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Record Nr.

UNINA9910458236703321

Autore

Troyer Will

Titolo

Bear Wrangler [[electronic resource] ] : Memoirs of an Alaska Pioneer Biologist

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Fairbanks, : University of Alaska Press, 2010

ISBN

1-60223-121-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (258 p.)

Disciplina

591.9798092

Soggetti

Biologists -- Alaska -- Biography

Natural history -- Alaska

Troyer, Will (Willard A.)

Biologists - Alaska

Natural history - Alaska

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Chapter 1: North to Alaska; Chapter 2: Summer on the Situk; Chapter 3: Sand Point Summer; Chapter 4: Wrangell Game Warden; Chapter 5: Fish Cop; Chapter 6: Adventures with Goats; Chapter 7: Sourdough Characters; Chapter 8: Romance in Juneau; Chapter 9: Kodiak Refuge Manager; Chapter 10: Wrangling Kodiak Bears; Chapter 11: Life at Camp Island; Chapter 12: Disaster at Tonki Cape; Chapter 13: Becoming a Bush Pilot; Chapter 14: Bear Surveys; Chapter 15: Managing the Kenai Refuge; Chapter 16: Building a Canoe System; Chapter 17: A Day in the Life of a Refuge Manager

Chapter 18: Working for Wilderness Chapter 19: The Remote Sea Islands; Chapter 20: Along the Arctic Coast; Chapter 21: The Firth River Valley; Chapter 22: Birds of the Delta; Chapter 23: Leaving the FWS; Chapter 24: Dart Guns at Katmai; Chapter 25: Turquoise Lake Calving Grounds; Chapter 26: Danger in Our Business; Index

Sommario/riassunto

<DIV><DIV> Beginning in 1951, Will Troyer embarked on a thirty-year career with the U.S. Department of the Interior that included positions such as fish and game warden and manager of the Kodiak Island brown bear preserve. Troyer's engaging prose affirms his passionate



connection to the natural world, as he describes experiences such as being in the midst of a herd of 40,000 caribou. <I>Bear Wrangler </I>is an absorbing tale of one man's experience as an authentic pioneer in the last vestiges of American wilderness.</DIV><DIV> </DIV></DIV>