Follows an urban park ranger as he tends to the ponds, fountains, plants, and animals in his care and teaches people about the parks that form an exciting outdoor classroom.

Agent Kevin Kerney of the Fish and Game Department investigates wildlife smuggling and murder in the Gila wilderness of New Mexico. The probe collides with an FBI undercover operation. By the author of Tularosa.

Navajo journalist Katherine James and park ranger Gabriel Rossiter risk both their hearts and their lives to stop a faceless enemy from trying to keep Native Americans off of Mesa Butte, land the Navajo consider sacred.

An account of the author's experiences, observations, and reflections as a seasonal park ranger in southeast Utah. When Desert Solitaire was first published in 1968, it became the focus of a nationwide cult. Rude and sensitive. Thought-provoking and mystical. Angry and loving. Both Abbey and this book are all of these and more. Here, the legendary author of The Monkey Wrench Gang, Abbey's Road and many other critically acclaimed books vividly captures...

"Brought in as chief investigator when a party of campers go missing, 32-year-old Felicity Harland must place her trust in a Navy SEAL turned park ranger when the investigation takes them from the wilderness to the streets of Los Angeles where the grisly truth comes to light"--

Describes the work of researchers in America's national parks, as they study geysers, grizzly bears, Gila monsters, salamanders, cacti, and fireflies.

Edward Abbey (1927-1989) was born in Home, Pennsylvania. He received graduate and postgraduate degrees from the University of New Mexico, and attended the University of Edinburgh. He worked for a time as a forest ranger and was a committed naturalist and a fierce environmentalist; such was his anger, eloquence, and action on the subject that he has become a heroic, almost mythic figure to a whole host of environmental groups and literally millions...