Just By Accident: Adventures of a Modern Vagabond provides an entertaining and unique look into the life of a modern wilderness vagabond. It is filled with true wilderness adventures encountered by "Backcountry Ben" and allows many of us to catch a glimpse of what lies beyond where most of us will ever go.
While Just By Accident: Adventures of a Modern Vagabond is autobiographical in nature, it is more than just the story of one man's life of travel and adventures in the backcountry. It is also about interpersonal relationships that were formed and fostered by Ben's odyssey in the wilderness.
It is about the forest ranger trekking the backcountry, manning a fire lookout, fighting a forest fire, or writing a recreational plan.
It is about the National Park Service employee riding horseback in one of our beautiful national parks and helping both young and old, novice and experienced, gain a greater enjoyment from the outdoors.
It is about the fish and game people who protect our wildlife from potential poachers; who improve habitat, conduct biological surveys, and collect data, not just on endangered species, but on the myriad of other creatures which inhabit our forests and wildlands.
It is about the entire guiding and tourist industry that brings people to visit our parks and forests, hopefully to return to their urban dwellings with a fresh point of view about nature.