David H. Swendsen is a retired resource law enforcement officer. He was a Wisconsin Conservation Warden for eight years and, after over twenty years of federal service, retired as the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Special-Agent-in-Charge of the six state Northeastern Region. After federal retirement, he taught resource law enforcement at the University of New Hampshire, Wachusetts Community College, and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst for over eighteen years. From 1989 to April of 2010 he taught and directed the National Park Service's Ranger Law Enforcement program, using over 50