This book is about the experiences of a young biologist who spent 33 years working for the State of Washington's Department of Game, starting in 1948. It is known today as the Department of Fish and Wildlife. These experiences include those of the author scrambling up tall stumps to avoid charging angry cow elk protecting their calves, wrestling mountain goats snared while coming to a salt lick, backpacking through the wilderness of Alaska's Kenai Peninsula in 1947, and patting a killer whale on the nose while monitoring Griffen and Goldsberry's whale capture operations in Puget Sound. Different, but always interesting, my work involved pointing out to garden clubs techniques to reduce damage to their rose beds by maundering deer, and explaining to the urban housewife why, every morning at daylight, a woodpecker is drumming on the downspout outside her bedroom window. Each portion of a chapter is complete unto itself, so pick it up and read any subject that looks interesting to you.