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English
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"Ren is a park ranger, tasked with duties both mundane and thrilling: breaking up fights at campgrounds, saving tourists from moose attacks, and attempting to broker an uneasy peace between the wealthy vacationers who tromp around with cameras and the locals who want to carve out a meaningful living amid this western landscape. When Ren discovers his friend Hilly, a biologist and wolf expert, nearly dead in the steel jaws of a wolf trap, he hopes...
2) Ice hunter
Author
Series
Publisher
Lyons Press
Pub. Date
[2005], ©2001
Language
English
Description
Conservation officer Grady Service hears that his nemesis, the leader of an incestuous clan of poachers, is about to be released from prison at the same time as he must face a sinister conspiracy involving giants of industry and politics.
Author
Publisher
Dreamspinner Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"The South Pacific Archipelago is home to a tiny island community of around three hundred scientists... and twenty thousand dinosaurs. As a paleogeneticist, Kit Sterling leads a team studying the dinosaurs to unlock the unanswered questions of evolution. But there is something more dangerous than dinosaurs on the islands. Head ranger Logan Beck discovers evidence of poachers, while rumors of a black market for dinosaur leather swirl around the community....
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
"On a trek into the lush bamboo forests, Ryan is unexpectedly separated from his father. With the help of a young Chinese girl, he aims to bring to safety a baby panda that he's boldly taken away from heartless poachers. They'd better move fast, however: the poachers are coming after them and the baby panda cannot survive much longer without its mother."--Container.
Author
Series
Mike Bowditch novels volume 1
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Desperate and alone, game warden Mike Bowditch strikes up an uneasy alliance with a retired warden pilot, and together the two men journey deep into the Maine wilderness in search of a runaway fugitive--Mike's father. But the only way for Mike to save his father is to find the real killer--which could mean putting everyone he loves in the line of fire.
6) Sunrise
Author
Series
Sky King Ranch volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A decade after leaving his family's bush pilot operation to become a Pararescue Jumper, Dodge Kingston is back home in Alaska. He hadn't counted on meeting up again with Echo, a girl with a spirit as free as the sky. When she goes missing, he hopes all her skills will keep her safe until he can reach her-and that she'll accept his help when he does"--
Series
Publisher
Disney
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
The Rescuers down under: When a poacher sets out to capture a golden eagle in the outback of Australia, his friend Cody's call for help is answered by the world's bravest mice, Bernard and Bianca, who fly in on the wings of their albatross friend Wilbur to face their most dangerous mission yet.
The Rescuers: Two brave mice try to rescue a kidnapped young orphan from the hilariously evil Madame Medusa, who is obsessed with getting her hands on the...
Author
Series
Run with the wolf volume 2
Publisher
Sourcebooks Casablanca
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service agent Dylan Powers is on a mission in Silver Town to catch four men hunting illegally. With this heightened wolf senses, he's on their trail, but the hunters know he's coming. Dylan is nearly drowned and left to die, but he's rescued by local ski lodge owner Roxie Wolff. Things start to heat up between them when she takes him into her home to help him recover. Roxie and Dylan team up with the Silver Town sheriff's...
Author
Publisher
Catalyst Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Pearl has always felt more comfortable in the sea than surrounded by the people in her sleepy South African town who always seem to let her down. But when a new friend from below the surface is taken by poachers, Pearl may need a little help after all. Since her mother left, Pearl has spent more and more time in the ocean, fishing to help her father pay the bills. But when she gets mixed up with a group of illegal abalone poachers and starts diving...
10) Hollow beasts
Author
Series
Jodi Luna novels volume 1
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A New Mexico game warden finds herself in a race war that threatens to get personal. After her husband dies in a climbing accident, Officer Jodi Luna decides to leave Boston and her life in the academy to return to her familial roots. She even arranges to take her uncle Eloy Atencio's position as Rio Truchas County's game warden as he prepares to retire. Jodi is idealistic and proud to be working in an area that's meant so much to her family. Though...
11) Sea of shadows
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
In Mexico's Sea of Cortez, a group of dedicated scientists, high-tech activists, investigative journalists, and courageous undercover agents attempt to rescue the most endangered and elusive whale on Earth while battling the vicious Mexican drug cartels and Chinese traffickers whose destructive poaching methods are threatening the region's marine life.
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"It is 1886, and the government has given the US Cavalry control of Yellowstone. For widowed hotelier Kate Tremaine, the change is a welcome one. She knows every inch of her wilderness home like the back of her hand and wants to see it protected from poachers and vandals. Refused a guide by Congress, Lieutenant William Prescott must enlist Kate's aid to help him navigate the sprawling park and track down the troublemakers. But a secret from his past...
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