Berish, Joan E., <br/><br/>
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 .
<br/><br/> Series information from dust jacket. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> "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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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781623498320 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Berish, Joan E., 1950- 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Zoologists--Florida--Biography.<br/>Wildlife conservationists--Florida--Biography.<br/>Gopher tortoise--Conservation--Florida.<br/>Wildlife conservation--Florida.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>QL31  / .F574 2019