Fire and Fauna - Tales of a Life Untamed

"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"--

About the author

JOAN E. BERISH retired from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, where she served for over thirty-three years. She has written dozens of articles on and received numerous awards for her work on gopher tortoises, a threatened keystone species. She resides in Sandia Park, New Mexico.

Summary

Wildlife biologist and gopher tortoise expert Joan Berish has spent her life studying and appreciating animals. Fire and 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.

Product details

• Authors: Joan E Berish, Joan E. Berish
• Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2019
• EAN: 9781623498313
• ISBN: 978-1-62349-831-3
• No. of pages: 250
• Dimensions: 163 mm x 236 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 544 g
• Series: Integrative Natural History Se; Integrative Natural History Series, sponsored by Texas Research Institute for Environmental Studies, Sam Houston State University
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; Biografien: allgemein, Biologie, Biowissenschaften, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, Biography / Autobiography, SCIENCE / Natural History, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Environmentalists & Naturalists