The Cost of Being Green Before Green was Cool

About the Book

In April of ‘93 and March of ‘97 the editors of Western Outdoor News took the California Department of Fish and Game to task for under-reporting mountain lion involvement in disappearances. University of Idaho Statistic Professor Kirk Trigsted conducted Permutation Tests on multiple disappearances in nine different areas of Ca. that clearly rejected that they were random events. In each of the nine all had vanished during time-frames and in areas that could have encompassed the life span and the home range of a single cougar. Letter from Marv Hagedorn Idaho District 20’s representative, “Regarding the information you have been putting together on the Mule Deer herds here in …SW.[Idaho]. I agree we are selling tags for a product that does not exist and have been doing it for a very long time. Following his only conviction, the author and his receptionists passed polygraph tests disputing the three arresting officer’s testimonies that he was at his shop the day in question, and had individually confessed his guilt to each of them. Moreover Warden Stegall in his affidavit claimed that the author signed the evidence receipt. However the document contains only Donna his receptionist’s signature. Despite the conviction, which focused on bighorn sheep, San Bernardino National Forest’s head wildlife biologist Steve N Loe, giving him the combinations to the areas locked gates authorized the author, on July 30th of ‘92, to survey the San Gabriel Mountain’s Nelson Bighorn populations. California Legislator Bill Leonard after the author forced a rollback in D-14’s hunting dates wrote, “It is commendable that citizens such as yourself feel so strongly that you help bring about actions by government agencies.”

About the Author

Born on Dec. 26th 1936 in Delmont Pennsylvania he graduated from Greensburg High in 1954. Was a member of the California Carpenter and Millwright Union for seven years, a taxidermist for nearly 30, a General Contractor for 25, a commercial trapper for 12 and owned a sporting goods store for nearly two. In the early nineties he was incarcerated for allegedly threating a judge and held with a no bail clause for four months before being vindicated. He graduated from Victor Valley Jr. College in 1999, attended Montana State at Bozeman for two semesters and the University of Idaho at Moscow for six years graduating with a near 3.5 GPA in 2006. Holds Bachelor degrees in Wildlife Biology, Mass Media and Journalism graduating from Moscow’s University of Idaho in 2006. He’s a member of Phi Theta Kappa Society, a member of the College of Natural Resources Society and holds a Xi Sigma Pi (Forest Resources Scholarship Achievement Award}. He also worked closely with the Ca. F&G and U. S. Forestry in the eighties and nineties in Southern California on deer and bighorn surveys.