Fire and Fauna - Berish, Joan E
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"Wildlife biologist and gopher tortoise expert Joan E. Berish has spent her life studying and appreciating animals. From Fire to Fauna is a unique, educational, and often humorous memoir reflecting the life of a woman in the field of wildlife conservation and her associated escapades early in life and today. Berish recounts her eventful and sometimes absurd journey to become a wildlife researcher. Outrunning treetop flames, spending a night in jail with a threatened species, and surviving a stalled airplane engine while searching for a missing tortoise, Berish introduces readers to the…mehr

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"Wildlife biologist and gopher tortoise expert Joan E. Berish has spent her life studying and appreciating animals. From Fire to Fauna is a unique, educational, and often humorous memoir reflecting the life of a woman in the field of wildlife conservation and her associated escapades early in life and today. Berish recounts her eventful and sometimes absurd journey to become a wildlife researcher. Outrunning treetop flames, spending a night in jail with a threatened species, and surviving a stalled airplane engine while searching for a missing tortoise, Berish introduces readers to the adventures, triumphs, and heartbreaks that comprise a lifetime of working with animals, animals, both domestic and wild"--
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JOAN E. BERISH retired from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, where she served for over thirty-three years. She has written dozens of articles on and received numerous awards for her work on gopher tortoises, a threatened keystone species. She resides in Sandia Park, New Mexico.