continuing our coverage on redding's literary culture, we speak with author steve callen about his time as a game warden in the state of california. >> i group up as the son of a game warden, and so the first -- my teenage years i spent a lot of the time riding on patrol with my dad. so i had all these great adventures working with him as well, so that's where the name of the book came. and then later on i became a fish and game warden myself, and then i continued wring

continuing our coverage on redding's literary culture, we speak with author steve callen about his time as a game warden in the state of california. >> i group up as the son of a game warden, and so the first -- my teenage years i spent a lot of the time riding on patrol with my dad. so i had all these great adventures working with him as well, so that's where the name of the book came. and then later on i became a fish and game warden myself, and then i continued writing stories about my generation of fish and wildlife officers. so the book is called "the game warden's son." being with my dad during those years when he was a game warden was like having a storybook childhood. i did things that most kids would dream of. he was, when he started out, he was on what they call marine patrol, and his duty was patrolling the channel, the california channel islands which are fantastic, ask they're anywhere from, like, 26 miles across the sea like the song says or clear out in, you know, way out in the ocean. so i got to go on these excursions or these patrols out into the, out into the channel