Thinking like a mountain : Aldo Leopold and the evolution of an ecological attitude toward deer, wolves, and forests / Susan L. Flader.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Flader, Susan.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ecology--United States--History.

Ecology.

Wildlife management--United States--History.

Wildlife management.

Ecologists--United States--Biography.

Ecologists.

Wildlife management--United States--Biography.

Deer.

Leopold, Aldo, 1887-1948.

Leopold, Aldo.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (318 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Madison, WI : University of Wisconsin Press, [1994], c1974.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

When initially published more than twenty years ago, Thinking Like a Mountain was the first of a handful of efforts to capture the work and thought of America's most significant environmental thinker, Aldo Leopold. This new edition of Susan Flader's masterful account of Leopold's philosophical journey, including a new preface reviewing recent Leopold scholarship, makes this classic case study available again and brings much-deserved attention to the continuing influence and importance of Leopold today. Thinking Like a Mountain unfolds with Flader's close analysis of Leopold's essay of the same title, which explores issues of predation by studying the interrelationships between deer, wolves, and forests. Flader shows how his approach to wildlife management and species preservation evolved from his experiences restoring the deer population in the Southwestern United States, his study of the German system of forest and wildlife management, and his efforts to combat the overpopulation of deer in Wisconsin. His own intellectual development parallels the formation of the conservation movement, reflecting his struggle to understand the relationship between the land and its human and animal inhabitants. Drawing from the entire corpus of Leopold's works, including published and unpublished writing, correspondence, field notes, and journals, Flader places Leopold in his historical context. In addition, a biographical sketch draws on personal interviews with family, friends, and colleagues to illuminate his many roles as scientist, philosopher, citizen, policy maker, and teacher. Flader's insight and profound appreciation of the issues make Thinking Like a Mountain a standard source for readers interested in Leopold scholarship and the development of ecology and conservation in the twentieth century.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Preface: 1994

Preface

Acknowledgments

1. Thinking Like a Mountain

Evolution and Ecology

Aldo Leopold as Forester-Conservationist

The Wisconsin Years

Toward an Ecological Philosophy

2. Southwestern Game Fields

Diversity and Dissolution

The Virgin Southwest and What the White Man Has Done to It

Game Protection: The Cause

Game Management: The Science

Southwestern Deer and the Concept of Productivity

3. The Gila Experience

The Gila as Normal Range

Black Canyon and the Kaibab

Deer, Wolves, Wilderness, and Roads

Vagaries of Herd Reduction

The Deer-Environment Equation

4. Means and Ends: The 1930s

Wisconsin Deer and Deer Policy

Deer and Dauerwald

Chequamegon and Chihuahua: The Changing Image

Rockford and Huron Mountain

Transmutation of Values

5. Too Many Deer

The Public Problem

Forebodings

The Challenge of the Kaibab

Selling a New Idea

Commissioner Leopold and the "Crime of ' 43"

6. Adventures of a Conservation Commissioner

Responsibility in a Crisis

Wolves, Coyotes, and People

Policy and Public Opinion

Defining the Public Interest

Ecology and Irruptions

1948: Denouement

Epilogue

What Happened in Wisconsin?

Ecology and Ethics

Bibliographical Note

Index.

Notes:

Originally published: Columbia : University of Missouri Press, 1974. With new pref.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 272-276) and index.

ISBN:

9786612555343

9781282555341

1282555340

9780299145033

0299145034

OCLC:

615635587