Combat to Conservation

<p>In 1970 after growing up in the woods and fields of Southeast Minnesota Francis Fitzgerald finds himself as a young Marine in the middle of one of the longest and bloodiest conflicts his country has ever fought. Thoughts of college and becoming a game warden are gone as daily life becomes a battle of survival. Hot jungle sun monsoon rains snakes and leeches and the ever-present threat of enemy ambushes take a toll on a nineteen-year-old's mind and body. But the biggest battle looms ahead. </p><p>How does one heal the body and soul after living in that unimaginable world? No one is ever the same. Is anything worth the fight anymore? In <em>Combat to Conservation</em> Fitzgerald explains how wilderness became his closest ally his medicine and his only hope.</p>