| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
1 online resource (x, 235 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Integrative natural history series
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Integrative natural history series.
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| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Summary |
"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"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Note |
Series information from dust jacket. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Berish, Joan E., 1950-
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Zoologists -- Florida -- Biography.
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Zoologists. |
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Florida. |
| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| Subject |
Wildlife conservationists -- Florida -- Biography.
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Wildlife conservationists. |
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Gopher tortoise -- Conservation -- Florida.
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Gopher tortoise. |
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Wildlife conservation -- Florida.
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Wildlife conservation. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Autobiographies.
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Autobiographies.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Berish, Joan E. Fire and fauna. First edition. College Station : Texas A&M University Press, [2019] 9781623498313 (DLC) 2019021682 (OCoLC)1099947439 |
| ISBN |
9781623498320 (electronic book) |
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1623498325 (electronic book) |
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9781623498313 |
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1623498317 |
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