Nature Noir: A Park Ranger's Patrol in the Sierra

by Jordan Fisher Smith

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"Nature Noir is the story -- part Barry Lopez, part James Ellroy -- of Jordan Fisher Smith"s fourteen years as a park ranger on a huge tract of government land in the Sierras. As Fisher Smith learns on his first patrol, the wildness in this place tends toward the human kind: desperate miners who scour canyons for gold, bad guys who look like armed rock-and-roll musicians, extreme recreators who enjoy combining motorcycles, parachutes, and high bridges. This gorgeous land along the American River is destined to be drowned by a huge federal dam, a paradox that colors every day...Read more
  • ISBN10 0547526490
  • ISBN13 9780547526492
  • Publish Date 3 May 2006 (first published 8 February 2005)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Imprint Mariner Books
  • Format eBook
  • Pages 224
  • Language English