Includes index. Series information from dust jacket.
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.
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.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.