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The making of an ecologist : my career in Alaska wildlife management and conservation  Cover Image Book Book

The making of an ecologist : my career in Alaska wildlife management and conservation / David R. Klein ; edited by Karen Brewster.

Klein, David R., (author.). Brewster, Karen, (editor.).

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781602233911
  • ISBN: 1602233918
  • Physical Description: xxviii, 516 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm
  • Publisher: Fairbanks, Alaska : University of Alaska Press, [2019]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 489-503) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
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.
Subject: Klein, David R.
Wildlife management > Alaska.
Ecologists > Alaska > Biography.
Wildlife conservation > Alaska.
Natural history > Alaska.
Alaska > Environmental conditions.
Klein, David R.
Ecologists.
Ecology.
Natural history.
Wildlife conservation.
Wildlife management.
Alaska.
Genre: Biographies.

Available copies

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Homer Public Library.

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Homer Public Library AK 333.95 KLE (Text) 000153603 Alaskana -- Nonfiction Available -


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