TY  - BOOK
AU  - Berish,Joan E.
TI  - Fire and fauna: tales of a life untamed 
T2  - Integrative natural history series
SN  - 9781623498320
AV  - QL31 .F574 2019
PY  - 2019///
CY  - College Station
PB  - Texas A&M University Press
KW  - Berish, Joan E.,
KW  - Zoologists
KW  - Florida
KW  - Biography
KW  - Wildlife conservationists
KW  - Gopher tortoise
KW  - Conservation
KW  - Wildlife conservation
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - Series information from dust jacket; 2; 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; 2; b
N2  - "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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