I Took Down Outlaws, Poachers, and Plenty of Politicians in My 22 Years as Chief Game Warden

I Took Down Outlaws, Poachers, and Plenty of Politicians in My 22 Years as Chief Game Warden

This story, “Poachers, Politics, and Perils: An Old Warden Remembers,” appeared in the March 1974 issue of Outdoor Life. The muzzle of a rifle grows bigger and blacker when you have an eye-level view three feet from your face and the outlaw behind it means business. The man who confronts it is looking at death. That’s how it was with Forest Ranger J. W. Johnson one November afternoon in the remote Pecos high country of northern New Mexico. Deer …