North American elk : ecology and management / compiled and edited by Dale E. Toweill and Jack Ward Thomas ; technical editor, Richard E. McCabe ; original illustrations by Daniel P. Metz.
Edition:
1st ed.
Publisher:
Smithsonian Institution Press,
Copyright Date:
c2002
Description:
xxii, 962 p., [24] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps ; 29 cm.
"A Wildlife Management Institute book." Originally published: Elk of North America. Harrisburg, Pa. : Stackpole Books, c1982. Includes bibliographical references (p. 853-948) and index.
Contents:
Taxonomy / Bart W. O'Gara -- Distribution: past and present / Bart W. O'Gara and Robert G. Dundas -- Elk and Indians: then again / Richard E. McCabe -- Physical and physiological adaptations / Robert J. Hudson and Jerry C. Haigh with contributions by Anthony Bubenik -- Nutrition and food / John G. Cook -- Diseases and parasites / E. Tom Thorne ... [et al.] -- Adaptive behavioral strategies / Valerius Geist -- Elk interactions with other ungulates / William Miller -- Population characteristics / Kenneth J. Raedeke, Joshua J. Millspaugh and Patrick E. Clark -- Migration / Larry L. Irwin -- Elk and ecosystem management / Allen T. Cooperrider -- Elk habitat selection and evaluation / Jon M. Skovlin, Peter Zager and Bruce K. Johnson -- Elk and land management / Michael L. Wolfe, John F. Kimball Jr., and Gregory T.M. Schildwachter -- Supplemental feeding and farming of elk / James M. Peek ... [et al.] -- Hunting red deer and elk: old and new worlds / Bart W. O'Gara -- Recreational use of elk / S. Dwight Bunnell ... [et al.] -- Regulating the hunt / David H. Stalling, Gary J. Wolfe and Dan K. Crockett -- The future of elk and elk management / Dale E. Toweill and Jack Ward Thomas.
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