Fire and fauna : tales of a life untamed /
Berish, Joan E.,
Fire and fauna : tales of a life untamed / Joan E. Berish. - First edition. - College Station : Texas A&M University Press, (c)2019. - 1 online resource (x, 235 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates) - Integrative natural history series .
Series information from dust jacket.
Includes bibliographies and index.
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.
"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 life and today. Berish recounts her eventful and sometimes absurd journey to become a wildlife researcher. Outrunning treetop flames, spending a night in jail with a threatened species, and surviving a stalled airplane engine while searching for a missing tortoise, Berish introduces readers to the adventures, triumphs, and heartbreaks that comprise a lifetime of working with animals, animals, both domestic and wild"--
9781623498320
Berish, Joan E., 1950-
Zoologists--Florida--Biography.
Wildlife conservationists--Florida--Biography.
Gopher tortoise--Conservation--Florida.
Wildlife conservation--Florida.
Electronic Books.
QL31 / .F574 2019
Fire and fauna : tales of a life untamed / Joan E. Berish. - First edition. - College Station : Texas A&M University Press, (c)2019. - 1 online resource (x, 235 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates) - Integrative natural history series .
Series information from dust jacket.
Includes bibliographies and index.
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.
"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 life and today. Berish recounts her eventful and sometimes absurd journey to become a wildlife researcher. Outrunning treetop flames, spending a night in jail with a threatened species, and surviving a stalled airplane engine while searching for a missing tortoise, Berish introduces readers to the adventures, triumphs, and heartbreaks that comprise a lifetime of working with animals, animals, both domestic and wild"--
9781623498320
Berish, Joan E., 1950-
Zoologists--Florida--Biography.
Wildlife conservationists--Florida--Biography.
Gopher tortoise--Conservation--Florida.
Wildlife conservation--Florida.
Electronic Books.
QL31 / .F574 2019