Tales From The Deer Blind: A Game Warden's Memoir

The year was 1977. The internet had not yet come to be. Cell phones were not even a concept. GPS and satellite navigation were years down the road of development and nautical travel was described in terms of compass deviation, dead reckoning and chart plotting.Law enforcement communication was comprised of 5 watt hand held radios, tube/transistor type mobile radios, and station to station radios at the district offices. Text messaging was several decades in the future. And Menominee County was a sportsman's paradise.Fresh from the police academy, Conservation Officer Wayne Coleman is about to embark upon the adventure of a lifetime. His lifelong dream of becoming a Game Warden has been realized with his assignment in the forests and farming country of Michigan's Upper Peninsula. During the next quarter century many changes and developments make his career varied and exciting. Wild Turkeys are introduced into his county.Increased populations of Black Bear bring more hunters, new challen