And Then There Were None : The Demise of Desert Bighorn Sheep in the Pusch Ridge Wilderness / Paul R. Krausman; illustrations by Bethann Garramon Merkle; foreword by William W. Shaw.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Krausman, Paul R., 1946- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Desert bighorn sheep--Reintroduction--Arizona--Pusch Ridge Wilderness.

Desert bighorn sheep.

Desert bighorn sheep--Arizona--Pusch Ridge Wilderness--History.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (247 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Albuquerque, [New Mexico] : University of New Mexico Press, 2017.

Summary:

Once plentiful in the mountains of southern Arizona, by the 1990s desert bighorn sheep were wiped out in the Pusch Ridge Wilderness of the Santa Catalina Mountains as a result of habitat loss and alteration. This book uses their history and population decline as a case study in human alteration of wildlife habitat. When human encroachment had driven the herd to extinction, wildlife managers launched a major and controversial effort to reestablish this population. For more than forty years Paul R. Krausman directed studies of the Pusch Wilderness population of these iconic animals, located in the mountainous outskirts of Tucson. The story he tells here reveals the complex relationships between politics and biology in wildlife conservation. His account of the evolution of wildlife conservation practices includes discussions of techniques and of human attitudes toward predators, fire, and their management.

Contents:

Santa Catalina Mountain study area

Desert bighorn sheep : description, life history characteristics, and taxonomy

The desert bighorn sheep of Pusch Ridge Wilderness

Human intervention and management

The future of bighorn sheep in the Santa Catalina Mountains.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8263-5786-5

OCLC:

956584207