Nature Noir: A Park Ranger's Patrol in the Sierra – An Honest 14-Year Memoir of Violence and Danger in Wilderness Protection
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Nature Noir: A Park Ranger's Patrol in the Sierra – An Honest 14-Year Memoir of Violence and Danger in Wilderness Protection
A nature book unlike any other, Jordan Fisher Smith's startling account of fourteen years as a park ranger thoroughly dispels our idealized visions of life in the great outdoors. Instead of scout troops and placid birdwatchers, Smith's beat -- a stretch of land that has been officially condemned to be flooded -- brings him into contact with drug users tweaked out to the point of violence, obsessed miners, and other dangerous creatures. In unflinchingly honest prose, he reveals the unexpectedly dark underbelly of patrolling and protecting public lands.
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