Fire and Fauna : Tales of a Life Untamed /

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"Wildlife biologist and gopher tortoise expert Joan E. Berish has spent her life studying and appreciating animals. From Fire to Fauna is a unique, educational, and often humorous memoir reflecting the life of a woman in the field of wildlife conservation and her associated escapades early in l...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Berish, Joan E. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: College Station : Texas A & M University Press, [2019]
Edición:First edition.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Berish, Joan E., > 1950-
Zoologists.
Wildlife conservationists.
Wildlife conservation.
Faune > Protection > Floride.
Gopherus polyphemus > Conservation > Floride.
Defenseurs de la faune > Floride > Biographies.
Zoologistes > Floride > Biographies.
Wildlife conservation > Florida.
Gopher tortoise > Conservation > Florida.
Wildlife conservationists > Florida > Biography.
Zoologists > Florida > Biography.
Florida.
Biographies.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part 1. Evolution of a "wild biologist": Child of the fields and forests
  • A horse, a horse: my kingdom (lunch money) for a horse
  • Would dog bite (mail) woman?
  • Going nuclear at the Veterans Administration
  • Canines and felines and ... Willie Nelson?
  • Whirlybirds and conflagrations: My summer as a helitack firefighter
  • Part 2. Metamorphosis: from snake lady to gopher queen: Indigo daze: The snake lady goes down to Georgia
  • Ancient dunes, black holes, and burrowing turtles
  • A new life partner and many more moons of gopher wrangling
  • Rattlers and softshells and bears, oh my!
  • Canines in conservation and in my heart
  • Part 3. Modifications to my home range, both temporary and permanent: Misadventures on desert trails and high seas
  • My return to the land of enchantment.

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