A Wilderness Within

About the Book

The Wilderness Within is a series of true adventures that decsribes man's journey into God's natural world. Author David Swendsen, having serves 21 years as a special agent for the Department of interior, amazes, edifies, and rewards readers; describing actual experiences and comic episodes that occured during his career as he dealt with all kinds of humans as they experienced their trips into Nature's outdoors. These actual wilderness journeys tell us of the interconnecting saga of all life on this planet.

the author vividly describes some of the strange animal antics experienced; such as a loon that thought he was a fish, and a bass that flew out of water.

When humans violate outdoor regulations, all their antics can backfire on them. Swendsen tells about the illegal hunter whose sweaty hads did him in, and the fellow officer who expected,  and got, "special" treatment.
To apprehend hardcore violators, the author says, "we win some, lose some", as he describes how dead fish can swim and how he is outrun by an old, habitual violator.
Priceless deputies include fellow fish and game personnel, such as forest ranger Major (the real first name) Mellen and his 90 pound black lab Midnight.

About the Author

David H. Swendsen is a retired resource law enforcement officer. He was a Wisconsin Conservation Warden for eight years, and retired from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service as Special Agent-in-Charge of the six State Northeastern Region, in Boston, after twenty -four years of federal service. After federal retirement, he taught resource law enforcement at The University of New Hampshire, Wachusetts Community College and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst for over eighteen years. From 1989 to April of 2009, he taught and directed the National Park Service's Seasonal Ranger Law Enforcement Program at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. This program is only one of nine 400+ hour such programs in the U.S. This program prepares its graduates to receive commissions as Seasonal National Park Rangers throughout the U.S. A graduate of the University of Wisconsin, Swendsen has written several Resource law enforcement books, including "Badge in the Wilderness," by Stackpole in 1984. His first novel, "Fault Island," was published by Ourskits Press in 2009.