

We don't get nearly enough time with the Pickett clan. But Joe has a job and he's doing to do it right, no matter what feathers he ruffles. No one at Yellowstone is happy to have yet one more person poking around there. Joe's a Game Warden again, but one at large. But he'd like Joe to go down and take a look, reporting to him, so Rulon can tell voters he looked into it. Rulon's hands have been tied and he can't do anything about it.

Someone figured out a weird loophole in the overlapping state and federal laws that govern the area of Yellowstone National Forest, and shot and killed several people and was unable to be prosecuted for it. He liked Joe the first time they met, and he's pretty sure that Joe is the kind of straight-arrow he can count on. Sure, Marybeth's business is doing pretty well, but it's not the same. He's working on his father-in-law's ranch, trying to make it by (his family no longer lives in state property, either). This originally appeared at The Irresponsible Reader.Īs it appeared certain at the end of In Plain Sight, Joe was fired as a Game Warden.
