The making of an ecologist : my career in Alaska wildlife management and conservation /

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This is an innovative and collaborative life history of one of Alaska's pioneering wildlife biologists. David R. Klein has been a leader in promoting habitat studies across wildlife research in Alaska, and this is his first-hand account of how science and biological fieldwork has been carried o...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Klein, David R. (Author)
Other Authors: Brewster, Karen (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Fairbanks, AK : University of Alaska Press, 2019.
Subjects:
Klein, David R.
Wildlife management > Alaska.
Ecologists > Alaska > Biography.
Wildlife conservation > Alaska.
Natural history > Alaska.
Écologistes > Alaska > Biographies.
Faune > Protection > Alaska.
Sciences naturelles > Alaska.
Ecologists
Ecology
Natural history
Wildlife conservation
Wildlife management
Alaska > Environmental conditions.
Alaska > Conditions environnementales.
Alaska
Biographies
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Early influences
  • A childhood outdoors during turbulent times
  • Time in the woods
  • Discovering Alaska, discovering self
  • Entrée into ecological fieldwork
  • Falling in love with the Alpine
  • Deer ecology and management in southeast rainforests
  • Research
  • The St. Matthew Islands : challenging conventional ecological wisdom
  • Leading the Alaska cooperative wildlife research unit and mentoring graduate students
  • Wildlife reactions to oil development
  • Ungulate research across the circum-arctic
  • Soviet-U.S. détente exchanges in arctic ecology
  • Expanding horizons beyond the Arctic
  • Managing wildlife in Alaska : territorial days, statehood, and the era of big oil
  • Not quite retired : staying connected to science
  • The human perspective
  • Walking in the footsteps of Aldo Leopold : a scientific legacy
  • Ethical considerations in caribou management
  • Valuing northern lands
  • Defining the wilderness concept
  • Environmental philosophy: people and the environment
  • Hunting ethics and the morality of hunting
  • On being objective
  • Alaska's people, economics, and resources.

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