The Wolves of Mount McKinley, by Adolph Murie,...
Author : Adolph Murie
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Page : 238 pages
File Size : 24,52 MB
Release : 1944
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Author : Adolph Murie
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Page : 238 pages
File Size : 24,52 MB
Release : 1944
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Author : Adolph Murie
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 16,73 MB
Release : 2011-12-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0295802693
In the time of Lewis and Clark, wolves were abundant throughout North America from the Arctic regions to Mexico. But man declared war on this cunning and powerful animal when cattle replaced the buffalo on the western plains, reducing the wolf’s range to those few areas in the Far North where economic necessity did not call for its extinction. Between 1939 and 1941, Adolph Murie, one of North America’s greatest naturalists, made a field study of the relationship between wolves and Dall sheep in Mount McKinley National Park (since renamed Denali National Park) which has come to be respected as a classic work of natural history. In this study Murie not only described the life cycle of Alaskan wolves in greater detail than has ever been done, but he discovered a great deal about the entire ecological network of predator and prey. The issues surrounding the survival of the wolf and its prey are more important today than ever, and Murie helps us understand the careful balance that must be maintained to ensure that these magnificent animals prosper. Originally available only in government publications which are long out-of-print, this account of a much maligned animal is now available in its first popular edition.
Author : Adolph Murie
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Page : 272 pages
File Size : 27,48 MB
Release : 1944
Category : Science
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Based on a field study of the ecological relationship between the timber wolf (Canis lupus pambasileus) and the Dall sheep (Ovis dalli dalli), 1934-41; includes sections on the ecology of the caribou, moose, grizzly bear, red fox (Vulpes kenaiensis), and golden eagle.
Author : Adolph Murie
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Page : pages
File Size : 42,76 MB
Release : 1985-07-01
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ISBN : 9785551343721
Author : Timothy Rawson
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Page : 354 pages
File Size : 22,29 MB
Release : 2001
Category : History
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In the 1930s, the National Park Service stopped killing wolves in Alaska's McKinley National Park, beginning a controversy over the value of predators and game animals which lasted for more than 20 years. In this volume, Rawson (history, Alaska Pacific U.) examines the history of this controversy and discusses the ways in which it continues to shape National Park Service policy. c. Book News Inc.
Author : Adolph Murie
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 10,74 MB
Release : 2018-12-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1789125235
The larger mammals of North America are known mostly to a few big game hunters, while the ordinary public observes them only in captivity or tamed. Very few students of ecology have ever lived with these animals in their native habitat—even fewer have written about them from an ecological viewpoint. In this respect, Adolph Murie is almost unique. This book concerns the domestic ways of the wildlife in Alaska, the grizzly bear, the wolf, the lynx, the wolverine, the Dall sheep, the caribou, and the Arctic fox. But even more fascinating than the life cycles of these creatures are their interrelationships—prey and predator maintaining a delicate balance in one of the few remaining wildernesses of this continent.
Author : Barry Holstun Lopez
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 38,14 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Gray wolf
ISBN : 0743249364
Author : George Melendez Wright
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Page : 166 pages
File Size : 42,57 MB
Release : 1933
Category : National parks and reserves
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Author : Kim Heacox
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 46,5 MB
Release : 2021-04-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1493049593
From Kim Heacox, the acclaimed author of The Only Kayak and John Muir and the Ice That Started a Fire, comes Rhythm of the Wild, an Alaska memoir focused on Denali National Park. Music runs through every page of this book, as do stories, rivers and wolves. At its heart, Rhythm of the Wild is a love story. It begins in 1981 and ends in 2014, yet reaches beyond the arc of time. Author and mountaineer Jonathan Waterman has called Heacox “our northern Edward Abbey.” In this book we find out why. We hitchhike with Kim through Idaho, camp on the Colorado Plateau, and fly off the sand cliffs of Hangman Creek with a little terrier named Super Max, the Wonder Dog. We meet Zed, the Aborigine; Nine Fingers, the blues guitarist; and Adolph Murie, the legendary wildlife biologist, who dared to say that wolves should be protected, not persecuted. Kim also reprises in this book his friend Richard Steele, a beloved character from The Only Kayak. Some books are larger than their actual subject—this is one. Part memoir, part exploration of Denali’s inspiring natural and human history, and part conservation polemic, Rhythm of the Wild ranges from funny to provocative. It’s a celebration of—and a plea to restore and defend—the vibrant earth and our rightful place in it.
Author : Stephen R. Swinburne
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 48,8 MB
Release : 2001-02
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0618111204
This book explores the long and troubled relationship between humans and wolves--from persecution to preservation. Full-color photos.