 | Wildlife Wars: The Life and Times of a Fish and Game Warden by Terry Grosz
Buy used from: $15.02 "Tiny" Grosz was a long-time game warden, starting his career in California. This is his first book and may be his best.
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 | Blind Descent (Anna Pigeon Mysteries) by Nevada Barr
Buy used from: $0.01 This is my favorite Anna Pigeon mystery. It's a classic closed-room mystery with a novel setting, far underground in Carlsbad Caverns. Barr does a great job describing caving.
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 | The Thin Green Line: Outwitting Poachers, Smugglers, And Market Hunters by Terry Grosz
Buy used from: $12.00 Grosz becomes a regional law enforcement director and sees the scale of wildlife destruction.
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 | No Safe Refuge: Man As Predator in the World of Wildlife by Terry Grosz
Buy new: $15.00 / Used from: $0.75 Tiny Grosz moves up the career path at the US Fish and Wildlife Service, working on endangered species, international trade in wildlife, as well as continuing to catch poachers and wetlands violators in the Dakotas.
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 | Track of the Cat (An Anna Pigeon Novel) by Nevada Barr
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 A good mystery set in Guadeloupe Mountain National Park, one of the best in this series.
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 | Defending Our Wildlife Heritage: The Life and Times of a Special Agent by Terry Grosz
Buy new: $15.39 / Used from: $5.00 These memoirs of a game warden cover a mix of stories, including a little undercover work, but are dominated by hunters of ducks and other waterfowl.
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 | A Sword for Mother Nature: The Further Adventures of a Fish and Game Warden by Terry Grosz
Buy new: $12.24 / Used from: $8.22 With this book, Tiny Grosz's memoirs of a game warden cease to be chronological. He still has good stories, but they don't follow the same logical progression as in other books.
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 | Nature Noir: A Park Ranger's Patrol in the Sierra by Jordan Fisher Smith
Buy new: $11.16 / Used from: $0.01 The memoirs of a state park ranger working a park that is scheduled to be flooded by a dam. He's a good writer working a dark beat.
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 | Deep South (An Anna Pigeon Novel) by Nevada Barr
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 Fictional ranger Anna Pigeon works the Natchez Trace in Mississippi. Author Barr loves the setting but I'm not convinced. The story is one of the best in this series.
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 | Borderline (Anna Pigeon) by Nevada Barr
Buy new: $17.13 / Used from: $4.50 Classic Anna Pigeon mystery, set in Big Bend National Park, Texas.
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 | A Superior Death (An Anna Pigeon Novel) by Nevada Barr
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.07 Park Ranger Anna Pigeon works the deep, cold water around Isle Royale National Park in this murder mystery.
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 | For Love of Wildness: The Journal of a U.S. Game Management Agent by Terry Grosz
Buy new: $12.24 / Used from: $7.49 Game warden Tiny Grosz goes after waterfowl hunters in this book--too much ducks for my taste, lacking the variety of his other books.
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 | Liberty Falling (Anna Pigeon Mysteries) by Nevada Barr
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 Fictional park ranger Anna Pigeon goes to Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty.
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 | Hard Truth (An Anna Pigeon Novel) by Nevada Barr
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 A mystery set in Rocky Mountain NP, with repeated visits to the Bear Lake-Odessa Lake-Fern Lake loop. A good story but it will be too disturbing for many readers.
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 | Hey Ranger!: True Tales of Humor & Misadventure from America's National Parks by Jim Burnett
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $2.00 Lots of short anecdotes from a national park ranger. Not as rich as most of the other books on this list.
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 | Park Ranger True Stories from a Ranger's Career in America's National Parks by Nancy Eileen Muleady-Mecham
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $3.20 Mostly paramedic rescue stories told in a matter-of-fact way.
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 | High Country (An Anna Pigeon Novel) by Nevada Barr
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 I didn't find this Anna Pigeon murder mystery, set in Yosemite, at all convincing.
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