ISBN: 0-88240-573-X. Alaska Northwest Books. Copyright 2004. Softcover. 223 pages. 5.5" x 8.25" x .75". 22 B & W photos. 2 Maps.

(From the back cover of the book)  The Man Behind the Badge
Take to the air with veteran Bush pilot and game warden Ray Tremblay in these lively adventure stories of Alaska's early game-law enforcement. During a career spanning nearly thirty years, Tremblay earned the respect of his fellow pilots and game cops, as well as biologists, trappers, hunters and fishermen who appreciated his sincere concern for the protection and wise use of the fish and wildlife in the Territory, then State of Alaska.

Gifted with humor, common sense, and uncommon storytelling ability, Tremblay offers two dozen remarkable first-person accounts that are worthy of laugh-aloud and read-aloud status - to the guy in the next room.

...an inviting mixture of history and memoir, with man an engaging anecdote about Alaska before and immediately after statehood. Tremblay loves Bush Alaska and loved his work, especially flying, for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. he brings to life an Alaska that now is only a memory. -Michael Carey Former Anchorage Daily News Editorial Page Editor

Tough Cop. Fine Friend. Good Guy. Ray Tremblay is guilty as charged on all accounts. One of my very few heroes and favorite people. ...Ray can spin a yarn with the best of them...and make you believe it's all true. -Jay Hammond Governor of Alaska, 1974-82

After retiring to Anchorage, Ray Tremblay stayed active in the summer with commercial fishing for halibut and sportfishing for salmon. In winters, he was busy traveling and writing. he and his wife, Elsie, were married for fifty years and had six children and eleven grandchildren. Sadly, Ray passed away in August 2004, one month before the release of On Patrol.

Table of Contents

Foreword
Map
Introduction

Part I: The 1950's: Enforcing Federal Game Laws in the Territory of Alaska

Chapter   1 The making of a Flying Game Warden
Chapter   2 Modus Operandi
Chapter   3 Think Like a Beaver
Chapter   4 For the Want of Snowshoes
Chapter   5 The Gullwing Stinson
Chapter   6 Capture of the Ble Parka Bandit & Other Trapline Patrols
Chapter   7 Wildlife Surveys: Low Flying, Quick Thinking
Chapter   8 Married to the Fish & Wildlife Service
Chapter   9 Balancing Acts
Chapter 10 The Quiet Men
Chapter 11 What Happened to Charlie Woods
Chapter 12 Lawless Valley
Chapter 13 Wolf Control
Chapter 14 Dog Shoots Man & Other Wildlife Stories
Chapter 15 Victims of Circumstance
Chapter 16 Search and Rescue
Chapter 17 Engine Failure
Chapter 18 Legal Beaver

Part II: The 1960's: Big Changes in a Baby State

Chapter 19 The Duck War
Chapter 20 Check Ride Unsatisfactory
Chapter 21 What Went Wrong?
Chapter 22 A Royal Pain
Chapter 23 Surveys with the DC-3
Chapter 24 The Grumman Goose
Chapter 25 The protectors Versus the Spoilers