Wilderness Justice (Game Warden, Randy Waters)

This is the second in a series of stories featuring game warden Randy Waters. Trinidad, Colorado is the setting where game poachers kill many animals, take certain body parts, and then leave the carcass to rot. Randy is determined to stop the killing, but his first encounter with the poachers almost leaves him dead. He captures one of the men after a gun battle but the other escapes into the mountains. Winter blankets the land and the second poacher has disappeared. Some clues lead Randy and a sheriff to a summer mountaintop retreat in which the poacher has been hiding for months. Randy has to chase the suspect across the winter landscape where he is finally brought to justice by a forest creature. Randy witnesses the death of the poacher and has to come to terms with his own feelings about Wilderness Justice.