Autor: David H. Swendsen

David H. Swendsen is a retired resource law enforcement officer. He was a Wisconsin Conservation Warden for eight years and retired as the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Agent-in-Charge of the Six State Northeastern Region, in Boston, after over twenty 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 2010, he taught and directed, using over 50 selected instructors, the National Park Service’s 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. It 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 Outskits Press in 2009. His latest novel, A Real Nightmare, was published by Xlibris in 2010.