Fire and fauna : tales of a life untamed / Joan E. Berish.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Berish, Joan E., 1950- author.

Series:

Integrative natural history series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Berish, Joan E., 1950-.

Berish, Joan E.

Zoologists--Florida--Biography.

Zoologists.

Wildlife conservationists--Florida--Biography.

Wildlife conservationists.

Gopher tortoise--Conservation--Florida.

Gopher tortoise.

Wildlife conservation--Florida.

Wildlife conservation.

Florida.

Genre:

Biographies.

Autobiographies.

Physical Description:

x, 235 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates ; 25 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

College Station : Texas A&M University Press, [2019]

Summary:

"Wildlife biologist and gopher tortoise expert Joan E. Berish has spent her life studying and appreciating animals. From Fire to Fauna is a unique, educational, and often humorous memoir reflecting the life of a woman in the field of wildlife conservation and her associated escapades early in life and today. Berish recounts her eventful and sometimes absurd journey to become a wildlife researcher. Outrunning treetop flames, spending a night in jail with a threatened species, and surviving a stalled airplane engine while searching for a missing tortoise, Berish introduces readers to the adventures, triumphs, and heartbreaks that comprise a lifetime of working with animals, animals, both domestic and wild"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Part 1. Evolution of a "wild biologist": Child of the fields and forests

A horse, a horse: my kingdom (lunch money) for a horse

Would dog bite (mail) woman?

Going nuclear at the Veterans Administration

Canines and felines and...Willie Nelson?

Whirlybirds and conflagrations: My summer as a helitack firefighter

Part 2. Metamorphosis: from snake lady to gopher queen: Indigo daze: The snake lady goes down to Georgia

Ancient dunes, black holes, and burrowing turtles

A new life partner and many more moons of gopher wrangling

Rattlers and softshells and bears, oh my!

Canines in conservation and in my heart

Part 3. Modifications to my home range, both temporary and permanent: Misadventures on desert trails and high seas

My return to the land of enchantment.

Notes:

Includes index.

Series information from dust jacket.

ISBN:

9781623498313

1623498317

OCLC:

1099947439

Publisher Number:

40029538735