Backcountry Lawman - True Stories from a Florida Game Warden

Most people have never imagined the often dicey, comical, and sometimes bizarre job of a Florida game warden. Backcountry Lawman tells what it’s like to catch an armed poacher in the act - alone, at night, without backup or a decent radio to call for help. These stories describe the cat-and-mouse games often played between game wardens and poachers of ducks, turkeys, hogs, deer, gators, and other species. Few people realize that "monkey fishing" - electrocution of catfish - had the same outlaw mystique in the rivers of Florida as moonshining once did in the hills of Georgia and Tennessee.

Info autore

Bob H. Lee spent over three decades as a water patrol officer on the St. Johns River and a land patrol lieutenant in Putnam, St. Johns, and Flagler counties. Before retiring in 2007, he taught man-tracking classes through the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.

Riassunto

Most people have never imagined the often dicey, comical, and sometimes bizarre job of a Florida game warden. Backcountry Lawman tells what it’s like to catch an armed poacher in the act - alone, at night, without backup or a decent radio. These stories describe the cat-and-mouse games often played between game wardens and poachers of ducks, turkeys, hogs, deer, gators, and other species.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Bob H Lee, Bob H. Lee
• Editore: University Press Of Florida
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 31.03.2015
• EAN: 9780813061283
• ISBN: 978-0-8130-6128-3
• Pagine: 256
• Serie: Florida History and Culture (P; Florida History and Culture; Florida History and Culture (P
• Categorie: Narrativa > Romanzi > Epistole, diari; Saggistica > Politica, società, economia > Biografie, autobiografie; Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Tecnica > Tecnica edile e ambientale; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia > Storia contemporanea (dal 1945 al 1989)