The author, a special agent for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, discusses his activities investigating the smuggling of wildlife, illegal commercialization of wildlife, illegal take of wildlife, and illegal commercialization of the parts and products of wildlife.

In "Wildlife Wars," Terry Grosz serves up fascinating stories-alternately hair-raising, hilarious, and heart-wrenching-from his 30-year struggle to protect wildlife in America. A natural storyteller, Grosz writes about the remarkable characters he met-on both sides of the law-as he matched wits with elk poachers, salmon snaggers, commercial-market duck hunters, and a host of other law-breakers. Best of all, though, these stories are so remarkably entertaining you won't want to put them down. Wildlife Wars is the winner of the 2000 National Outdoor Book Award, Nature and the Environment Category.

A historical rediscovery of one of the heroic founders of the conservation movement who was also one of the most infamous racists in American history