A Sword for Mother Nature

by Grosz, Terry

• ISBN13: 9781555662813
• ISBN10: 1555662811
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-05-01
• Publisher: Johnson Books

Summary

Award-winning author Terry Grosz, whose career in conservation is matched by his skill as a storyteller, revisits his rookie years as a fish and game warden for the State of California, where his on-the-job training got him into some awful scrapes (but the bad guys he chased almost always got into worse ones). As a law enforcement agent, he learned to sniff out trouble, defuse tense situations, and stay alive; and as a human being, he learned to temper justice with mercy and to treat everyone fairly. Grosz's stories are action-packed and driven by his passion to preserve our country's wildlife, whether he was working under the wing of a mentor, fighting out from underfoot of the bureaucrats, or stepping on the toes of corrupt and hypocritical politicians.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Acknowledgments	xvii
A Game Warden's ``Stew''	1	(45)
``I Want My Net Back''	46	(22)
To Kill a Duck	68	(11)
A Rainy Night and a Bleeding Trunk	79	(18)
Scrap-Iron Charlie	97	(28)
Eric	125	(27)
The Commercial Froggers	152	(40)
The World's Unluckiest Thieves	192	(13)
The Mossback and the Bean Harvester	205	(23)
``Here Come da Judge''	228	(23)
The Rubber Chicken	251	(16)
The Survival Instructor	267	(16)
Screwups	283