Ramblings of a Lowcountry Game Warden: A Memoir

List of Illustrations

Illustrations Charleston to Beaufort xvi Charleston to Georgetown xviii A coastal marshscape 2 Writing a ticket 3 Conservation officer’s shoulder patch and badge 6 On patrol in Price Inlet 14 Poster by cartoonist Bill Thompson 19 Marsh-hen hunters about to commit a violation 23 Semipalmated sandpipers shot by mistake 29 Oystermen on the Chechessee River 34 Bagging oysters on Little Bull Island 35 Shrimp trawler captain Andrew Magwood 39 Long-handled clam tongs 43 Waterman Ike Coakley 46 Channel netters with illegally set nets 50 Sturgeon and shad caught in legally set gill nets 59 Standing by a rice-field trunk 66 On offshore patrol during the shrimp season 68 Checking a loggerhead turtle caught by a shrimp trawler 69 Jumping off a trawler at sea 74 With an outboard motorboat seized for trawling at night 75 In a Boston Whaler rigged for a long patrol 90 Shellfish-grading device 91 Grading conchs 92 Working as an undercover investigator 96 Shrimp trawler captain Junior Magwood and friends 106 On the beach during Hurricane David, September 1979 108 Sergeant Moïse in winter uniform 112 x Illustrations Crime-scene drawing used in an illegal-trapping trial 134 On duck patrol in Hope Creek 138 A narrow marsh creek in the Santee Delta 141 Throwing out a bait scrape 148 With Cane Island decoy carver Tom Beckham 150 With Terry Cumbee and twenty-four seized ducks 172 With Cub Scout “Ree” Ravenel 184 With Tommy Strange and Sam Hiott on an airboat 186 Taking a sick egret to the veterinarian 194 Capturing an alligator with Officer Terry Cumbee 195 Holding a three-foot alligator 196 At the wading-bird rookery on Drum Island 202 Taking data from a stranded bottlenose dolphin on Sullivan’s Island 205 Observing a nesting loggerhead with Locky Freeman 214 Federal game warden Garland Swain with loggerhead turtle eggs 220 Examining a sailboat used for marijuana smuggling 225 On patrol during the raising of the CSS Hunley 228 ...