The making of an ecologist : my career in Alaska wildlife management and conservation /
David R. Klein
Bok · Engelsk · 2019
| Omfang | xviii, 516 pages : : illustrations, maps ;
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| Opplysninger | Early influences -- A childhood outdoors during turbulent times -- Time in the woods -- Discovering Alaska, discovering self -- Entrée into ecological fieldwork -- Falling in love with the Alpine -- Deer ecology and management in southeast rainforests -- Research -- The St. Matthew Islands : challenging conventional ecological wisdom -- Leading the Alaska cooperative wildlife research unit and mentoring graduate students -- Wildlife reactions to oil development -- Ungulate research across the circum-arctic -- Soviet-U.S. détente exchanges in arctic ecology -- Expanding horizons beyond the Arctic -- Managing wildlife in Alaska : territorial days, statehood, and the era of big oil -- Not quite retired : staying connected to science -- The human perspective -- Walking in the footsteps of Aldo Leopold : a scientific legacy -- Ethical considerations in caribou management -- Valuing northern lands -- Defining the wilderness concept -- Environmental philosophy: people and the environment -- Hunting ethics and the morality of hunting -- On being objective -- Alaska's people, economics, and resources.
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| ISBN | 9781602233911 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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