02828nam 2200541 a 450 991082471190332120200520144314.01-60223-121-4(CKB)2560000000014998(EBL)1820937(SSID)ssj0000412559(PQKBManifestationID)11268581(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000412559(PQKBWorkID)10369217(PQKB)11446299(MiAaPQ)EBC1820937(OCoLC)646068352(MdBmJHUP)musev2_110910(EXLCZ)99256000000001499820080304d2008 ub 0engur|||||||nn|ntxtccrBear wrangler memoirs of an Alaska pioneer biologist /Will Troyer1st ed.Fairbanks University of Alaska Pressc20081 online resource (258 p.)Includes index.1-60223-043-9 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 Lifeof a Refuge Manager.Chapter 18: Working for WildernessChapter 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.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. Bear Wrangler is an absorbing tale of one man's experience as an authentic pioneer in the last vestiges of American wilderness.BiologistsAlaskaBiographyNatural historyAlaskaBiologistsNatural history591.9798092BTroyer Will(Willard A.)1757170MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910824711903321Bear wrangler4194879UNINA