Bear wrangler : memoirs of an Alaska pioneer biologist / Will Troyer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Troyer, Will (Willard A.)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Troyer, Will (Willard A.).

Troyer, Will.

Biologists--Alaska--Biography.

Biologists.

Natural history--Alaska.

Natural history.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (258 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Fairbanks : University of Alaska Press, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Beginning in 1951, Will Troyer embarked on a thirty-year career with the U.S. Department of the Interior that included positions such as fish and game warden and manager of the Kodiak Island brown bear preserve. Troyer's engaging prose affirms his passionate connection to the natural world, as he describes experiences such as being in the midst of a herd of 40,000 caribou. Bear Wrangler is an absorbing tale of one man's experience as an authentic pioneer in the last vestiges of American wilderness.

Contents:

Chapter 1: North to Alaska; Chapter 2: Summer on the Situk; Chapter 3: Sand Point Summer; Chapter 4: Wrangell Game Warden; Chapter 5: Fish Cop; Chapter 6: Adventures with Goats; Chapter 7: Sourdough Characters; Chapter 8: Romance in Juneau; Chapter 9: Kodiak Refuge Manager; Chapter 10: Wrangling Kodiak Bears; Chapter 11: Life at Camp Island; Chapter 12: Disaster at Tonki Cape; Chapter 13: Becoming a Bush Pilot; Chapter 14: Bear Surveys; Chapter 15: Managing the Kenai Refuge; Chapter 16: Building a Canoe System; Chapter 17: A Day in the Lifeof a Refuge Manager.

Chapter 18: Working for WildernessChapter 19: The Remote Sea Islands; Chapter 20: Along the Arctic Coast; Chapter 21: The Firth River Valley; Chapter 22: Birds of the Delta; Chapter 23: Leaving the FWS; Chapter 24: Dart Guns at Katmai; Chapter 25: Turquoise Lake Calving Grounds; Chapter 26: Danger in Our Business; Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

9781602231214

1602231214

OCLC:

646068352