden in the field for the State of California, where he matched wits with elk poachers, salmon snaggers, duck harvesters, and a host of other law-breakers.

The cause for which Grosz fought is underestimated by most Americans, few of whom have any notion of the enormity of the problem. The greed of the market hunters who traffic in animals and animal parts and the egos of the trophy hunters who consider themselves above the law place an incredible strain on America's wildlife. And the stakes are high -- when thousands can be made with the slaughter of a bear or bighorn sheep, poachers play for keeps, and they play a deadly game.

A natural storyteller, Grosz writes about the remarkable characters he met -- on both sides of the law -- and the tight spots he got into, all the while extracting lessons from these experiences that

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Acknowledgments	xv
Ishi-Pishi Falls	1	(25)
A Carload of Indians and a Trunkload of Fish	26	(10)
Gold Beach	36	(10)
Chili for Breakfast	46	(13)
The Big One That Didn't Get Away	59	(8)
The Gunnysack	67	(9)
Gut Feeling	76	(10)
I Just Wanted a Fish for My Sick Wife	86	(10)
A Case of Crabs	96	(11)
My Friend Tom	107	(8)
State Line Road	115	(38)
Taking a Load of 4's	153	(13)
The Gold Dust Twins	166	(24)
A Rocket in the Car	190	(6)
Now We Are Even	196	(10)
One Drop of Blood	206	(9)
Tinkle, Tinkle, Eeeeeeee, Boom!	215	(16)
A Game Warden's Ears	231	(8)
Crazy Joe and the Drag	239	(14)
Two Strikes and You Are Out!	253