LEADER 02828nam 2200541 a 450 001 9910824711903321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-60223-121-4 035 $a(CKB)2560000000014998 035 $a(EBL)1820937 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000412559 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11268581 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000412559 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10369217 035 $a(PQKB)11446299 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1820937 035 $a(OCoLC)646068352 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)musev2_110910 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000014998 100 $a20080304d2008 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aBear wrangler $ememoirs of an Alaska pioneer biologist /$fWill Troyer 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aFairbanks $cUniversity of Alaska Press$dc2008 215 $a1 online resource (258 p.) 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a1-60223-043-9 327 $aChapter 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. 327 $aChapter 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. 330 $aBeginning 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. 606 $aBiologists$zAlaska$vBiography 606 $aNatural history$zAlaska 615 0$aBiologists 615 0$aNatural history 676 $a591.9798092 676 $aB 700 $aTroyer$b Will$g(Willard A.)$01757170 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910824711903321 996 $aBear wrangler$94194879 997 $aUNINA