The Mountain and The Goat
Author : Siamak Taghaddos
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 18,1 MB
Release : 2024-02-12
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781734246469
Author : Siamak Taghaddos
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 18,1 MB
Release : 2024-02-12
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781734246469
Author :
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 11,51 MB
Release : 2002-02-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780803264212
"In North America there is one large animal that belongs almost entirely to the realm of towering rock and unmelting snow. Pressing hard against the upper limit of life's possibilities, it exists higher and steeper throughout the year than any other big beast on the continent. It is possibly the best and most complete mountaineer that ever existed on any continent. Oreamnos americanus is its scientific name. Its common name is mountain goat." Resourceful, belligerent, and unbelievably sure-footed, the mountain goat is a white-coated survivor from the Ice Age. Oreamnos americanus shares its dizzying alpine world with elk, eagles, bighorn sheep, and grizzlies. This first full-length book on the mountain goat offers a superbly written portrait of its life, habits, and environment. Douglas H. Chadwick tracked mountain goat herds for seven years, and his observations are richly textured and replete with fascinating and dramatic details. We learn of the mountain goats' lives from birth to adulthood, their feeding habits, unique social behavior and courtship rituals, and their long history. Chadwick also makes clear the troubling and escalating impact of the modern world on the mountain goat's wilderness home. This Bison Books edition features a new introduction by the author.
Author : Marco Festa-Bianchet
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 48,9 MB
Release : 2012-09-26
Category : Science
ISBN : 1597267732
Mountain goats have been among the least studied of North American ungulates, leaving wildlife managers with little information on which to base harvest strategies or conservation plans. This book offers the first comprehensive assessment of the ecology and behavior of mountain goats, setting forth the results of a remarkable 16-year longitudinal study of more than 300 marked individuals in a population in Alberta, Canada. The authors’ thorough, long-term study allowed them to draw important conclusions about mountain goat ecology—including individual reproductive strategies, population dynamics, and sensitivity to human disturbance—and to use those conclusions in offering guidance for developing effective conservation strategies. Chapters examine: -habitat use, vegetation quality, and seasonal movements -sexual segregation and social organization -individual variability in yearly and lifetime reproductive success of females -age- and sex-specific survival and dispersal -reproductive strategies and population dynamics -management and conservation of mountain goats The book also draws on the rich literature on long-term monitoring of marked ungulates to explore similarities and differences between mountain goats and other species, particularly bighorn sheep and ibex. By monitoring a marked population over a long period of time, researchers were able to document changes in sex-age structure and identify factors driving population dynamics. Because it explores the links between individual life-history strategy and population dynamics in a natural setting, Mountain Goats will be an invaluable resource for wildlife managers, researchers in ecology and animal behavior, conservationists, population biologists, and anyone concerned with the ecology and management of natural populations, especially in alpine environments.
Author : David Vann
Publisher : Random House
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 43,75 MB
Release : 2013-10-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 144813479X
A shocking, suspenseful and daring new novel from one of the greatest American writers at work today, whose previous books include Caribou Island, Dirt and Legend of a Suicide. In David Vann’s searing novel Goat Mountain, an eleven-year-old boy is eager to make his first kill at his family’s annual deer hunt. But all is not as it should be. His father discovers a poacher on the land, a 640-acre ranch in Northern California, and shows him to the boy through the scope of his rifle. With this simple gesture, tragedy erupts, shattering lives irrevocably. Set over the course of one hot and hellish weekend, Goat Mountain is the story of a family struggling to contend with a terrible crime and its repercussions. David Vann creates a haunting and provocative novel that explores our most primal urges and beliefs, the bonds of blood and religion that define and secure us, and the consequences of our actions – what we owe for what we’ve done.
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Publisher : Farcountry Press
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 34,4 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781560374725
Harada treks to the far reaches of Glacier National Park to document its iconic wild animal, the mountain goat. Harada has spent the last eighteen years studying and photographing these agile creatures, capturing rare and awe-inspiring images in each of Glacier's spectacular seasons. Experience the dramas that play out on the Park's knife-edge peaks among the Mountain Goats of Glacier National Park. Biologist and writer Kathleen Yale lends her sensitive and insightful writing to the book, detailing the fascinating behaviors of these unique animals, from the bliss of spring to the challenges of winter.
Author : John Darnielle
Publisher : MCD
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 19,38 MB
Release : 2022-01-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0374717672
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “It’s never quite the book you think it is. It’s better.” —Dwight Garner, The New York Times From John Darnielle, the New York Times bestselling author and the singer-songwriter of the Mountain Goats, comes an epic, gripping novel about murder, truth, and the dangers of storytelling. Gage Chandler is descended from kings. That’s what his mother always told him. Years later, he is a true crime writer, with one grisly success—and a movie adaptation—to his name, along with a series of subsequent less notable efforts. But now he is being offered the chance for the big break: to move into the house where a pair of briefly notorious murders occurred, apparently the work of disaffected teens during the Satanic Panic of the 1980s. Chandler finds himself in Milpitas, California, a small town whose name rings a bell––his closest childhood friend lived there, once upon a time. He begins his research with diligence and enthusiasm, but soon the story leads him into a puzzle he never expected—back into his own work and what it means, back to the very core of what he does and who he is. Devil House is John Darnielle’s most ambitious work yet, a book that blurs the line between fact and fiction, that combines daring formal experimentation with a spellbinding tale of crime, writing, memory, and artistic obsession.
Author : Lindsay Shaffer
Publisher : Bellwether Media
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 13,53 MB
Release : 2019-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 161891555X
No one climbs mountains like a mountain goat can! These nimble-footed critters easily scale steep slopes. Beginning readers will learn all about the adaptations that help mountain goats flourish in their rocky biome, from hard hooves to shaggy fur. Features including diet sidebars and range map support and add clarity to the text in this colorful, informative title.
Author : Debbie M. Ketel
Publisher : Mount Rushmore History Asso
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 14,72 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Mountain goat
ISBN : 9780975261736
Using rhyming text, teaches counting from one to ten with factual information about mountain goats in the side panels, in a book with pictures hidden beneath the flaps. On board pages.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 10,85 MB
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781560375449
Follows mountain goat babies as they play, climb, and rest.
Author : Duncan Gilchrist
Publisher : Pictorial Histories Publishing Company
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 24,91 MB
Release : 1983-01-01
Category : Mountain goat hunting
ISBN : 9780933126367