After graduation from the Ontario Forest Ranger School in 1967, Mike Hart was about to leave Canada to begin a forestry career in Australia when he was recruited as a Conservation Officer by the Ontario Department of Lands and Forests. Transferred to the Moosonee Deputy Chief Ranger Base, the author began a fish and wildlife law enforcement and management career that would take him from the Hudson Bay and James Bay frontiers to the magnificent Ottawa and St. Lawrence Rivers flowing through rural and urban south eastern Ontario.