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| Defending Our Wildlife Heritage: The Life and Times of a Special Agent | 
| Author: Terry Grosz
Publisher: Johnson Books
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 597575
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 347
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 5.9 x 1
ISBN: 1555663168
Dewey Decimal Number: 363.28
EAN: 9781555663162
ASIN: 1555663168
Publication Date: September 2001
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"[A] swashbuckling account. To someone who interfaces infrequently with wildlife law enforcement, two things fairly leap from the pages of Groszs books. One is the unbridled fervor he and fellow officers exude for enforcing the nationss game laws. The other is the lengths to which some miscreants in the outdoor fraternity will go to break them. After you read his books, youll never look at a wildlife officer the same way again." Charlie Meyers, The Denver Post
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My Husband loved this book August 12, 2008
My husband is a Game Warden and I bought this for him. He could not put it down! He said it was very well written and very interesting. He then passed it along to his fellow officers, recommending it to all of them.
Nevadafalls January 7, 2008
The cover caught my eye, the title intrigued me, but the stories are like music to my soul.
 Tiny gets his groove back November 5, 2007
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
This is the third book in a series of memoirs by Terry "Tiny" Grosz, a six-foot four, 325-pound agent of the US Fish and Wildlife Service. As in the first two books, Grosz is a born raconteur with a lot of good stories to tell from his career as a game warden and wildlife agent.
In the first part of the book, Grosz lands a supervisory position in the Dakotas. He and his staff first tackle the problem of wetland easements. The US had paid farmers cash in the 1930s to protect wetlands on their lands in perpetuity (a protection taking the legal form of an "easement"). Unfortunately, as the economy improved, farmers began to drain and plow these wetlands, in violation of the easements. These easements had not been enforced until Grosz arrived, and it's interesting to see how he tackles the problem of enforcing a law that everyone breaks.
Then Grosz turns his attention to North Dakota's border with Canada. Large numbers of Americans hunt in Canada and apparently most of them violate Canadian and provincial laws. It's illegal to bring wildlife products into the US in violation of the laws of the land where they were taken, so Grosz has a field day catching violators. The best culprits are ingenious in finding places to hide their goods, but Grosz and his colleagues "fish" them out.
After this, Grosz gets a promotion to a desk job in DC, since he's complained too long about headquarters getting in the way of the field officers. He doesn't present the office politics well, and this part of the book drags. Then Grosz receives authority over US enforcement of the Convention on Trade in Endangered Species (CITES), which includes a two-month-long trip to southeast Asia. He's quite the ugly American, but his blunt styles seems to accomplish some things in Indonesia and the Philippines, while Hong Kong and Thailand run circles around him.
After the disappointment of his second book on ducks, ducks, and ducks, this book brings Grosz back to form. There's a nice variety of stories and he tells them well.
Strongly recommended for wildlife protection activists. March 28, 2002
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Defending Our Wildlife Heritage: The Life And Times Of A Special Agent is the autobiographical story of Terry Grosz, a man who worked and struggled for 32 years to protect wildlife in America. Poignant, emotion, filled with the travails of an endless struggle against human greed and carelessness, Defending Our Wildlife Heritage is a fascinating glimpse into the lives of those who labor so that future generations may share in the wonder of America's natural beauty and wildlife. Defending Our Wildlife Heritage is strongly recommended reading for nature enthusiasts, as well as environmental and wildlife protection activists.
Defending Our Wildlife Heritage November 10, 2001
I never cease to be amazed at Terry Grosz's books. All the stories in his 3d book describing the inner workings of a U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service Special Agent kept me interested and entertained. His stories were alive and action packed, they allowed me to cry, laugh and be amazed. Furthermore I learned a lot about wildlife (the best time to hunt ducks: Moon of the Duck) and how to preserve it (preserve the pot holes: Wetland Easement Wars). Keep up the great work Terry, can hardly wait to read your next book!
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