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Mice in the freezer, owls on the porch : the lives of naturalists Frederick & Frances Hamerstrom / Helen McGavran Corneli ; foreword by George Archibald.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Corneli, Helen M.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hamerstrom, Frederick.
- Hamerstrom, Frances, 1907-1998.
- Hamerstrom, Frances.
- Naturalists--United States--Biography.
- Naturalists.
- United States.
- Conservationists--United States--Biography.
- Conservationists.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 347 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, [2002]
- Contents:
- 2 The Complexities of Childhood 13
- 3 Self-Discovery and Love 34
- 4 Students, Teachers, and New Horizons 53
- 5 Conservation Beginnings in a Midwestern Appalachia 67
- 6 Enter Leopold and the Chickens 88
- 7 An Interruption: World War II 110
- 8 The Action: Postwar Scientific Solidarity 119
- 9 The Return: Deer and a Decision 132
- 10 The Setting, the Task 142
- 11 Booming Chickens and a Land Boom 157
- 12 The Prairie Chicken War 181
- 13 Hamerstroms' Kingdom: The Complexities of Success 194
- 14 A Naturalist Family 208
- 15 Of Hawks, Humans, and Freedom 227
- 16 Free at Last 248
- 17 The Making of a Legend 265
- 18 Death of a Biologist 282
- 19 Fran 290.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0299180905
- 0299180948
- OCLC:
- 49260089
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