DREAM HUNTER is a series of recollections from the author's nearly fifty years of working with the National Wildlife Refuge System. They include his outdoor adventures and his experiences as a professional manager of several national wildlife refuges - stories about growing up in a small town on the Minnesota prairie, working as Forest Service fire-tower lookout, a Park Service fire fighter, a wilderness guide and as a wildlife manager in the Fish & Wildlife Service; about his escapades in the army, grassroots environmental activism, owning a hunting camp, living with bird dogs, saving a valley, wildlife management, game law enforcement and the politics of managing a national wildlife refuge.