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Game Wars: The Undercover Pursuit of Wildlife Poachers
Reveals how U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service agents fight poachers with careful, sometimes dangerous, undercover work and focuses on Dave Hall, an agent who singlehandedly took on the Alaska ivory trade
304 pages, Paperback
Published January 1, 1992
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Marc Reisner
10 books51 followersMarc Reisner was an American environmentalist and writer best known for his book Cadillac Desert, a history of water management in the American West.
He was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the son of a lawyer and a scriptwriter, and graduated from Earlham College in 1971. For a time he was on the staffs of Environmental Action and the Population Institute in Washington, D.C. Starting in 1972, he worked for seven years as a staff writer and director of communications for the Natural Resources Defense Council in New York. In 1979 he received an Alicia Patterson Journalism Fellowship, which enabled him to conduct research and write Cadillac Desert, which was first published in 1986.[3] The book was a finalist for both the National Book Critics' Circle Award and the Bay Area Book Reviewers' Award (BABRA) that same year. In 1999, a Modern Library panel of authors and critics included it on a list of the 100 most notable English-language works of nonfiction of the 20th century. It was later made into a documentary film series that premiered nationwide on PBS nationwide in 1997 and won a Columbia University/Peabody Award.
He went on to write additional books and helped develop a PBS documentary on water management. He was featured as an interviewee in Stephen Ives's 1996 PBS documentary series The West, which was produced by Ken Burns. In 1997 he published a discussion paper for the American Farmland Trust on water policy and farmland protection. Shortly before he died, he had won a Pew Charitable Trusts Fellowship to support efforts to restore Pacific salmon habitat through dam removal.
Reisner was also involved in efforts to promote sustainable agronomy and green entrepreneurship. In 1990, in partnership with the Nature Conservancy, he co-founded the Ricelands Habitat Partnership, an innovative program designed to enhance waterfowl habitat on California farmlands and reduce pollution by flooding rice fields in winter instead of burning the rice straw, as was then the common practice.[5] He also joined in efforts to help California rice farmers develop eco-friendly products from compressed rice straw, and a separate project to promote water conservation through water transfers and groundwater banking.
For a time, Reisner was a Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of California at Davis, lecturing on the relationship between urbanization and environmental concerns.
Reisner died of colon cancer in 2000 at his home in San Anselmo, California, survived by his wife, biochemist Lawrie Mott, and their two daughters. His final book, A Dangerous Place, was completed before his death but did not appear in print until 2003.
He was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the son of a lawyer and a scriptwriter, and graduated from Earlham College in 1971. For a time he was on the staffs of Environmental Action and the Population Institute in Washington, D.C. Starting in 1972, he worked for seven years as a staff writer and director of communications for the Natural Resources Defense Council in New York. In 1979 he received an Alicia Patterson Journalism Fellowship, which enabled him to conduct research and write Cadillac Desert, which was first published in 1986.[3] The book was a finalist for both the National Book Critics' Circle Award and the Bay Area Book Reviewers' Award (BABRA) that same year. In 1999, a Modern Library panel of authors and critics included it on a list of the 100 most notable English-language works of nonfiction of the 20th century. It was later made into a documentary film series that premiered nationwide on PBS nationwide in 1997 and won a Columbia University/Peabody Award.
He went on to write additional books and helped develop a PBS documentary on water management. He was featured as an interviewee in Stephen Ives's 1996 PBS documentary series The West, which was produced by Ken Burns. In 1997 he published a discussion paper for the American Farmland Trust on water policy and farmland protection. Shortly before he died, he had won a Pew Charitable Trusts Fellowship to support efforts to restore Pacific salmon habitat through dam removal.
Reisner was also involved in efforts to promote sustainable agronomy and green entrepreneurship. In 1990, in partnership with the Nature Conservancy, he co-founded the Ricelands Habitat Partnership, an innovative program designed to enhance waterfowl habitat on California farmlands and reduce pollution by flooding rice fields in winter instead of burning the rice straw, as was then the common practice.[5] He also joined in efforts to help California rice farmers develop eco-friendly products from compressed rice straw, and a separate project to promote water conservation through water transfers and groundwater banking.
For a time, Reisner was a Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of California at Davis, lecturing on the relationship between urbanization and environmental concerns.
Reisner died of colon cancer in 2000 at his home in San Anselmo, California, survived by his wife, biochemist Lawrie Mott, and their two daughters. His final book, A Dangerous Place, was completed before his death but did not appear in print until 2003.
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April 27, 2018
James Bond in a lumberjack shirt. A great read and a provocative look at how much poaching impacts our open spaces.
March 19, 2019
A great book highlighting the many threats faced by rangers in their line of duty, while bringing to light the various wildlife-related crimes happening in and around the United States.
October 14, 2011
Reisner provides some interesting insight into the world of poaching in the United States. I was not aware of how much poaching went on domestically, and naively thought it was a problem that restricted itself to Africa. Perhaps the most shocking revelations from this book, in my opinion, are those dealing with the ivory trade. Parallels can be drawn between ivory and any other drug trade, from the deals made on the down-low, to the kingpins that run the trade, and to the major busts that temporarily slow the market.
Although this book is now quite a few years old, I still found it to be an interesting and educational read. The book mainly deals with alligators, ivory, and saccalait, but Reisner also writes about extinction and man's impact on nature.
Although this book is now quite a few years old, I still found it to be an interesting and educational read. The book mainly deals with alligators, ivory, and saccalait, but Reisner also writes about extinction and man's impact on nature.
December 27, 2008
"an unprecedented and explosive report from the front lines of the battle to save the world's endangered species..." Now that sounds more like a book I would like, I am giving it a try.
June 15, 2008
Entertaining look into the invisible world of game poachers.
Not on the same level as Cadillac Desert, but what is.
An excellent if depressing read.
Not on the same level as Cadillac Desert, but what is.
An excellent if depressing read.
August 15, 2013
Great book. Reisner tells some incredible stories of game wardens and the largely-unknown world of wildlife poachers across the United States. Really cool stuff.
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