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Fire and fauna : tales of a life untamed / Joan E. Berish.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Publication details: College Station : Texas A&M University Press, (c)2019.Edition: First editionDescription: 1 online resource (x, 235 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781623498320
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • QL31 .F574 2019
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
Contents:
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.
Subject: "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"--
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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"--

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