Backcountry Lawman: True Stories from a Florida Game Warden (Florida History and Culture), by Bob H Lee
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First Place, Florida Outdoor Writers Association Excellence in Craft Award “High speed chases, shootouts, monkey-fishing, and being urinated on: is Backcountry Lawman a thrilling non-fiction book or just a really good Saturday night?”—Florida Book Review "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 state’s 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 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. 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.
Backcountry Lawman: True Stories from a Florida Game Warden (Florida History and Culture), by Bob H Lee- Amazon Sales Rank: #622603 in Books
- Brand: Lee, Bob H.
- Published on: 2015-03-31
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.00" h x .53" w x 6.00" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 256 pages
Review “As thrilling as any Indiana Jones epic.”—Florida Times-Union“Pure joy to read. . . . Backcounty Lawman has something for everybody, including white-knuckle boat chases in the dark, surveillance on bird poachers, deer decoy operations, and even an entertaining, yet important, pollution case.”—International Game Warden“A fast, fun read that anyone who has spent much time in the Florida outdoors will thoroughly enjoy.”—Fishing Wire“Lee . . . tells quite a story. As he relates his experiences you feel like you are sitting beside him in his 18-foot fiberglass ‘Old Timer’ patrol boat.”—Panama City News Herald“Entertaining, enlightening and occasionally hilarious.”—Outdoor Wire“Between the flat out laughs is a glimpse into what can be a deadly job.”—St. Augustine Record“An inside look at the sometimes amusing and sometimes scary things game wardens must do to catch fish and wildlife law violators.”—Sun Sentinel“Details the many cat and mouse games poachers and game wardens play, featuring interesting real-life characters on both sides of the law who are constantly changing their tactics to stay one step ahead of the other.”—Woods ‘n Water
About the Author 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.
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful. Poachers, Gators, and Boats, Oh My! By NL Quatrano Bob Lee's book is a hoot. Entertaining, enlightening, and educational, the stories retold about his years as a Florida Game Warden made me laugh, scratch my head in amazement, and stand in awe of the men and women who do what game wardens do. Even though I was aware of some of the gaming laws and seasons, I didn't know the reasoning behind many of them, which is conservation. Florida is my adopted home and I'll admit I tend to stay away from swamps and marshes, but if I was lost on a river, I'd sure want to know that someone would do whatever they could to get me home safely. And, the respectful peek into the world and psyche of poachers was interesting, too.This book is one that should be read by anyone interested in our environment, the backwaters and backwoods of Florida, and anybody with a passion for law enforcement. These folks are not on the mainstream map, but their work, passion and commitment for what they do shouldn't be disregarded. Thanks for an easy-to-read and fun book!
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. Outstanding expose of Florida's multimillion dollar poaching racket By Jack Owen Florida Game Warden Bob H. Lee's book Backcountry Lawman, (University Press of Florida), is the quintessential insider book with appeal to hunter, poacher, environmentalist and armchair voyeur alike. Lee, who retired from the GFC (Florida Game & Fresh Water Fish Commision) as a Lieutenant following 30 years patrolling the St. Johns River and wilderness surrounding it. He spent seven years writing for trade, general and specialty publications while compiling this book of his exploits. A stickler for detail, Lee's natural story-telling ability is fact-filled and fun, and a good read for fans on either side of the law. Hidden within the macho memories is an outstanding yarn of dogged persistence in the historic case of the “Choo-Choo-Poo-Poo”. That nasty incident which spoiled a nun's pleasant day fishing under a railroad bridge, resulted in a multimillion dollar Congressional Act, forcing Amtrack to update its Lincoln-era method of passenger human-waste disposal. All manner of methods and weapons from a hand-cranked telephone-box sending an electric charge into the water to stun fish, to a pizza delivery-van to mow down roadside grazing deer , were used to capture and kill wildlife. Lee was fired at in the field, and his home driveway sabotaged by foes scattering roofing-nails - which played heck to his private and work vehicle tires. It doesn't seem to matter what uniform lawmen wear. As Gilbert and Sullivan noted: “A policeman's lot is not a happy one.” Unless you're reading about it.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. Backcountry Lawman is wonderful By elisabeth virnstein "Backcountry" doesn't come close to describing the setting of this wonderful memoir; the places where author and game warden Bob Lee tried to catch poachers and enforce hunting and fishing laws might better be called the middle of nowhere, the boondocks, or the hinterlands. Whatever you call the setting, you won't believe the thieving characters that Lee encounters or the methods they use to catch fish and deer far beyond legal limits. You will be astonished by the very real dangers Lee's work entails--in fact, you'll see him nearly killed in the first chapter, drive "black" (without headlights) on narrow roads, miscalculate and drive his patrol boat out of a creek and into a clump of cypress, and suffer the payback of nails constantly scattered across his driveway.I'm neither a hunter nor fisherman, never poached anything in my life except eggs for breakfast, and make it a particular habit to avoid danger, so my life doesn't intersect much with Bob's comical and suspenseful narrative. Whatever your background, you will enjoy an abundance of lively, personal, crazy adventures, as well as a view of, and a sincere appreciation for, the men and women who serve (for abysmal pay and difficult working conditions) the conservation mission of the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.
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