{"product_id":"backcountry-lawman-true-stories-from-a-florida-game-warden-the-florida-history-and-culture-series-9780813044293","title":"Backcountry Lawman: True Stories from a Florida Game Warden (The Florida History and Culture Series)","description":"\u003cp\u003eFirst Place  Florida Outdoor Writers Association Excellence in Craft Award  If you enjoy outdoor adventure flavored with colorful characters and wry humor  this book is for you. Follow dedicated wildlife officers as they use their wits and skills in the pursuit of poachers and wildlife law violators.Tom Mastin  forester and managing broker  Mossy Oak Properties Legacy Realty Services  Lee recounts his amazing and challenging career as a Florida game warden with wit  wisdom  and careful attention to detail. You will travel with him as he boats the St. Johns River  walk beside him as he wades past resting alligators  and listen for that gunshot on a cold Putnam County night.Jeff Hahr  former patrol supervisor  Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission  In the underbelly of Florida  hardened poachers operate in the dark  out of sight and away from residents who sleep soundly through the night. But poachers are not the only midnight hunters. In the states public wilderness tracts  cattle ranches  and water courses  wildlife thieves are stealthily and silently tracked.  Most people have never imagined the often dicey  comical  and sometimes bizarre job of a Florida game warden. Backcountry Lawman tells what its like to catch an armed poacher in the actalone  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 fishingelectrocution of catfishhad the same outlaw mystique in the rivers of Florida as moonshining once did in the hills of Georgia and Tennessee.  With thirty years of backcountry patrol experience in Florida  Bob Lee has lived through incidents of legend  including one of the biggest environmental busts in Florida history. His fascinating memoir reveals the danger and the humor in the unsung exploits of game wardens.  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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45647136423989,"sku":"ByrdShop_0813044294","price":39.29,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780813044293.jpg?v=1781689017","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/backcountry-lawman-true-stories-from-a-florida-game-warden-the-florida-history-and-culture-series-9780813044293","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}