An Hour Before Dawn

Now for the first time, Dennis Anderson--outdoors editor for the St. Paul Pioneer Press--brings the best of his columns together in An Hour Before Dawn: Stories of the Outdoors. He features the series "Empty Skies: Ducks in Crisis," for which he was honored as a Pulitzer Prize finalist. The columns deal with controversial duck hunting laws along major migration routes all the way from Mexico to Louisiana, to the Upper Midwest and Canada. With a keen investigative eye, Anderson documents the criminal overbagging of ducks in these areas and follows developments in the decline of the waterfowl population.