Everglades Lawmen
Subtitle: True Stories of Game Wardens in the Glades
Publisher: Pineapple Press, Inc.
Published: February 2000
Place of publication: Sarasota, Florida
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 243
ISBN-13: 9781561641925
Subjects: Nature; True Crime / Espionage; Game wardens; Everglades; Wildlife management; True Crime; Officials and employees; General; United States - State & Local - General; Environmental Conservation & Protection - General; Criminology; Dept. of Fish and Game; Florida; Florida.
Description: From the first game wardens in the Everglades, who had to buy their own uniforms and guns, to present-day wildlife officers, who often fulfill the role of police officers, law enforcement in the wild, untamed Everglades has kept pace with changing times.

You're just as likely to find today's game wardens chasing escaped convicts, keeping surveillance on drug runners, or recovering wreckage from a plane crash as arresting der, turkey, and alligator poachers.

Meet the men and women who have dedicated their lives to protecting the wildlife and natural resources in the only Everglades on Earth.

A few highlights: - A father fearlessly engages in a desparate tug-of-war to free his child from the jaws of a giant alligator.

- Gasoline-fed flames leap into the night sky after a jilted lover attempts to burn to death his girlfriend and her new companion in their Everglades hunt camp.

- Hours after a woman is savagely beaten and raped, her game warden husband uses his wilderness tracking skills to pursue and ultimately confront her assailant face-to-face.

- His hands wrapped around the deadly jaws of a seven-foot gator, a game warden falls out of his boat and plunges to the bottom of a lake with the predator still in his grasp.