Early influences. Learning to love the outdoors ; 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 Circumarctic ; Soviet-US 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 : essays by David Klein. 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. |