Glen Hinshaw
1 book in the catalogue, published 2000.
Glen Hinshaw is a retired Colorado wildlife officer who wrote about the animals and the people he worked among. He spent 34 years with the Colorado Division of Wildlife, much of it in the San Juan country around Creede. Western Reflections Publishing carries one of his books, Crusaders for Wildlife, a history of wildlife stewardship in southwestern Colorado.
About Glen Hinshaw
The Durango Herald profiled Hinshaw in December 2014, when he was 73. He had wanted to be a wildlife officer since his teen years. His first district assignment came in 1963 in Cortez, where he supplied wildlife stories to newspapers and had a regular program on KVFC-AM radio. He spent 22 years in Creede, and he retired in 1997 from the Colorado Division of Wildlife after 34 years, as the division's education coordinator for the Western Slope.
The Herald lists several honors: Wildlife Officer of the Year in 1968, Conservationist of the Year from the Colorado Chapter of Trout Unlimited in 1985, and the Enos Mills Lifetime Achievement Award for Environmental Education from the Colorado Alliance for Environmental Education in 1997. He told the paper that the core challenge of the job is managing people. Besides Crusaders for Wildlife, the article describes his autobiography Echoes from the Mountains, which covers his years as a game warden from 1963 to 1997.
What the books share
Hinshaw's work stays close to one landscape and one subject. Crusaders for Wildlife looks at wildlife stewardship in southwestern Colorado, including the San Juan Mountains where he lived and worked. His memoir, as the Herald describes it, widens the picture to include school programs, search and rescue, and help for other law enforcement officers, not only poaching. The common thread is the relationship between people and the animals of the high country, seen by someone whose job was to look after both.
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Next steps for readers of this author
Weighing a wildlife career
Hinshaw's work shows what a long career in the field can involve. If that appeals, read the agency's mission and browse its careers link to see how the jobs are described today.
Spending a day in Creede
Start at the Visitor's Center, as the town's page suggests, and use the museum listings to build a day around the town's mining history. Confirm current hours with each place before you drive up.
Giving time to wildlife work
The agency's site lists volunteering among its ways to get involved. A reader moved by stories of stewardship can find out there whether a local project fits their schedule.
Go deeper
Hinshaw spent 22 years in Creede and worked for the state wildlife agency. Colorado Parks and Wildlife carries on that agency's work today, and Creede keeps its mining past on display in two museums.
Colorado Parks and Wildlife: What We Do
The agency's page on its mission to perpetuate the state's wildlife resources and run its state parks, with links to careers, volunteering and law enforcement.
Creede: Mines and Museums
The town's tourism page for a day of history, which begins at the Visitor's Center and covers the Historical Society museum and the mining museum.
Creede Underground Mining Museum
A museum and community center built completely underground. Its site says three Creede miners blasted it out of a solid rock cliff.
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