Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1025988 in Books
• Published on: 2001-09
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: 1.08" h x 6.08" w x 8.96" l, 1.24 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 368 pages

From Booklist
Continuing the chronicle he began in Wildlife Wars (1999) and For the Love of Wildness (2000), former conservation officer Grosz adds to the story of his years defending the nation's natural resources and wildlife. The author and his colleagues arranged the surprise dawn arrest of a group of hunters slaughtering ducks, and meanwhile they started a myth of paratrooping California wildlife agents. A promotion to a special-agent position with the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service then broadens the field for this wildlife policeman. Posted to the northern plains, he battles Native Americans who illegally sell eagle feathers, catches farmers as they drain and fill wetlands in the middle of the night, ambushes American hunters smuggling their kills into the U.S., and helps start a wildlife forensics laboratory. Throughout the breezy, entertaining book, Grosz's intellectual and emotional commitment to the cause shines through, and his many scathing remarks about how wildlife agencies are badly underfunded really hit home. Nancy Bent
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Rocky Mountain News, Oct. 10, 2001
". . . must reading for anyone who loves wildlife and abhors the greedy profiteering that would steal it away . . ."

About the Author
Terry Grosz earned his bachelor’s degree in 1964 and his master’s in wildlife management in 1966 from Humboldt State College in California. He was a California State Fish and Game Warden, based first in Eurika and thn Colusa, from 1966 to 1970. He then joined the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, and served in California as a U.S. Game Management Agent and Special Agent until 1974. After that, he was promoted to Senior Resident Agent and placed in charge of North and South Dakota for two years, followed by three years as Senior Special Agent in Washington, D.C., with the Endangered Species Program, Division of Law Enforcement. While in Washington, he also served as a foreign liaison officer. In 1979 he became Assistant Special Agent in Charge in Minneapolis, and then was promoted to Special Agent in Charge, and transferred to Denver in 1981, where he remained until retirement in June 1998 (although his title changed to Assistant Regional Director for Law Enforcement).

He has earned many awards and honors during his career, including, from the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, the Meritorious Service Award in 1996, and Top Ten Awards in 1987 as one of the top ten employees (in an agency of some 9,000). The Fish & Wildlife Foundation presented him with the Guy Bradley Award in 1989, and in 1995 he received the Conservation Achievement Award for Law Enforcement from the National Wildlife Federation. His first book, "Wildlife Wars," was published in 1999 and won the National Outdoor Book Award for nature and the environment. His next book, "For Love of Wildness," was published a year later.